Call for applications: AAJR Baron Book Prize

The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize.  The Baron Book Prize ($3,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish studies.

Eligibility:  An academic book, in English, in any area of Jewish studies published in calendar year 2021.  The work must be the author’s first scholarly book. Authors must have received their Ph.D. within the previous seven years, no earlier than 2014.

Deadline: January 31, 2022


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About Martina Mampieri

Martina Mampieri holds a double Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies at the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg. She is currently a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she works on her second book project on Isaiah Sonne. In 2018-20, she held other postdoctoral positions at Sapienza University of Rome, the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes in Paris, Harvard University, and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at Georg-August-University of Göttingen. She is the author of Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche, 16th cent. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020) as well as several articles on Italian Jewry and books in the early modern period.