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Moritz Steinschneider PrizeMarina Shcherbakova•12/25/2025Announcement Announcement Type Prize Subject Fields Jewish History / Studies Moritz Steinschneider Prize a collaboration between the Unit of Judaic Studies at Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich and the academic publisher De Gruyter Brill Moritz Steinschneider is still considered one of the most important historians of Jewish literature. He uncovered numerous previously unknown texts, and his works continue to be regarded as authoritative references. Born in Prossnitz in 1807, he received both a traditional Jewish education and a comprehensive secular education. Among other subjects, he studied Arabic, Syrian and Hebrew, at the universities of Prague, Vienna and Leipzig. After teaching for several years in Prague, he moved to Berlin in 1845. His scholarly achievements soon after led Steinschneider’s commission to catalogue the Hebrew books in the Bodleian Library in Oxford—the basis for his standard work Catalogus librorum hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (1852–1860), which can be considered the first major history of Jewish literature. He also catalogued other library collections and was the editor of the Hebrew Bibliography in 21 volumes. He is considered the most important Jewish bibliographer and founder of scholarly Hebrew bibliography. His productivity is evident from his roughly 1,500 publications. The Moritz Steinschneider Prize honors the fundamental achievements of its namesake in Jewish studies and, at the same time, intends to promote young scholars in this field. The Prize is specifically aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the development and analysis of Jewish primary sources in their research. Eligible for the Prize are unpublished research works (MA theses, doctoral theses, and Habilitations) which engage with primary source in one of the following ways: the identification of previously unknown texts (in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, and other Jewish languages), their description and bibliographic cataloging, or the production of editions and translations, if these make previously inaccessible primary sources available to a broader audience. The Moritz Steinschneider Prize is a collaboration between the Department of Jewish Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the publisher De Gruyter Brill. The winner receives a book contract for the awarded work to be published by De Gruyter Brill without additional publication costs for the author. In addition, the Prize includes a book voucher worth €1,000 for books published by De Gruyter Brill. The Prize is awarded annually as part of the Gershom Scholem Lecture in Munich. Applicants are asked to send the following documents via email to [email protected] by January 15, 2026: current CV, list of publications, the research work to be submitted plus a one-page abstract and, if available references. The Prize Committee includes Prof. Dr. Phillip I. Lieberman (Vanderbilt University) Prof. Dr. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE, Paris/ University of Oxford) Prof. Dr. Saverio Campanini (Universität Bologna) Prof. Dr. Sarah Stroumsah (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Prof. Dr. Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) Contact Information [email protected] Contact Email [email protected]
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