Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies Winners
2018–21
- Justin Cammy, Smith College, for his translation of From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony, by Abraham Sutzkever (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2021)
- Jordan Finkin, Hebrew Union College, and Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University, for their translation of From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories, by Fradl Shtok (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2021)
2016–19
- Debra Caplan, Baruch College, City University of New York, for Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2018)
- Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto, for The Marriage Plot; or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature (Stanford Univ. Press, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Harriet Murav, University of Illinois, Urbana, for David Bergelson’s Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity (Indiana Univ. Press, 2019)
2014–17
- Ellen Cassedy, New York, NY, and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Washington, DC, for their translation of “Oedipus in Brooklyn” and Other Stories, by Blume Lempel (Mandel Vilar Press / Dryad Press, 2016)
- Jerold C. Frakes, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, for Early Yiddish Epic (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2014)
2012–15
- Kathryn Hellerstein, University of Pennsylvania, for A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586–1987 (Stanford Univ. Press, 2014)
- Honorable mention: Jan Schwarz, Lund University, Sweden, for Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2015)
2010–13
- Maurice Wolfthal, for his translation of My Four Years in Soviet Russia, by Yitzkhak Erlichson (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
2008–11
- Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener (Stanford Univ. Press, 2011)
2006–09
- Maier Deshell, New York, and Margaret Birstein, Jerusalem, for Everyday Jews: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Yehoshue Perle (Yale Univ. Press, 2007)
2004–07
- Gabriella Safran, Stanford University, and Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University, for The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century (Stanford Univ. Press, 2006)
- Honorable mention: Chana Mlotek, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University, for Yiddish Folksongs from the Ruth Rubin Archive (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2007)
2002–05
- Amelia Glaser, University of California, San Diego, for Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
- Goldie Morgentaler, University of Lethbridge, for Survivors: Seven Short Stories by Chava Rosenfarb (Cormorant Books, 2004)
1999–2003
- Dov-Ber Kerler, Indiana University, Bloomington, for The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999)
1997–2001
- Joseph Sherman, University of Oxford, for Shadows on the Hudson: A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Farrar, 1998)