Congratulations to Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Winners

Dec 12, 2014

YIVO congratulates this year’s Jordan Schnitzer Book Award winners. The annual prizes are awarded by Association for Jewish Studies every December to honor outstanding scholarship in Jewish Studies.

This year’s roster of winners includes two scholars who have used YIVO’s Archives and Library as research resources and who have appeared as speakers at YIVO programs and events this past year:

REBECCA KOBRIN, Columbia University
Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora (Indiana University Press)

Watch a video of Professor Kobrin participating in the panel, “Rethinking Jabotinsky” (June 2, 2014)

JAMES LOEFFLER, University of Virginia
The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire(Yale University Press)

Watch a video of a lecture by Professor Loeffler, “Open Secret: The Jewish Sound in Soviet Music” (May 4, 2014)