Grants and Awards

2022

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten was awarded an Israel Science Foundation Grant for her project “From the “House of life” to Communal Profiles: Tombstones, Cemeteries, and Daily Life in Medieval Ashkenaz.”

♦ Dr. Eyal Levinson was awarded a book publishing support grant from the World Union of Jewish Studies (HUIJ).

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2021

♦ Dr. Neta Bodner accepted the position of lecturer in the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts at the Open University of Israel, Ra’anana.

Dr. Andreas Lehnertz received the 2020 Ephraim Elimelech Urbach Postdoctoral Award from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York).

Aviya Doron was selected as a graduate fellow for the Azrieli Foundation Fellows Program for the years 2021-2024. 

♦ Dr. Andreas Lehnertz was selected for the Martin Buber Society Fellowship, Hebrew University, for the years 2020-2024.

 Dr. Neta Bodner was awarded a Massada Fellowship from Worcester College, University of Oxford.

♦ Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten was elected as a member of the Council of the Medieval Academy of America (2021-2024).

♦ Nureet Dermer and Aviya Doron received the Kurt Grunwald Fund research grant from the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, HUJI.

♦ Albert Kohn received the Kalman Fund Grant for the Study of French Jewry for the year of 2021.

♦ Amit Shafran was awarded a graduate scholarship from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Department of History for the year 2020.

♦ Hannah Teddy Schachter wasawarded a President’s Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Faculty of Humanities (2021-2024) (HUJI), and a fellowship for 2021-2022 from The Israel Ministry of Absorption; the Robert Solomon Wistrich Prize given by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-semitism (HUJI) and the Solomon and Penny Balaban-Glass Doctoral Prize for Excellence as well as an additional Excellence Scholarship by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (HUJI).

♦ Amit Shafran was granted a scholarship for her M.A. studies by the Solomon and Penny Balaban-Glass Foundation by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (HUJI).

♦ Nureet Dermer received the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture doctoral scholarship (for the academic year 2021-2022); the Solomon and Penny Balaban-Glass Doctoral Prize for Excellence from the Jack, Joseph andMorton Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (HUJI) (for the academic years 2020-2021 and 2021-2022); and the 2021 Mendoza Prize for Excellent Doctoral Students awarded by the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry (HUJI).

♦ Dr. Eyal Levinson was awarded the Solomon and Penny Balaban-Glass Award in Jewish Studies for outstanding post-doctoral researchers by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies (HUJI).

♦ Albert Kohn was awarded the 2020-2021 Solomon and PennyBalaban-Glass Doctoral Prize for Excellence by the Jack, Joseph an Morton Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies (HUJI) and received a five-year fellowship to Princeton University’s History Department.

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2020

 Dr. Andreas Lehnertz was the recipient of the 2020 Ephraim Elimelech Urbach Postdoctoral Award from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (New York).

 Aviya Doron was awarded an Aron Menczer Fund research grant from the Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University. 

Nureet Dermer received the Paul Demarais Center for the Study of French Culture Award for excellent doctoral students by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s European Forum.

 Aviya Doron was awarded the Mendoza Prize by the Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University. 

 Albert Kohn was awarded the Nachson Fellowship.

♦ Hannah (Teddy) Schachter was awarded the Szloma Album Fellowship.

♦ Amit Shafran was awarded the Mandel MA Fellowship, Hebrew University.

♦ Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay received The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Fund book publishing grant, the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University

 Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay was awarded the Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

 Aviya Doron has been selected for the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2019-20.

 Adi Namia-Cohen has been selected as a PhD fellow for the Scholion research group for the years 2019-2022-  "Setting Tables: Eating, Social Boundaries and Intercultural Transfers".

 Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay was awarded the Kreitmann post doctoral fellowship at the department of Jewish History in Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

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2019

 Ariella Lehmann was awarded the Erich and Otto Dov Kulka prize for her M.A. thesis.

Dr. Neta Bodner received an outstanding teacher award from the department of Art History at the Hebrew University.

Miri Fenton has received a doctoral grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

 Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay has received the Warburg post-doctoral Prize, awarded by the Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies.

Dr. Neta Bodner has received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Hebrew University.

Miri Fenton has received the Nathan Rotenstreich doctoral grant, awarded by The Council for Higher Education.

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2018

Nureet Dermer has recieved the Gerstenfeld-Wolf Prize, awarded by the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, for her M.A. thesis.

Etelle Kalaora has recieved a scholarship for language exchange program at the University of Vienna from the Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University.

 Adi Namia-Cohen has recieved the Leon & Rose Barber Memorial Excellence Scholarship for M.A. students.

Dr. Neta Bodner has recieved the Rothschild Fellowship, awarded by Yad Hanadiv Foundation. 

Nureet Dermer has received the Kurt Grunwald Prize for her M.A. thesis.

Adi Namia-Cohen has received a scholarship financed by the Israel Science Foundation for a research project directed by Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz.

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten was appointed as the 2017-2018 George William Cottrell Jr. Member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Miri Fenton has been selected for the Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the academic year 2017-18.

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2017

 Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay has received the 2017 Leo Baeck Institute Post-Doctoral Prize for his doctoral dissertation titled Well-Poisoning Accusations in Medieval Europe: 1250-1500.

 Miri Fenton has received the Dr. Elka Klein Memorial Travel Grant.

 Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten is a recipient of the 2016 Michael Bruno Memorial Award presented by the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies. The Bruno Awards are presented each year to Israeli scholars and scientists who display exceptional promise, and whose achievements to date suggest future breakthroughs in their respective fields. See 2016 Bruno Awards

 Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay has received the 2017 Robert Wistrich Prize, granted by the Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, for his doctoral dissertation.

 Miri Fenton has received the 2017 Ministry of Absorption Matching Grant for Doctoral student.

 Etelle Kalaora has received the Prof. Yaakov Talmon Prize for M.A. Students. 

 Adi Namia-Cohen has received the Instiute of Jewish Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Excellence Scholarship.

♦ Ariella Lehman has received the Revivim program's Scholarship for teachers' training in Jewish Studies, and the Mandel Scholarship for M.A. students in Humanities.   

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2016

 Miri Fenton has received the 2016 Ministry of Absorption Matching Grant for Doctoral student.