The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) has announced its winners of the annual Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. Launched in 2008, the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards are the first annual book award program to be offered by AJS, made possible by funding from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation of Portland, Oregon. These awards recognize and promote outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies and honor scholars whose work embodies the best in the field: rigorous research, theoretical sophistication, innovative methodology, and excellent writing. The awards are structured to recognize all areas of Jewish Studies research, paying tribute to both the breadth and depth of AJS members’ scholarship.
Please join us in congratulating this year's winners:
In the Category of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity
What's Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspectives
CHRISTINE HAYES, Yale University
(Princeton University Press)
In the Category of Jews and the Arts (Visual, Performance, Music)
Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History
ASSAF SHELLEG, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
(Oxford University Press)
In the Category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel
Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771–1789
JAY R. BERKOVITZ, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(Brill)
In the Category of Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France
KIMBERLY A. ARKIN, Boston University
(Stanford University Press)
The Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards recipients will be celebrated in a ceremony on Sunday, December 18, 2016, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel.
For more information and a full list of finalists and honorable mentions, visit the AJS website.