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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Authority for Research and Development https://research.huji.ac.il Tel: +972-2-658-6625/6/8; Fax: +972-2- 561-8196 2017 תשע"ז The Authority for Research and Development June 2017 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sagiv Ayelet coordinator: Project Polonsky for Creativity Prizes and Originality Prizes in the Humanistic Disciplines - 2017

Dr. Leonard S. Polonsky CBE

DR. Leonard S. Polonsky CBE has DR. Polonsky has involved himself He is founding chairman of the had a successful business career in a broad range of philanthropic board of trustees of The Polonsky in the financial services sector and activities over many years. In 2013 Foundation, a UK-registered is a philanthropist with particular he was named a Commander charity that supports cultural interests in higher education, of the British Empire (CBE) for heritage, education and the arts cultural heritage and the arts. charitable services by HM Queen in the UK, the USA, Israel, and Elizabeth II. He is a Companion Europe. Principal activities of The DR. Polonsky grew up in New of the Guild of Benefactors of Polonsky Foundation include: York City. He was a pupil at the Cambridge University, a Fleming the digitisation of significant prestigious Townsend Harris High Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford, collections at leading libraries School, and received his BA degree and an Honorary Member of the (the Bodleian Library, Oxford; from New York University at age 18. Royal College of Music, London. Cambridge University Library; the Following military service in 1945– British Library; the New York Public 46, he pursued graduate studies DR. Polonsky holds an Honorary Library; the Library of Congress; the in literature at Lincoln College, Doctorate from The Hebrew Vatican Apostolic Library); support Oxford, and at the Sorbonne, Paris, University of Jerusalem, of which for Theatre for a New Audience where he received his doctorate in he is a Governor and where he at the Polonsky Shakespeare 1952. He taught in Heidelberg for serves on the Board of the Harry Center in Brooklyn, New York; and several years before embarking on S. Truman Research Institute for post-doctoral fellowships at the his business career. the Advancement of Peace. At The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Hebrew University he established Study in the Humanities and Social DR. Polonsky began working in the Polonsky Prizes for Creativity Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem financial services in New York in and Originality in the Humanities, Institute. 1955, gaining further experience in which have been awarded Rome, Frankfurt, and Zurich, before annually since 2004. Other support In Israel, The Polonsky Foundation establishing Liberty Life Assurance for The Hebrew University includes also supports the University of Company Limited in London awards for study in China and Haifa, University and in 1970. Hansard Global plc, its scholarships for undergraduates of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and successor, of which he is President, Ethiopian background. Design, of which DR. Polonsky is a has been listed on the London Governor and Honorary Fellow. Stock Exchange since 2006. 2 3 PolonskyPolonsky Category A Researcher - First Prize for Creativity PROF. Moshe Taube Department of Linguistics Department of German, Russian and East and Originality European Studies PrizesPrizes Faculty of Humanities Logika of the Judaizers: A Fifteenth Century in the Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew Humanistic Disciplines Researcher - Second Prize - 2017

PROF. Robert Brody Department of and Halacha Faculty of Humanities Mishnah and Tosefta Ketubbot: A Message Text, Exegesis and Redaction from the Dean Category B Post-Doctoral Researcher

DR. Michal Marmorstein Department of Linguistics Faculty of Humanities Tense and Text in Classical Arabic: A Discourse-Oriented Study of the Classical Arabic Tense System. Leiden: Brill. 2016 researchers Category C PhD or M.A. Student PROF. DRor Wahrman

Dear Friends and Colleagues, (Shy) Arkin and myself. This year’s prize winners were chosen from a particularly strong list of contenders in the different categories, Scholarly activity in the Humanities is expressed in different making the selection especially challenging. All in all, the high MS. Bat-ami Artzi forms: monographs, the editing of original sources, journal quality of all the submissions left me with a feeling of pride in Department of Romance and Latin American Studies articles and more, all of which are based on extensive research, the distinctive and excellent work being produced in the fields Faculty of Humanities intellectual analysis and writing. Every year, members of the of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It gives “…y son yndios por conquistar”: las alegorías femeninas Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University publish their me great pleasure to thank the members of the prize committee de los cuatro suyus en el testimonio etnohistórico y scholarship in prestigious journals and academic publishing for their hard work, as well as Prof. Arkin for his support, Ms. arqueológico houses in Israel and abroad. It is such scholarly endeavors that Rachel Nathan from the Faculty of Humanities who coordinated have made the Faculty of Humanities in Jerusalem one of the the work of the prize committee, and Ms. Ayelet Sagiv of leading centers of humanistic study in the world, and have the Authority for Research and Development at The Hebrew contributed to the overall reputation of The Hebrew University as University, for crucial administrative matters, not the least a foremost academic institution. coordinating this ceremony today.

