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1 RECIPEINTS OF DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS, RECIPIENTS OF SPECIAL DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS Name Citizenship University Title of Dissertation GONZALEZ, Gudalupe Spain New York University Isaac Ibn Latif ( ) - Between Philosophy and Kabbalah: Timeless and Timebound Wisdom GRACHOVA, Sofiya Ukraine Harvard University The Politics of Jewish Life: Medicine and Russian Jews, LAUER, Rena USA Harvard University Negotiating Identity in an Eastern Mediterranean Society: The Jews of Venetial Crete, WEISS, Judith Israel/USA Ben Gurion University Guillaue Postel s Latin Translation and Commentary on The Zohar ( ) RECIPIENTS OF REGULAR DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS ANTHONY, Elizabeth USA Clark University Holocaust Survivors Repatriation to Austria BAZAK, Aliza Israel Bar-Ilan University The Tav Lemeitav Presumption in Modern Halakhic Discourse CAPLAN, Debra USA Harvard University Staging Jewish Modernism: The Interwar Yiddish Art Theater Movement in Poland and the United States

2 COHEN, Noga Israel Ben Gurion University The Books of Judith, Sussana and Tobit in Jewish Tradition: Folkloristic and Literary Aspects COOPER, Andrea Canada New York University More than Love: Gender, Eros and the Family in the Thought of Rosenzweig and Levinas CZEKANOWSKA, Monika Poland Adam Mickiewcz University The Portrays of Biblical Woman in the Works of Maurcycy Gottlieb, Boris Schatz, Samuel Hirszenberg, and Wilhelm and Ephraim Moshe Lilien: An Iconographic Approach to Portrayls of Judith, Shulamite, Esther and Salome DE SOUZA, Igor Brazil University of Chicago Hebrew Philosophical Commentaries on Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed DRUCKER BAR-AM, Gali Israel Hebrew University Am I Your Dust? Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose in Israel, FLORSHEIM, Ella Israel Hebrew University The Revival of Yiddish Culture in the DP Camps in Germany Through the Prism of Holocaust Survivors Newspapers FRISCH, Alexandria USA New York University The Empirical Empire: The Perception of Empire in Second Temple Judaism FURST. Rachel Israel/USA Hebrew University Claiming Credibility: The Makings and Meanings of Gender in the Legal Literature of Medieval Ashkenaz GELLER, Aleksandra Poland University of Warsaw Literarishe Bleter and the Debate about Modern Yiddish Culture in Interwar Poland

3 GIAT, Paltiel Israel Haifa University Encountering Israel: The Experience as Reflected in the Literature of Yemenite Immigrants, GOLDSTEIN, Julie USA New York University Child Martyrs and Jewish Violence in the Middle Ages HALPER, Shaun USA University of California, Jews in the Age of Homosexual Emancipation, Berkeley HELLER, Daniel Canada Stanford University War Games: Jewish Youth in Interwar Poland and the Rise of the Zionist Right JOHNSTON-BLOOM, USA University of Chicago Muhammad, the Quran and German-Jewish Modernites: Ruchama Gustav Weil, Josef Horovitz and Muhammad Asad KAYE, Lynn USA New York University Doing Time: Law and Temporality in the Babylonian Talmud KIEL, Yishai Israel Hebrew University Selected Topics in Laws of Defilement: Between the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi Literature KUNST, Konstanze Germany University of Pennsylvania To and From the Jewish Printshops in Prague: The Making and Mobility of Jewish Books Within the Ashkenazi Landscape of Jewish Printing in the Second Half of the 17 th Century MAHLA, Daniel Germany Columbia University Patterns of Group Formation in the Religious Zionist Movement: Poland, Germany and Palestine, NAAR, Devin USA Stanford University Visions of Salonica: Inventing the Jerusalem of the Balkans,

4 PAVIE, Nadine France Hebrew University Zamora s Hebrew Grammar Introductiones Artis Grammaticae Hebraicae: His Linguistic Conception Relative to His Sources and in Comparison to Other Grammars of the 16 th Century RONESS, Yitzchak Israel Bar Ilan University The Halakhic Legaacy of Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli ROSEN-ZVI, Assaf Israel Hebrew University Mekhilta de-rabbi Ishmael, Masekhta de-kaspa: Text and Commentary, Redaction, Midrashic Terminology and Hermeneutic ROSKIES, Jennifer Israel/Canada Bar Ilan University In Their Own Words: The Multiple Identities of Jewish Academic Women SHARABI, Yosef Israel Bar Ilan University Domestic Peace: Juridical Intervention in Resolving And Preventing Marital Crises in Jewish and Israeli Law STEIMANN, Ilona Israel Hebrew University Hebrew Illuminated Manuscript from the Collection of the German Humanist Hartmann Schedel TEPLITSKY, Joshua Canada New York University Between Court Jew and Jewish Court: David Oppenheim And the Political Culture of Early Modern Prague TEREM, Shulamit Israel Bar Ilan University Jerusalem and Judaea in the First and Early Second Centuries C.E.: Continuity and Change in the Ceramic Culture and its Implications for Clarifying Settlement History

5 TULING, Kari USA Hebrew Union College Between Maimonides and Kant: Herman Cohen s Religion of Reason TWOREK, Wojciech Poland University College The Experience of Time in the Writings of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi WALTER, Shai Israel Bar Ilan University Calendrical Reality and Astronomical Knowledge in Sanctification of the New Moon Issues WEISS, Rachel USA University of Minnesota Lakhn Mit Farfel: The Politics of Irony in Early Yiddish Language Film in America YAAKOV, Doron Israel Hebrew University The Hebrew Language of the Jews of Southern Yemen: Phonetics and Morphology of the Noun in the Mishna YANOVSKY, Sara Israel/Austria Hebrew University Facing the Challenge of Jewish Education in the Metropolis: A Comparative Study of the Jewish Communal Organizations of Budapest and Vienna, From 1867 until World War II

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