The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Harry and Cecile Starr Prizes in Jewish Studies.
- Julia Maria Tellides, 1st place, “Defending ‘the Jerusalem of the Balkans’: Resilience and Disempowerment in Interwar Jewish Thessaloniki” (senior thesis)
- Roy Farrell Ginsberg, 1st place, “Building the Ratn-Farband: Monumentalizing the Soviet Utopian Project through Yiddish Art and Literature” (doctoral dissertation)
- Terry Curt Iles, 1st place, “The Compositional Poetics of the Book of Isaiah’s Nations Cycle: Recursive Symmetry and Analogy in Isaiah 13–27” (doctoral dissertation)
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.