We are grateful to the Polonsky Foundation for their support and The Polonsky Prizes were established over a decade ago through MR. Shraga Bick the generosity and vision of DR. Leonard Polonsky and the encouragement. We look forward to next year’s competition, Polonsky Foundation. These prizes give clear recognition to and the interesting and original studies that it will bring to our Department of Comparative Religion both senior and junior members of the Faculty of Humanities attention. Faculty of Humanities and elsewhere at the University who have demonstrated the "But I am Prayer": Voice, Body and the Anthropology highest standards of scholarship in the humanistic disciplines. With best wishes, of the Praying Self in Rabbinic and Syriac-Christian All the recipients of this year's prize were chosen by a committee Prof. Dror Wahrman Literature consisting of members of the Faculty of Humanities, along with Dean, The Faculty of Humanities the Vice President for Research and Development, Prof. Isaiah 4 5 researcher 7 down in writing in Cyrillic script. The script. down in writing in Cyrillic us to determine the allows comparison to of collaborators the two contribution and of version, the Slavic the structure it possible to determine the level makes his of erudition of the Jewish translator, his familiarity ofknowledge Hebrew, and with the philosophical literature of his mastery ofthe poor level the The Duchy. of language the Grand Slavic study also established the name of the of Kiev and resident Jewish translator and copyist ben Aharon, as Zecharia philosophical texts. annotator of Hebrew and to both Jewish The book contributes history in discussing cultural Ukrainian interaction of cultural the circumstances and Christians in the Jews between of Duchy Lithuania, and highlights Grand of role pre-Ashkenazic the unexpected of community Kiev the ancient from Jews of transmission. agents as cultural The Moshe Taube First Prize - First Researcher PROF. PROF. ofDepartment Linguistics East and ofDepartment Russian German, Studies European of Humanities Faculty 6 Logika. The comparative analysis of analysis the Arabic, The comparative versions and the Slavic the Hebrew made it possible to establish that the effort a collaborative was translation and a Christian of a Jewish translator dictating with the Jewish translator Slav, of rendering Slavic his spoken orally who put it to the Slav, the Hebrew The monograph offers a critical edition offers The monograph manuscripts offrom medieval two originally composed philosophical texts in Arabic: ascribed to Terminology, The Logical 1. and Maimonides, of the Philosophers by The Intentions 2. Muhammad Al-Ghazali. the 13th- in Hebrew into Translated scholars translated two 14th centuries, half in the second of these works the Ruthenian, into the 15th century of Duchy of language the Grand Slavic a into in Slavic Lithuania. Combined entitled was the work single text, Moshe Taube is Professor of Linguistics and holder of the Tamara and Saveli Grinberg chair in Russian Studies at The Hebrew University. Taube earned his B.A. and his M.A. in linguistics at The Hebrew University (1972; 1975). The Université de Paris-Sorbonne awarded Taube a Ph.D. in Russian philology in 1979. Before his appointment as full Professor in 2002, Taube taught as a lecturer (1983), senior lecturer (1986), and associate Professor (1995). Taube’s research topics include Medieval Slavic translations from Hebrew, Yiddish Grammar and the influence of Slavic on Yiddish and on Modern Hebrew. Along with co-author H.G. Lunt, Taube published a book entitled: The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, ProbleMS of Translation, Cambridge: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 1998.

