The BA submission should be a dissertation or long-essay on a subject relating to Jewish Studies.
The MA submission should be an essay on the theme of the forthcoming BAJS conference.
The submission (two hard-copies, one electronic copy, 5000 word limit for postgraduates, 12,000 words for undergraduates) should be marked clearly as Undergraduate or Postgraduate and should include the student’s full contact details. Submissions by post-graduate research students are not considered.
Submissions, which are the responsibility of the student, should be sent to: BAJS Student Prize, c/o Dr Sarah Pearce, History, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton, S017 1BJ. Email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk.
The theme of the forthcoming conference is ‘The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism’.
Past Prize Winners
2009
postgraduate – Tyler Smith , ‘The “Communal Meal” in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, and Philo: An Evaluation of its Purported Cultic Function and Relation to the Eucharist’ (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
undergraduate – Hannah Atkinson, ‘A Comparison of the Views and Assumptions of the Holocaust Theologies of Eliezer Berkovits and Paul van Buren’ (Manchester)
2008
Joint 1st (postgraduate) – Simon Mayers, ‘An Examination of the Judaism-Jewishness Dialectic within Jewish Studies’ (Manchester)
Joint 1st (postgraduate) – Zoe Jacob, ‘Which theory of secular domestic law best helps underpin the Orthodox Jewish feminist approach to halakhah, and does this theoretical underpinning strengthen Orthodox Jewish feminist position?’ (UCL)
2007
1st – Thomas Sharrard, ‘Representations of London’s East End through literature: Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane’ (Southampton)
2006
1st – Charlotte Alfred, ‘Should Palestinian attitudes to Israeli Jews be explained primarily in terms of religion or modern nationalism?’ (Edinburgh)
2nd – Felicity Griffiths, ‘The Blood Libel and the Papacy’ (UCL)
2005
1st – Helen Bartos, ‘Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Jewish Immigrants in the US, England and One Other English-Speaking Land Around 1900′ (UCL)
2nd - Hannah Ewence, ‘How Can national Socialist Attitudes Toward Motherhood Be Interpreted?’ (Southampton)
3rd – Hannah Judd, ‘With Reference to the Work of Melissa Raphael, Discuss Whether there Is a Need for a Jewish Feminist Response to the Holocaust’ (Birmingham)
2004
1st – Zubin Mistry, ‘Jewish Greek literature: apologetic or assertive?’ (Cambridge)
2nd – Fiona Eatwell ‘Popular Conceptions of the Jew in the Medieval Period’ (Manchester)
3rd – Steven Winter ‘Revisiting the 1948 War’ (UCL)
2003
1st – Helene Bartos ‘The Zionist Movement and Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel 1881 to 1948′ (UCL)
2nd - Daniel Cowen ‘The Treatise of the Pool of Obadiah Maimonides, 1228-1265′ (Oxford)
3rd – Ophira Starr ‘Are There Modernistic or Even Post Modernistic Elements in the Hasidism?’ (UCL)
2002
1st – Sally Style (UCL)
2nd – Greg Smart (Southampton)
2001
1st - J. Cartaris, ‘Yiddish cinema: Der Dibek’ (UCL)
2nd – S. Schubert, ‘Greek and Roman perceptions of Jews’ (UCL)
3rd - Danny Burkemann, ‘R. Ruether and G. Kittel on Jews’ (Cambridge)
2000
1st – C. Belo
2nd – I. Conn
3rd – E. Krausova (UCL)
1999
1st – R. Esterson, ‘Maimonides’ Position on Creation in The Guide to the Perplexed’ (UCL)
2nd – R. Tragen, ‘The Judgments of the Ruseisin Case: Legalism and Refection on the Nature of Jewish Identity’ (Manchester) and L. Wicken, ‘The Significance of the Spanish Expulsion for the Messianic Idea in Judaism’ (UCL)
