Scholarships
International Project on the Jewish heritage of Galicia and Bukovina at the University of Haifa and the non- profit organization Jewish Galicia and Bukovina have awarded in the year 2017 five scholarships to established and promising young researchers and students who are researching the history and cultural legacy of the Galician and Bukovinian Jewry until the eve of World War 2.
Ludmer scholarships 2018-2020
Dr. Roee Goldschmidt (two years scholarship)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Kabbalistic Ethics and Jewish-Christian Relations in Galicia
Report 2019 (in Hebrew)
Report 2020 (in Hebrew)
Dr. Levi Cooper
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Galician Halakha”: The Nineteenth-Century Clothing Decrees as a Case Study
Report 2019 (in Hebrew)
Prizes 2017
Dr. Daniel Reiser
Zefat and Herzog Academic Colleges
Archival Examination of Hasidic Mystics in Galicia
The grant will be used for detailed examination of archives throughout the former Galicia: Krakow, Tarnow, Rzeszow, Sanok, Przemysl, and Lvov, with the aim of collecting biographical details about mystics operating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See more.
Daniela Mavor
University of Haifa
The Share of Jews in the Oil Industry in Drohobycz and Boryslaw
Dr. Roee Goldschmidt
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
DORSHEY RESHUMOT: Rhetoric, Textuality, Talmudic Casuistry and Social Status in Eastern European Homiletic Literature
Asif Rachamim
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ein Gegenwort: The Poetics of Paul Celan and Avot Yeshurun. A Comparative Study
Chen Bram
Truman Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
To Galicia and Back: Heritage Journey and the Construction of a Local- Communal Memory
Awards 2015
The project on Galicia and Bukovina award for an outstanding PhD student
Mr. Noam Samet
Ben-Gurion University, department of Jewish thought
Mr. Samet writes his dissertation on "Sefer Kzot Hahoshen", under the supervision of Dr. Rami Reiner. He excells in his PhD studies and earned an MA in Jewish thought in Ben-Gurion University with great honors.
Noam Samet's research summary (Hebrew)
The project on Galicia and Bukovina award for an outstanding MA student
Mr. Ezra Brom
Ben-Gurion University, department of Jewish thought
Mr. Brom writes his MA thesis, titled: "Foundations of Nationalism in the writings of Nachman Krochmal and its acceptance in the circle of Ahad Ha'am" under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Meir. He has a BA in both Jewish thought and psychology.
Ezra Brom's research summary (Hebrew)
