CJS announces recipients of 2023 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies.

  • Caleb Kimball King, 1st place, “What Sounding Alike Sounded Like”
  • Ezra Lebovitz, 1st place,  “An Aesthetics of Refusal: Polyvocality, absence, and the resistant text in Nightwood and Opgang
  • Sabrina Paris Goldfischer, 2nd place, “The Death of Discourse: Antisemitism at Harvard College”

Starr Prizes are awarded in each of the following categories: the best doctoral dissertation in Jewish and Hebrew Studies and the best dissertation in the field of Jewish and Hebrew Studies prepared by an undergraduate. It was established by Harry Starr ’21, LL.B. 1924. This prize is eligible by nomination of a faculty member only.