HBI Research Awards 2011
Recipient
Institutional Affiliation
Project Title
Biography
Silke Georgi
Indigo-Wereld
They Were Our Neighbors: The Stories of the Jewish Women and
Children of Eindhoven
Miryam Kabakov
Yeshiva University
Eshel Multimedia Online Oral History Project
Marlene Trestman
N/A
The Life and Work of Bessie Margolin (1909 – 1996)
Families, Children & the Holocaust
Shannon L. Fogg
Missouri University of Science
& Technology
Restitution: Reconstructing Jewish Lives in Twentieth Century France
Gender, Culture, Religion & the Law
Tanya Zion-Waldoks
Bar-Ilan University
Resistance, Tradition and Social Change: Orthodox Jewish Women
Activists Fighting to Free Agunot in Israel
Ruth Zafran
Radzyner School of Law
Religious Law and Human Rights, Israel 2011 – The "Jurisdiction
Race" Between the Rabbinical Courts and the Civil Courts, and its
Consequences for Jewish Women: Empirical and Conceptual Analysis
History
Adriana Mariel Brodsky
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Helping to Create New States: Argentine Sephardim at Home and in
Israel, 1956-1976.
Jason Schulman
Emory University
The Red Flag Case Revisited: American Jewish Women, the
Communist Party, and the First Amendment
Sarah Abrevaya Stein & Julia
Phillips Cohen
UCLA
The Sephardic Studies Reader, 1730-1950
HBI Research Awards 2011
Judaism
Aliza Bazak
Bar-Ilan University
The Tav Lemeitav Presumption in Modern Halakhic Discourse
Esther David
N/A
“I am the seed of the Tree…” A Jewish woman’s search of her Jewish
heritage in India…
Michael Rosenberg
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America
Signs of Virginity: Blood, Sexuality, and Women’s Bodies in
Rabbinic Literature
Jewish Women’s Health
Julie Cwikel & Ephrat Huss
Ben Gurion University of the
Negev
Shira Offer
Bar-Ilan University
Assessing the Experiences of Israeli Women Who Served in Combat
Related Roles in the Israeli Defense Forces – Validation of a Arts Based Trauma Assessment for Normative Populations
Processes of Exclusion and Withdrawal from Personal Networks
among Low Income Women: The Principle of Reciprocity
Reconsidered
Yishuv & Israel
Bar-Ilan University
Judith Baumel-Schwartz
The Israeli Women's Army Corps Memorial: A Comparative History
of Contemporary Women's Military Monuments
Film & Video
Melanie Reynard & Hafsa Oubou
N/A
Intimate Lives: the Berber and Jewish Link Between Women in
Morocco
Tahneer Oksman
CUNY Grad Center
“How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Jewish American
Women and Comics
Jennifer Langer
SOAS – University of London
The Representation of Cultural Memory in Literary Texts by Exiled
Iranian Jewish Women Writers
Arts
HBI Research Awards 2011
Arts cont’d.
Laura Silver
HBI Research Associate
Knish Sisters: Mrs. Stahl, The Sholom Auxiliary, Bella Sherman and
Me
Shira Nayman
Barnard College
Moon Landing: A novel
Laura Morowitz & Laurie Lico
Albanese
Tamar Barzel
Wagner College
Adele’s Fire [Novel]
Wellesley College
Alison Pick
N/A
Downtown and Disorderly: “Radical Jewish Culture” and its
Discontents on New York’s Downtown Music Scene
Between Gods: A Memoir
Helene Aylon
N/A
For You, Hagar: Last Waters at Last
Dvora Liss & David Sperber
Evelyn M. Cohen
The Mishkan Le'Omanut,
Museum of Art, Ein Harod
N/A
Exhibition Catalogue for Matronita: Contemporary Jewish Feminist
Art
Charlotte Rothschild and Her Haggadah of 1842
Anna Schultz
Stanford University
Performing Translation, Performing Gender: Bene Israel Devotional
Song from India to Israel