Made possible by funding from Jordan Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, the Association for Jewish Studies is proud to award eight prizes this year (four winners and four finalists) for the annual Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize.
The categories in the 2025 competition were Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History & Culture; Modern Jewish History & Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, & Oceania; Jewish Literature & Linguistics; and Philosophy & Jewish Thought. Books published in 2023 and 2024 by AJS members were eligible for submission. Each category was judged by a committee of expert scholars in their field who chose this year’s winners and finalists. New in 2025, winners receive a $15,000 prize and Finalists receive a $5,000 prize.
Learn more about the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award competition.
We wish a hearty congratulations to this year’s awardees.
Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe
Iris Idelson-Shein
University of Pennsylvania Press
A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press
Ayelet Brinn
New York University Press
Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Hannah Pollin-Galay
University of Pennsylvania Press
When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics
Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi
Indiana University Press
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Rowan Dorin
Princeton University Press
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel Gordan
Oxford University Press
Moses Zacuto’s Hell Arrayed: A Seventeenth-Century Hebrew Poem on the Punishment of the Wicked in the Afterlife
Michela Andreatta
Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies
The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought
Yaniv Feller
Cambridge University Press
For further information, contact Amy Weiss, Senior Grants and Professional Development Manager, at aweiss@associationforjewishstudies.org.
