Rebekka Voß’s book “Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture” has been awarded the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize on the History of the Jewish Diaspora

Prof. Dr. Rebekka Voß (Department of Jewish Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt) has been awarded the ‘Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the History of the Jewish Diaspora’ for the year 2024! For her book “Sons of Saviors: The Red Jews in Yiddish Culture” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). The prize honours the most outstanding scholarly work on the history of the Jewish Diaspora published in English in the previous calendar year.
Congratulations!!!


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.