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2024-2025 Recipients of the Charlotte Brozer Shapiro Paper Prize

December 15, 2025 Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies | Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

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Congratulations to our three recipients; Lilah Cohen, Nathan Maya, and Maya Pollack.

Lilah Cohen

 

Lilah Cohen, 'The Creatress is Enveloped in the Dust of Death': Women and Religious Liminality in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Mesopotamian Society, written for a seminar on the Epic of Gilgamesh, JWST427/RELS427 with Professor Matthew Suriano.

 

 

 

Nathan Maya

 

Nathan Maya, 'Jacob and Esau: Biblical Archetypes and Modern Jewish Identity, written for a course Jewry of Muscle: Zionism and Jewish Masculinity, ISRL372/JWST372,  with Professor Shirelle Doughty.

 

 

 

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Maya Pollack, 'Glikl Memoirs', written for a course Martyrs & Merchants, Lawyers & Mystics, Magicians & Messiahs: Jews Between Medieval and Modern Times, HIST373/JWST333 with Professor Bernard Cooperman.