Jewish Studies Program Essay Competition
Second Annual Competition: 2008-2009
First Prize
Halley Epstein, “Moritz Oppenheim: The First Jewish Painter”
(Click here to read Halley Epstein's paper)
HIEU 360/GETR 360 German Jewish History and Culture
Professors Jeffrey Grossman and Gabriel Finder
Fall 2008
Second Prize
Anna Mohan, “Ambiguity and Ambivalence: The Extent of Jewish Integration in the German Empire,”
HIEU 100 Germans and Jews in Modern Germany
Professor Manuela Achilles
Fall 2008
Third Prize
Patrick Owlett, “Judaism, Catholicism, and IVF: A Comparative Study”
RELJ 332 Judaism, Medicine and Healing
Professor Vanessa Ochs
Fall 2008
Honorable Mention
Kate Whelan, “The Transmission of Memory through Food”
RELJ 332 Judaism, Medicine and Healing
Professor Vanessa Ochs
Fall 2008
List of Finalists
Alyssa Brown, “Judaism and Angels: An Exploration of Jewish Conceptions of Angel as Healers”
RELJ 332 Judaism, Medicine and Healing
Professor Vanessa Ochs
Fall 2008
Carrie Filipetti, “What is a Neighbor?: Luke and Isaiah on Knowledge, Action, and Mutualism in a Neighborly Relationship”
RELJ 375 Judaism and Scriptural Reasoning
Professor Peter Ochs
Spring 2008
Carrie Filipetti, “Louis Brandeis and American-Jewish Identity”
HIEU 210 Jewish History II: The Modern Experience
Professor James Loeffler
Spring 2008
Johannes Franzen, “The Drama of the Pronouns We, They and I”: Ideology and Violence in The Human Stain”
ENAM/ENMC 481 Jewish American Literature
Professor Caroline Rody
Fall 2008
Charlotte Howell, “Pushing the Boundaries: The Interstitial Space of Comic Books and the Unassimilated Trauma of the Holocaust in Maus”
ENAM/ENMC 481 Jewish American Literature
Professor Caroline Rody
Fall 2008
Abigail Hull, “Engaging Identities: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and her Musical Quest for Self-Expression and Understanding,”
HIEU 360/GETR 360 German Jewish History and Culture
Professors Jeffrey Grossman and Gabriel Finder
Fall 2008
Adam Berman Jason, “A Jewish Woman’s Rise to Power in Communism and Romania: The Story of Ana Pauker”
HIEU 353 Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe
Professor James Loeffler
Fall 2008
Monica Kumar, “Assimilation Without Integration: Hungarian Jewry in the Inter-War Period”
HIEU 353 Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe
Professor James Loeffler
Fall 2008
Casey Raymond, “Levitical Love: Intimacy, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness”
RELJ 375 Judaism and Scriptural Reasoning
Professor Peter Ochs
Spring 2008
Ethan Richardson, “Creating an After-Modern Jewish Ethic”
RELJ 335 Jewish Social Ethics
Professor Peter Ochs
Fall 2008
Robbie Rogart, “The Manifestations of Jewish Traditions,”
RELJ 203 The Judaic Tradition
Professor Elizabeth Alexander
Fall 2008
Ben Schewel, “Remember Me”
RELJ 375 Judaism and Scriptural Reasoning
Professor Peter Ochs
Spring 2008
Alzbeta Springer, “Berr Isaac Berr and His Cautious Dream Of Equality”
HIEU 210 Jewish History II: The Modern Experience
Professor James Loeffler
Spring 2008