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OF THE THE LOGIKA researcher 9 y Brod obert PROF. R PROF. and Halacha Talmud ofDepartment of Humanities Faculty Robert Brody is Professor emeritus of Talmud at the Hebrew University, where he taught after earning his Ph.D. degree in 1982. He has published extensively on rabbinic literature, especially in the Geonic period. His book The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture (Yale, 1998) won a National Jewish Book Award and has recently appeared in an expanded and updated Hebrew version. Many of his more recent publications focus on classical rabbinic literature, including Mishnah and Tosefta Studies (in English, Magnes, 2014) and Mishnah and Tosefta Ketubbot: Text, Redaction and Exegesis (in Hebrew, Magnes, 2015). the readings of MS Vienna. Vienna. of MS the readings in the field The editorial method accepted has years the last eighty for of rabbinics been to choose a single "best" textual it in almost every witness and follow best the even Unfortunately, instance. errors numerous manuscript contains and an editor readings, and secondary a particular witness follows who slavishly that is often with a text readers presents This book presents corrupt. recognizably ofeditions of Mishnah and one tractate based on painstaking stemmatic Tosefta a middle which represents analysis, the "best witness" between ground of an and the arbitrariness approach eclectic approach. 8 Mishnah and Tosefta Ketubbot: Ketubbot: Tosefta Mishnah and and Redaction Exegesis Text, The editions of the Mishnah and Tosefta Tosefta The editions of the Mishnah and both to with regard new ground break and to the editing traditions their textual Regarding literature. of classical rabbinic of the Mishnah, the traditions the textual to corrections important book suggests scholarship. view in recent the regnant and varied Among these is the complex situation oftextual the Mishnah in the The book demonstrates period. Amoraic of number that in a significant cases a of the Mishnah pristine version more while a reworked in Babylonia circulated Its in Palestine. currency enjoyed version to the textual with regard conclusions more even are Tosefta history of the to the accepted Contrary revolutionary: readings of MS wisdom in the field, the often than more Erfurt to be preferred are econd Prize Second

the Mishnah and Tosefta. the Mishnah and prevail between corresponding passages of passages corresponding between prevail the wide variety of relationships that of relationships the wide variety to recent scholarly debates by illustrating illustrating by scholarly debates to recent commentaries. The book also contributes The book also contributes commentaries. passages and has been the subject of few and has been the subject ofpassages few the Tosefta, which includes many obscure obscure which includes many Tosefta, the interpretations, particularly in the case of interpretations, The commentaries include many novel novel include many The commentaries that they must be interpreted in tandem. must be interpreted that they compositions is so close and so complex is so close and so complex compositions as the relationship between the two the two between as the relationship and interwoven commentaries on them, commentaries and interwoven synoptic presentation of the two texts of texts the two presentation synoptic the Tosefta. It offers a new model for the a new model It offers Tosefta. the literature, and its companion volume volume and its companion literature, the central text of classical rabbinic of text classical rabbinic the central This book deals with the Mishnah, Researcher - Researcher Post-Doctoral Researcher The volume Tense and Text in Classical model of contextual analysis from which distinctions, but is rather combinatorial Arabic addresses a long-standing question to approach the intriguing question of the and multi-faceted. Michal Marmorstein received a Ph.D. in linguistics from The Hebrew University (2014). Her in Arabic grammar: what is the meaning of tense usage in classical Arabic. research uses the theoretical and methodological framework of discourse analysis to study the verbal tenses? The study demonstrates the fundamental Semitic languages. The main question that motivates her research is how language is Rather than viewing the verbs as role of context in meaning interpretation, shaped by and adapted to different communicative contexts. She works primarily on Arabic, According to the dominant paradigm autonomous units, the proposed analysis a role which is universal in nature, both classical and colloquial Egyptian, as well as on Hebrew, neo-Aramaic, and comparative in Western scholarship, the system of takes the extended context in which inherent to the relationship between Semitics. Her research topics include tense usage, narrative structure, genericity, expressivity, classical Arabic is based on a semantic the verb occurs as the relevant unit of language (as structure) and discourse (as

cl discourse markers, spoken and written language, style and genre analysis, and Arabic- opposition between two verb forms: fa lala analysis. The definition of the contextual practice). Moreover, the study shows that

