The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
- Julia Maria Tellides, 1st place, “The Failure of Minority Rights in Thessaloniki: Sunday Closing Law of 1924”
- Shira Zoe Hoffer, 2nd place, “Maimonides as a Contextual Darshan”
- Serena Frances Jampel, 3rd place, “’I am the Jewish King Lear:’ Adapting Shakespeare for The Immigrant Experience”
- Kristin Brewster King, 3rd place, “A Brief Feminist History of Autism”
Honorable mention
- Zeynep Rose Bromberg, “Black Suffering in Yiddish Literature as a Site for Jewish Moral Quandary”
- Lauren Abigail Perl, “Intergenerational Revisionist Zionist Activism: The Varied Legacies of the Sakarya Mission”
- Isaac Rifkind Mansell, “The Price of Patriotism: Dual Loyalty and the American Jewish Soldier in World War II”
The Weinstein Prize, which is given to the Harvard University student(s) who submits the best undergraduate essay in Jewish studies, was established by Lewis H. Weinstein ’27, LL.B. 1930.