Prizes awarded for Jewish studies
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard announced the recipients of the 2012 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2012 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies. Samuel Evan Milner ’13 won the Podhoretz Prize for his essay, “To Exercise Firm Leadership: Conservative Judaism’s Directives on Civil Rights,” and Daniel Joseph Frim ’14 won for his essay, “The ‘Folk,’ Folk Knowledge, and Folk Wisdom as Discursive Categories in the Babylonian Talmud.” Leah Reis-Dennis ’13 and Yair Rosenberg ’12 both won this year’s Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies. Reis-Dennis’ entry was “Halfway to Respectability: A Jewish Prostitute in the Progressive Era U.S.” and Rosenberg’s entry was “Einstein and the Rabbi – Conversations with Chaim Tchernowitz on the Talmud and Zionism.”