Awards and recognition for Jewish Studies affiliates

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievements of Taube Center alumni, postdoctoral scholars, visiting scholars, and graduate students. Congratulations!

Rebecca Glasberg

Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Award for a Translation of a Literary Work

Reinhard Postdoctoral Scholar in Jewish Studies, Rebecca Glasberg, has received recognition from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for translations included in her edited volume A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean (UC Press, 2023). The book, edited and annotated by Glasberg, brings together stories of Jewish writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world. Glasberg will attend the annual MLA convention in New Orleans in January to accept the award.

Annie Atura and Ashley Walters

Jewish Women’s Archive, Winter Book Club Picks

Stanford Jewish Studies alumni Annie Atura (PhD, English, 2019) and Ashley Walters (PhD, History, 2018) have been recognized by the Jewish Women’s Archive for their edited volume, Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History (Wayne State UP, 2024). The volume revisits and reframes Jewish women’s literary contributions to American literary culture. Atura is the Executive Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford and Walters is a professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston.

In the fall 2024 quarter alone, Israel’s three most prestigious literary awards all went to Stanford affiliates.

Maya Arad

The Neumann Prize

Taube Center Writer-in-Residence Maya Arad received the Neumann Prize for a lifetime of achievement in Hebrew Literature, awarded by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This is the only major Israeli prize offered to Hebrew writers living in the diaspora, a feature of Arad's work as she was recently described as, "the finest living author writing in Hebrew is in exile." Arad's The Hebrew Teacher recently made waves with its English translation and we look forward to her forthcoming novel, Happy New Years. The Hebrew edition will be published January 1, 2025 and it will be available in English in August 2025.

Ariel Horowitz

The Levi Eshkol Literary Award

Advanced graduate student Ariel Horowitz has received the Levi Eshkol Literary Award for excellence in Hebrew literary writing. Horowitz’s novel, The Ghost Editor (עורך צללים), is a bestseller in Israel and an English excerpt will be featured in the Jewish Review of Books in January 2025. Horowitz will also offer a public reading from his novel as part of the celebration of the life and work of Israeli editor, Amatziah Porat on February 12, 2025.

Omer Waldman

Early Career Prize in Poetry

In fall 2024, the Taube Center was pleased to host a visiting student researcher, Omer Waldman, who has recently been awarded the Early Career Prize in Poetry from the Minister of Culture in Israel. His most recent book of poetry, Episodes of Tehilla (פרקי תהילה), was published in 2024.