Day: June 20, 2024

This year, the Center for Jewish Studies awarded three students with the Harry and Cecile Starr Prize in Jewish Studies. The Prize is by faculty member nomination only, for an outstanding senior thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in Jewish and Hebrew studies by a Harvard student. Best dissertation in the field of Jewish and Hebrew Studies…

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is pleased to share the abstracts for the winning essays of the 2024 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies: Julia Maria Tellides ’24 First Place “The Failure of Minority Rights in Thessaloniki: Sunday Closing Law of 1924” Abstract:For centuries, all trade seemed to halt on…