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Eighteenth Annual Belin Lecture Postcard
Presented on March 6, 2008 by historian Beth Wenger

Featured Programs

Marshall M. Weinberg Graduate Student Prize Awarded
Josh Lambert Joins List of Distinguished Scholars

Established in 1995, the Marshall M. Weinberg Graduate Student Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding Judaic Studies doctoral student. The impressive list of past recipients includes scholars working in the field throughout the nation.

The 2008 winner, Josh Lambert, is a doctoral student in the Department of English Language & Literature who is focusing on modern Jewish literatures. As an undergraduate, Josh attended Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude in 2001. Since coming to Michigan, Josh has written for a wide array of publications, contributing to the Forward, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Globe & Mail and the Jewish Reader among others.

The first Weinberg Prize winner, Eric Goldstein, received the Jewish Book Council's 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award for The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity. He received his doctorate in 2000, advised by Todd Endelman, William Haber Professor of Jewish History. Dr. Goldstein is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Maud Mandel, another Weinberg Prize winner, received the Herbert Katzki Award from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. She is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University.

More recent Weinberg prize recipients include Justine Pas, American Culture; Emil Kerenji, History; and Jason Von Ehrenkrook, Near Eastern Studies. Both Justine and Emil expect to complete their doctorates at the end of this term and Jason expects completion in 2009.

Call 734-763-9047 or email for more information on the Weinberg Graduate Student Prize.

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