We are very pleased to announce that Emilie Wiedemann’s honours dissertation has won the 2016 undergraduate essay prize of the British Association for Jewish Studies. Emilie Wiedemann has recently graqduated from the School of Divinity with an MA Religious Studies and her Honours dissertation titled ‘Processes of narrative construction and the politics of memory in the interpretation of Holocaust art’ has one the 2016 undergraduate essay prize of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS https://britishjewishstudies.org/). The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) was founded in 1975 as a learned society and professional organization on a non-profit-making basis. Its aims are to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles. Annual BAJS Student Essay Prize Two prizes of £200, ordinarily for one outstanding undergraduate and one postgraduate essay by students at institutions in the UK and Ireland are awarded annually. You can read more about the BAJS award and its previous recipients on the website: https://britishjewishstudies.org/about/annual-bajs-student-essay-prize/ This article was published on 2024-03-19
