American Jewish Historical Society 2003 Prizes and Fellowships

Saul Viener Book Prize

Gerald Sorin, Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (New York University Press, 2002)

Ruth B. Fein Fellowships for Research in the Collections

Susan Roth Breitzer, University of Iowa

"A Tale of Two Communities: Class, Ethnicity and the Jews of Chicago: 1870-1928"

Adam Howard, University of Florida

"Sewing the Seeds of Statehood: Jewish Garment Unions, American Labor and the Establishment of the State of Israel, 1918-1948"

Linda Maizels, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Hillel at the Forefront: A History of Educational Responses of Campus Institutions to Antisemitism and Its Impact on Jewish Student Identity"

Leo Wasserman Article Prize for the Best Article in American Jewish History, Volume 89

Co-winners:

Eric L. Goldstein, "The Unstable Other: Locating the Jew in Progressive-Era American Racial Discourse"

Felicia Herman, "Hollywood, Nazism, and the Jews, 1933-41"

Leo Wasserman Student Essay Prize

Shira Kohn, Ohio State University

"'Sisters Always'? The American Jewish Sorority Experience"