cl Hebrew interface. In July 2016, she joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics, where (‘he did’) and yaf lalu (‘he [BE] doing’). unit is based on a fine-grained analysis investigating the reflexive relationships she teaches courses in the fields of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and Arabic linguistics. of thousands of examples extracted from between form and context is not only An unsolved controversy revolves around classical Arabic literature. A number of crucial to the clarification of intra- DR. Michal Marmorstein the essence of this opposition, specifically, features emerge as the most pertinent linguistic meanings, but also to a deeper Department of Linguistics on whether it indicates temporal or in defining the meaning of the verb: understanding of basic discourse types Faculty of Humanities aspectual distinctions. While formal deixis/reference, text type, syntactic such as the dialogue, the narrative, and the definitions abound, they are often interdependency, clause type, and lexical generic statement. Thus, the contribution Tense and Text in Classical Arabic: acknowledged to be limited and partial in classes. The study presents a detailed of this volume goes beyond the interest of face of authentic linguistic evidence. examination of the tense usage in a linguists, and may well benefit all scholars large variety of syntactic and textual and students interested in the linguistic A Discourse-Oriented Study of Inspired by insights of medieval Arab environments. Its results clearly show aspect of these socio-cultural discourse grammarians, and drawing upon modern that the meaning of the tenses in classical phenomena. methods of text-linguistics and discourse Arabic and, arguably, in other languages, the Classical Arabic Tense System analysis, the volume proposes a new is not reducible to simple semantic post Leiden: Brill. 2016 - doctoral research er

10 11 PHD/MA STUDENT suyus . Therefore, it is clear that the it is Therefore, . suyus feminine allegories of the four of allegories four the feminine were not Guaman Poma’s invention, invention, not Guaman Poma’s were an Inca pattern that but rather influence. European integrated display These findings visibly of the Inca conceptualization territories as their conquered notion This entities. feminine in previous demonstrated was ethnohistorical studies; however, study clearly presents the present that this notion also had an artistic representation. is related to one of the four parts of to one of the four is related of light In that, new Empire. a Inca the to the figurines is given interpretation of allegories four the as materialized and the suyus 13 the four continents that began began that continents the four The 1570. art in in European appearing of each continent’s characteristics to one of the allegory is parallel ofallegories the between the continents’ opposites between the continents’ in the case of repeated, are allegories allegories. Guaman Poma’s to determine whether In order is of allegories the use of the four article or Andean origin, the European on the Inca art. Focusing analyzes the figurines, Inca feminine dressed four and identifies article analyzes types of Using the figurines’ attire. and archaeological ethnographic the research information, that each type of attire demonstrates . In these texts, each of the . In these texts, suyus ), which appears in the text as well ), which appears in the text suyus “…and they are Indians to be are they “…and The Incas’ Feminine conquered”: Suyus in ofAllegories the Four and Ethnohistorical Archaeological Testimonies and Good In the “The First New Chronicle Guaman by written in 1615 Government”, nobleman, there an Andean native Poma, ladies ofis a description of the the four (the four parts of the Inca Empire four as in an illustration. The first part of this as in an illustration. and images these texts analyzes research that, these women and suggests in fact, their lands, representing allegories, are the four four women is described and Guaman four the includes details about the lady, Poma of the inhabitants the land land and/or of each lady. that the four The study demonstrates other in many as found allegories, work, in Guaman Poma’s components influence. European strong a very have in the case of these allegories, However, European a specific the study explores of feminine allegories the influence: 12 zi “…y son yndios por conquistar”: son yndios por conquistar”: “…y de los femeninas las alegorías suyus en el testimoniocuatro y arqueológico etnohistórico -ami Art -ami t . Student a .A . B . MS Studies and Latin American ofDepartment Romance of Humanities Faculty PhD or M PhD archaeologist. is an experienced curator and to her academic research, she mechanisms functioned. In addition the ways in which Andean gender Her groundbreaking work explores South-Central Andean iconography. and on other gender-related issues in that focuses on the feminine image submitted her doctoral dissertation and linguistic sources. Recently, she ethnohistorical, anthropological history methods with archaeological, combines archaeological and art an interdisciplinary approach that cultures. In her research, she uses Andean precolonial and colonial written sources produced by of study focuses on artifacts and Latin American Studies. Her field Department of Romance and last phases of her Ph.D. in the Bat-ami Artzi is currently in the PhD or M.A. Student Previous Polonsky Prize Winners

