Awards
2008
Rachel Kranson, New York University
Grappling with the Good Life: Anxieties of Jewish Affluence in Postwar America
Joshua Nathaniel Aaron Lambert (Honorable Mention) University of Michigan
Unclean Lips: Obscentiy and the Jews in North American Literature
David S. Koffman (Honorable Mention)
The Jews' Indian: Native Americans in the Jewish Experience and Imagination, 1824-1945
Erik M. Greenberg (Honorable Mention) University of California, Los Angeles
"Not For This Did the Prophets Sing and the Martyrs Die:" American Jewish Resistance to the Melting Pot, Circa 1900-1920
2007
Marni Davis, Emory University
On the Side of Liquor: American Jews and the Politics of Alcohol, 1870-1936
2006
Lauren Strauss, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists, Yiddish Culture, and Progressive Politics in New York, 1917-1939
2005
Valerie Thaler, Yale University
The Reshaping of American Jewish Identity, 1945 to 1960
Leah Levitz Fishbane, (Honorable Mention) Brandeis University
An ‘American Hebrew’ Renaissance: Young American Jews and the Challenge of Leadership in Late-19th Century American Judaism
2004
Mia Sara Bruch, Stanford University
The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man: American Jews and American Religious Pluralism, 1941-1960
Joshua A. Perelman (Honorable Mention) New York University
Choreographing Identity: Modern Dance and American Jewish Life, 1924-1964
Ari Y. Kelman (Honorable Mention) University of Pennsylvania
Station Identification: A Cultural History of New York’s Yiddish Radio
2003
Rona Sheramy, Brandeis University
Defining Lessons: Creating Jewish Memory of the Holocaust across the Generations
Lila Corwin Berman (Honorable Mention) Yale University
Presenting Jews: Jewishness and America, 1920-1960
2002
Shana Bernstein, Stanford University
Building Bridges at Home in a Time of Global Conflict: Interracial Cooperation and the Fight for Civil Rights in Los Angeles, 1933-1954
Lisa Silberman Brenner (Honorable Mention) Columbia University
The Jazz Singer’s Legacy: The Racial Role-Play of African-American and Jews in Twentieth Century American Performance
Susan Gittleman (Honorable Mention) Temple University
The German Jewish Experience in America, for a biography of Edna Ferber
2001
Beth Cohen, Clark University
Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in America, 1946-1954
Susan Breitzer (Honorable Mention) University of Iowa
Class, Ethnicity, and Community: The Jewish Working Class of Chicago, 1886-1928
Shana Bernstein (Honorable Mention) Stanford University
Building Bridges at Home in a Time of Global Conflict: Interracial Cooperation and the Fight for Civil Rights in Los Angeles, 1933-1954
Alexander Molot (Honorable Mention) New York University
Between Reform Judaism and Jewish Nationalism: David Neumark and the Problematics of Modern Jewish Identity
Arlene Lazarowitz (Honorable Mention) University of California
Senator Jacob K. Javits and Soviet Jewish Emigration
2000
Marc Frey, Temple University
The American Soviet Jewry Movement, 1958-1972
Libby Garland (Honorable Mention) University of Michigan
Migrants, Aliens, Citizens: United States Immigration Policies and the Making of Jewish Americans 1919-1939
Adam Howard (Honorable Mention) University of Florida
Return to Zion: Organized American Labor and the Establishment of the State of Israel 1942-1948
1999
Lisa Levenstein, University of Wisconsin
Poor Jewish Women in Philadelphia 1920-1960
Shuly Rubin Schwartz (Honorable Mention) Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Serving the Jewish People: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life
Joellyn Wallen Zollman (Honorable Mention) Brandeis University
Shopping for a Future: A History of the American Synagogue Gift Shop
Lawrence Charap (Honorable Mention) Johns Hopkins University
Jewish-Protestant Interfaith Dialogue in the American Religious Press 1883-1914
1998
Michael Alexander, Yale University
Jazz Age Jews
Kirsten Fermaglich (Honorable Mention) New York University
Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims: Secular Jews, the Holocaust, and American Intellectual Culture 1959-1978
Andrea Most (Honorable Mention) Brandeis University
Cantors and Jazz Singers: Theatre as a Medium of Modernization and Acculturation
1997
Tova Perlmutter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Federal Voting Rights Act and Jews in New York City
Arthur Kiron (Honorable Mention) Columbia University
Sabato Marais: Italian Rabbinic Humanist in Victorian Philadelphia
Rakmiel Peltz (Honorable Mention) Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania
Forging the Mainstream of American Jewish History: Children of Immigrants Interpret Their Legacy
Mark Frey (Honorable Mention) Temple University
A Chorus of Protest from the Free World: The American Struggle for Soviet Jewish Emigration, 1957-1963
1996
Marc Dollinger, Pasadena City College, California State University at Northridge
Turning Inward, the Transformation of American Liberal Politics from 1964-1980
1995
Aviva Ben-Ur, Brandeis University
Americanization in a Sephardic Immigrant Community: Two Advice Columns from the New York Ladino Press
Alice A. Butler-Smith
Eisenhower, the Middle East and the Jews: Imitations of Influence
1994
Andrew Harrison, Temple University
Mr. Philadelphia: Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967)
Jeff Watson (Honorable Mention) Brandeis University
From Parallel Postures to Interface: The Interfaith Movement and Jewish Christian Relations 1917-1933
Eli Weinerman (Honorable Mention) Indiana University
Philadelphia Jewry and American-Soviet Dialogue over Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union
Etan Diamond (Honorable Mention) Carnegie Mellon University
The Suburbanization of North American’s Orthodox Jews: Toronto, Ontario, 1940-1990