The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program offers two awards to support travel and research. The Stulman award is granted on a competitive basis to undergraduate and graduate students proposing a worthy plan of study or research that requires material support. The John Koren Award for Holocaust Research and Education is granted annually to a student researching the Shoah. Recipients of the John Koren Award will be expected to make a public presentation of their reserach results at some point during the year of their award. Awards are given in the late Spring to support research over the following summer and academic year. The maximum for both awards is $2,500. The Prize Teaching Fellowships are intended for graduate students who can devise and teach an undergraduate course related to an area of Jewish Studies.
Recipients of the 2007 Stulman Jewish Studies Research Grant Patryk Babiracki Graduate Student
Department of History Patryk will use the award to travel to Warsaw, Poland and research the role of anti-Semitism in Soviet-Polish relations between 1945 and 1960. He proposes to carry out a three-month research project in Warsaw, Poland, directly related to his doctoral dissertation, currently in progress. In his dissertation he studies the Soviet authorities' efforts to engage Polish citizens in a common imperial project between 1945 and 1960. The Jewish question figured prominently in the process. On the one hand, individuals of Jewish background became a visible presence in the communist apparatus after the war, at the same time Jews were being persecuted in the Soviet Union. On the other hand many innocent Jews were subjected to discrimination and violence by ethnic Poles who mistakenly blamed all Jews for Sovietizing Poland. During the course of the project, he will explore the different ways in which anti-Semitism meshed with national traditions, politics and other processes of empire building in postwar Poland and in the Soviet Union. Rachel Cylus Undergraduate Student History Major Her research will include participation in the 2007 Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish at Vilnius University. There she will spend a month studying and speaking yiddish. In addition she will use the digital archives of Yiddish interviews conducted by Professor Dovid Katz to research Post World War II Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe. Her interests surround ideas of community and language use for Post Holocaust and Cold War Yiddish speakers in Eastern Europe. Andrew Davis Graduate Student Department of Near Eastern Studies His research project seeks to investigate some of the religious practices that were foundational in the development of ancient Judaism. Focusing in particular on the religious history of Tel Dan, he will combine detailed study of selected texts from the Hebrew Bible with analysis of the artifacts recovered from Dan’s temple area. The archaeological aspect of this research will be conducted in Jerusalem under the direction of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology and the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research. Andrew Devereux Graduate Student Department of History Andrew will travel to Avila, Spain, this summer in order to attend an intensive course in late medieval and early modern paleography offered by the Fundacion Sanchez Albornoz. He intends to apply the skills he learns towards editing for publication an unusual and little-known Spanish chronicle, La Suma de los Reyes de Castilla. The chronicle, composed in 1492 or 1493, offers a unique depiction of Jewish history in the Iberian Peninsula as well as a critique of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain for having expelled the Jews from their lands in 1492. The chronicle was apparently composed in Italy and was dedicated to the King of Naples, who offered asylum to many Spanish Jews following the expulsion. As its date of composition closely follows the tumultuous events of 1492, this chronicle represents an important source for the study of Jewish history in the Mediterranean World. Andrew believes that the paleography course in Spain will be of great assistance in determining more about the provenance and authorship of this unusual chronicle and in preparing a modern edition for publication, a step that will make the text accessible to a much broader audience of students and scholars. Uri Shachar Graduate Student Department of History This award will be used to study attitudes of late medieval Christian and Ashkenazi Jews toward the use of the 'Ordeal' as a legal and religious practice – primarily the hesitance of both Christians and Jews to have the latter take part in it. The term 'Ordeal' refers to a wide variety of practices and rituals, which both assume and prescribe God's immanent intervention in the world – one that necessarily manifests itself upon the physical body of the central participant. Through reading document relating the banning, forcing or actual participation of Jews in ordeals, this research aims to dwell upon the way commentators of both communities conceptualized, in this context, the modes of operation of both the Christian and the Jewish body". Recipient of the 2007 John Koren Award Patrice Hutton Undergraduate Student History Major Patrice will examine Holocaust education mandates in the United Kingdom, Austria, and Germany as a means of encouraging the United States to bolster the inclusion of Holocaust education in their social studies curricula. Recipients of the 2007 Jewish Studies Prize Teaching Fellowships Doron Bauer Graduate Student Department of the History of Art Mr. Bauer’s course, “The Power of Place- Art from the Land of Israel,” will examine works of art from the land of Israel, beginning with the Neolithic period and moving forward to the present day. Teresa Cribelli Graduate Student Department of History Her course, “And the Streets were paved with Gold? Jews in Latin America, 1492 to Present,” will focus on the Jewish experience in Latin America. | 