MR. Shraga Bick 2016 Department of Comparative Religion Polonsky Prizes 2016 Faculty of Humanities First Prize: PROF. RINA TALGAM Shraga Bick holds a B.A. in law and comparative religion and Department of Art History ,Faculty of Humanities a M.A. in comparative religion. Both degrees are from The For her book: Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land 2015 Hebrew University. In his graduate studies, Bick focused on Christian studies, and in particular on the relationship between Second Prize: PROF. MANUELA CONSONNI Christian and rabbinic literature in the Late Antiquity period. Department of Romance and Latin American Studies He was recently awarded the Presidential Scholarship given to Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry, outstanding doctoral students. and School of History Faculty of Humanities For her book: L’eclisse dell’Antifascismo. Resistenza, questione ebraica e cultura politica in Italia, 1943-1989 2014 Young Researcher: DR. YAKIR PAZ Department of Talmud and Halacha, Faculty of Humanities For his dissertation: From Scribes to Scholars: Rabbinic Biblical Exegesis in Light of the Homeric Commentaries

Young Researcher: DR. MERON PIOTRKOWSKI Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry, 2013 Faculty of Humanities For his dissertation: Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period

MA/Doctoral Student: MR. RAY SCHRIRE Department of History, Faculty of Humanities For his thesis: Learning Latin in 16th and 17th Century England: Lily's Grammar as a Case Study in Cognitive History 2012

Polonsky Prizes 2015 2011 First Prize: DR. YOSSI MAUREY Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Medieval Music, Legend, and the Cult of St. Martin: "But I am Prayer": The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint PHD/MA STUDENT PHD/MA 2010 Second Prize: PROF. YFAAT WEISS Voice, Body and the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry, and the School of History, Faculty of Humanities Anthropology of the For her book: Journey and Imaginary Journey: Leah Goldberg in Germany, 1930-1933 Young Researcher: DR. JOSEPH WITZTUM 2009 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities Praying Self in Rabbinic The Syriac Milieu of the Quran: The Recasting of Biblical Narratives Young Researcher: MR. ELI OSHEROFF Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Syriac-Christian Where Did You Come From? The History of the Jewish People 2008 Literature in Early Palestinian Historiography (1920-1948) Polonsky Prizes 2014 Under the supervision of Prof. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Shraga complex relationship between voice and silence, and between Bick explored the complex relationship between voice and the rejection and acceptance of the body. However, he argued, 2007 silence in the construction and design of prayer in Rabbinic and with respect to rabbinic literature, one can notice (especially in First Prize: PROF. DROR WAHRMAN Syriac-Christian literature in Late Antiquity. In this context, he later Amoraic sources) that there is an additional approach, which Department of History, Faculty of Humanities examined prayer not only as a limited ritual of text recitation, but emphasizes "the eruption of the body" into prayer. In addition, he For his book: MR. Collier’s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age as a state and posture that requires both physical and mental presented how Syrian literature breached the unsolvable tension preparation and training. Furthermore, he postulated that prayer between voice and silence. Thus, instead of that 'paradoxical Second Prize: DR. UZI LEIBNER 2006 must be examined as part of a wider socio-cultural context ambivalence' he pointed to the formulation of a dual system of Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities in order to understand how each particular society designed prayer in the Book of Steps which reached its most comprehensive For his article: The Origins of Jewish Settlement in the Galilee in the Second Temple Period: Historical Sources and Archaeological Data prayer. Accordingly, he examined prayer as belonging to a Semitic and detailed expression in the work of John of Apamea. This discursive space, characterized by a strong emphasis on the model does not wish to contain within it the paradox of prayer, Young Researcher: DR. TAWFIQ DA’ADLI importance of the body, together with a strong but ambivalent but rather to create two-sided options, one of physical and vocal The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Faculty of Humanities emphasis on language and speech, as a vital yet inadequate tool prayer, and another of a still and silent prayer. However, at this The Pictorial Language of the Herat School of Painting: Two Nizāmī 2005 by which to speak to and about God. point, it is no longer about silencing the voice alone, but about the Manuscripts as a Case Study complete transformation of the self and the praying person from Bick argued that one could find both in Ephrem and in rabbinic the physical world of body and voice, into the silence of God. Young Researcher: MS. NOA NAHMIAS literature an ambivalent theory of prayer, which results from the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Humanities Displaying Patriotism: Narratives of the May 4th Movement in Chinese Museums 14 15 15 2004 Polonsky Prizes 2011 2016

