By: Katherine Gianni
On Friday, May 3, a group of Boston University students gathered in the library of the Elie Wiesel Center for a semester end celebration and award ceremony. Each year, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies helps to support graduate and undergraduate students with stipends, scholarships, and academic enhancement grants. EWCJS Director Michael Zank and Head of the Hebrew Language program Miriam Angrist presented the awards. This year’s recipients are as follows:
Simone (Deni) Budman (COM ’20) and Jacob Gurvis (COM ’20) each received a Books Family Scholarship for exceptional academic achievement as Jewish Studies minors.
Sophie Bartholomew (CAS ’19) received the Brooks Family Endowment Fund to support her participation in a summer program focusing on Yiddish studies in Berlin, Germany.
Tallulah Bark-Huss (COM ’21) and Lingxuan Liang (CAS ’21) each received Levine Martin Family Scholarships, to recognize their excellent ongoing work as Jewish Studies minors. Ms. Liang also received a Brooks Family Scholarship for summer travel to Israel where she will study Hebrew.
Callie Brandeis (COM ’20) received a David V. Karney Travel Fund Scholarship to help fund her summer travel to Tel Aviv where she will intern with Onward Israel.
Abigail Ripin (CAS ’20) received a David V. Karney Travel Fund Scholarship to support her spring semester in Israel at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, which integrates dance training with studying Israeli culture and history.
Erica Wilson (CAS ’19) received a financial award from the Elie Wiesel Center to support her participation in the African American Studies spring break in Cuba course. Part of the trip involved a visit to the Cuban Jewish community center, and a final essay discussing the place of religion in contemporary Cuba.
Alexandra Jellinger (CAS ’20) and Miriam Kamens (CAS ’20) each received Hebrew Awards for making significant progress in their study of Hebrew, their dedication, and their hard work over the course of the academic year.
Graduate student David Malamud received an award from the Henry J. and Carole Pinkney Fund to support his attendance at both the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting and the Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, and his membership in both associations. He also received two Einhorn Book Awards to support the purchase of books related to his research in Jewish Studies.
Congratulations to all of the students on their awards! We look forward to seeing what you all will accomplish in the next academic year and beyond.