Zipperstein and Jewish Studies Alumnae win 2014 National Jewish Book Awards

 

Jewish Studies is proud to announce that one of our faculty members and two of our alumnae took home awards at the 2014 National Jewish Book Awards.

 

We would like to congratulate faculty member, Steven J. Zipperstein, for winning the National Jewish Book of the Year Award for 2014, together with Anita Shapira, for their work as series editors of Yale University Press's Jewish Lives Series.

We would also like to congratulate our alumnae Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Stein for winning the National Jewish Book Award in "Sephardic Culture" for their co-edited book Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford University Press).

Cohen was also awarded the National Jewish Book Award in "Writing Based on Archival Material" for her book Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (Oxford University Press).

For more information about the National Jewish Book Awards and for a full list of winners, please visit their website.