First Prize: PROF. Maren R. Niehoff Department of Jewish Thought For her book: Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria (Cambridge, 2011)

Second Prize: PROF. Esther Cohen 2015 Department of History For her book: The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture. 1755-1816 (Chicago, 2010)

Young Researcher: DR. Maoz Kahana Department of the History of the Jewish People From Prague to Pressburg: Halakhic Writing in a Changing World, from the “Noda B’Yehudah” 2014 to the “Hatam Sofer,” 1730-1839

MA/Doctoral Student: MS. Michal Altbauer Rudnik Polonsky Prizes 2013 Department of History For her article: The Wounds of Love Are Cured Only by Those Who Made Them: Prescribing Marriage First Prize: DR. Ofra Tirosh-Becker for Lovesickness in Early Modern European Medical Writing 2013 Department of Hebrew and Jewish Languages, Faculty of Humanities For her book: Rabbinic Excerpts in Medieval Karaite Literature

Second Prize: DR. Shimon Gesundheit (Bar-On) Department of , Faculty of Humanities Polonsky Prizes 2010 For his book: Three Times a Year: Studies on Festival Legislation in the Pentateuch 2012 First Prize: PROF. Yuri Pines Young Researcher: DR. Yitzhak Freedman Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Humanities Department of Comparative Religion, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Envisioning Eternal Empire Death, Performance and Text in the Early Upanisads Second Prize: DR. Pawel Maciejko Young Researcher: MR. Ariel Zinder Department of Jewish Thought, Faculty of Humanities 2011 Department of Hebrew Literature, Faculty of Humanities For his book: The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement 1755-1816 “Is This Thy Voice?” Rhetoric and Dialogue in Shlomo Ibn-Gabirol’s Poems of Redemption (‘Piyyutei Ge’ulah’) DR. Simcha Kojman-Rozen History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science Program, Faculty of Humanities Young Researcher: MS. Liat Naeh For her thesis: Time and Emergence in Scientific Theories in England in the 19th Century Institute of Archeology, Faculty of Humanities 2010 Miniature Vessels and Seven-Cupped Bowls in the Middle Bronze Age Temple of Nahariya: MS. Noga Ayali-Darshan Their Role and Meaning in Light of Cultic Miniature and Complex Vessels of the Middle Bronze Age Department of Jewish History, Faculty of Humanities For her article: The Bride of the Sea: The Tradition about Astarte and Yamm in the Ancient Near East 2009 Polonsky Prizes 2012 Polonsky Prizes 2009

First Prize: PROF. Ruth HaCohen First Prize: DR. Yuval Noah Harari Department of Musicology Department of History, Faculty of Humanities The Music Libel against the Jews For his book: The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 2008

Second Prize: DR. Yuval Noah Harari Second Prize: PROF. Simcha Emanuel Department of History Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities A Brief History of Mankind For his book: Fragments of the Tablets - Indian and Armenian Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his dissertation: The Fullness of Emptiness: Nāgārjuna’s Thought in Light of the Yukti-sastika-karika Young Researcher: DR. Aleksei Krakhmalnikov and the Śūnyatā-saptati 2007 Department of German, Russian and Eastern European Studies The Literature of the Belokrynitsa Old-Believers (1846-1862) Young Researcher: DR. Nira Alperson-Afil Institute of Archeology, Faculty of Humanities Young Researcher: DR. Jennifer Oser For his dissertation: Ancient Flames: Controlled Use of Fire at the Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel Federmann School of Public Policy and Government Expanded Citizen Participation and Participatory Inequality: A Vicious or Virtuous Circle? Student Prize: MS. Noa Shashar 2006 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities MA/Doctoral Student: MR. Yaron Girsh For her MA thesis: The Role of Niddah Laws in Daily Lives of Men and Women in the Ashkenazi World School of Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the 17th-19th Centuries “The Cultural Boundaries of Thinking”: Cultural Narratives in the Philosophy of Education of Friedrich Nietzsche and John Dewey Student Prize: MR. Kobi Ben-Meir Forum Europa, Faculty of Social Sciences 2005 For her MA thesis: Images of Pain, Disease and Death in 1970’s Israeli Art

16 17 2004 Polonsky Prizes 2008 2016

First Prize: DR. Michael Segal Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his book: The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (2007)

Second Prize: PROF. Ronnie Ellenblum 2015 Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences and School of History, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Crusader Castles and Modern Histories (2007)

Second Prize: DR. Michael Roubach Polonsky Prizes 2005 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Being and Number in Heidegger’s Thought (2008) 2014 First Prize: PROF. Gabriel Herman Student Prize: MR. Maoz Kahana Department of History, Faculty of Humanities Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens – A Social History For his MA thesis: Stability and Change in the Responsa of Rabbi Moshe Sofer Young Researcher Prize: DR. Tzachi Zamir Student Prize: MR. Oded Porat Department of English, Faculty of Humanities 2013 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his book: Double Vision For his MA thesis: Studying the Treatise “Brit Hamnuha” (“Covenant of Serenity”): Its Ideas, Literature Relationships and an Introduction to the Critical Edition Student Prize: DR. Emmanuelle Main Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities For her article: Des Mercenaires Rhodiens dans la Judée Hasmonéenne? Etude du Morif Floral de Monnaies Polonsky Prizes 2007 de Jean Hyrcan et d’Alexandre Jannée 2012 Student Prize: MR. Ronnie Goldstein First Prize: DR. Diego Olstein Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities Department of History, Faculty of Humanities For his article: The Lie and Rumor -The Double Account of Jeremiah’s Meeting with Zedekiah For his book: La Era Mozárabes: Los Mozárabes de Toledo (Siglos XII y XIII) en la Historiografía: and Ancient Techniques for Challenging the Existence of Rival Versions Las Fuentes y la Historia Student Prize: MR. Ahmed Abu-Abied 2011 Second Prize: PROF. Gannit Ankori School of Education Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities For his MA thesis: The Effect of Pre-school Attendance on Primary School Achievement For her book: Palestinian Art

Second Prize: DR. Jonathan Dekel-Chen Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Faculty of Humanities 2010 For his book: Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941 Polonsky Prizes 2004

Young Researcher Prize: DR. Tsippi Kauffman First Prize: PROF. Mara Beller Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies. Faculty of Humanities Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities For her dissertation: Between Immanence and Religious Behavior: Avodah be-Gashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism For her book: Quantum Dialogue: The Making of a Revolution 2009 Student Prize: MR. Ilya Berkovich Second Prize: PROF. Avihu Zakai Department of History, Faculty of Humanities Department of American Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his paper: Sally: A Comparative Survey into the Nature of Medieval Warfare For her book: Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of History: The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment 2008 Young Researcher Prize: DR. Anat Helman Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies and Cultural Studies Program Polonsky Prizes 2006 Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Faculty of Humanities For her dissertation: The Development of Civil Society and Urban Culture in Tel-Aviv during the 1920s and 1930s First Prize: PROF. Yosef Garfinkel Institute of Archeology, Faculty of Humanities Student Prize: MS. Ophir Mintz-Manor 2007 For his book: Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities For his work: Other Voices: Haman, Jesus, and the Representations of the Other First Prize: PROF. Benny Shanon in Purim Poems from Byzantine Palestine Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences For his book: The Antipodes of the Mind 2006 Young Researcher Prize: DR. Hila Keren Faculty of Law For her article: Textual Harassment: A New Historicist Reappraisal of the Parol Evidence Rule with Gender in Mind

Student Prize: DR. Elisheva Rigbi-Shafrir Department of Musicology, Faculty of Humanities For her dissertation: The Modern in Music 1980-1920 against the Crisis of Historicism and the Breakdown 2005 of Rational Paradigm: A Critical Analysis of a Style

Student Prize: MS. Gabriela Sternfeld Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Faculty of Humanities For her dissertation: La Organización Laboral del Impero Inca: Las Autoridades Locales Básicas 18 19 2004