Prizes

Undergraduate
Yonas Campbell, ‘Essay assessing the representation of an imperial power in the apocalyptic text 4 Ezra'

Postgraduate
Samuel Odgen, ‘The Pogroms of the Russian Civil War: A Third Wave of Antisemitism?'

Ellena Lockyer, 'Essay examining the Zionist responses to the Holocaust during Israel’s pre-state period, compared to Israel’s Zionist attitudes surrounding the Eichmann Trial'

Undergraduate
Nico Zavrou Blackstock, 'How far was the 'Birkath-ha-Minim' a key factor in the 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity?'

Highly commended: Nathan Trill, ‘The Predominance of Economic Grievances over Nationalism as a Driving Force for Austro-Hungarian Antisemitism, 1873–1911’

Postgraduate
Eleanor Joyce, ‘”Athanasius is one who can be trusted”: how did Athanasius of Alexandria respond to Jews, ‘pagans’ and Christianities in Alexandria in the fourth century CE?’

Highly commended: Rob Thompson: 'How have historians understood British memory of Belsen?'

Undergraduate
Josh Burns, 'To what extent is it possible to spak of "Christian" identity in the first century?'

Postgraduate
Ewa Szymonik, 'The Role of Legend of Franz Joseph 1 in the Identity of Jews in Galicia'

Undergraduate
William Holt, 'How does Josephus use the Jewish scriptures to formulate his theodicy regarding the Destruction of the Temple?'

Lucy Morris, 'The identity of, and reactions to, the Jews of South Wales'

Postgraduate
Aimée Atkinson, 'What does Revelation 21-22 suggest about the identity of the early Christian communities?'

Undergraduate
Adam Groves, ' "The Capital of Mediterranean Cool": Tel Aviv and Israel’s Mediterranean Identity in the Twenty-First Century'

Postgraduate
Nicola Woodhead, 'An analysis of the educational provisions relating to the Kindertransport from the National Archives and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust'

Undergraduate
David Ainsworth, ‘What was the effect of unification on German-Jewish identities?’

Postgraduate
Katarzyna Dziekan, ‘How and to what extent did Jacob Frank challenge the prevailing political framework of Jewish and Sabbatian communities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?’

Jacqueline Hughes, ‘How did German Jews immigrating to Palestine in the 1930s encounter their new homeland?’

Undergraduate
Sadie Banyard, 'Were the organisations set up and actions taken by the established Anglo-Jewish community to deal with immigrants concerned with social control or were they motivated by altruism?'

Postgraduate
Katie Power, ‘How true to the original text was the 1925 GOSET interpretation of Isaac L. Peretz’s Bay Nakht Afn Altn Mark (At Night in the Old Marketplace)?'

Undergraduate
Hannah Corkerry, ‘How would you explain the scarcity of Jewish armed resistance in the ghettos?’

Postgraduate
Will Chivers, ‘Trauma, Resistance and Resettlement in Jewish Humour: a lens through which to view the Jewish experience in the diaspora?'

Undergraduate
Katherine Webb, 'The Roman Annexation of Egypt in 30BCE and the Treatment of the Jews'

Postgraduate
Rebecca White, 'Vladimir Jabotinksy's The Five, a Discourse on Odessa'

Undergraduate
Katherine Parker, 'To what extent can I. G. Farben as a company be said to be complicit in the Final Solution; was it simply a crime amongst individuals?'

Postgraduate
Alexandra Cunningham, 'Assimilation and the Anglo-Jewish woman: The relationship between Jewish women and the emancipation and assimilation of Anglo Jewry 1835-1914'

Undergraduate
Matthew Rabagliati, 'Has Israel become a Third Space?'

Postgraduate
Laura Shattock, 'Music in The Pianist (2002): Assessing the Effectiveness and Authenticity of Polanski’s use of Chopin for the Film’s Soundtrack'

Undergraduate
Rhys Griffiths, ‘ “There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument”: The Art of Post-Holocaust Remembrance in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated'

Postgraduate
Sarah Shawyer, 'Comparative Analysis of Two Testimonies from The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies'

Undergraduate
Alex Jones, 'Unravelling Threads: Contextualising the Women of the Hebrew Bible, and their Impact'

Postgraduate
Lucy Gaughan, 'Exile-as-Tourism in the (re) construction of a Postmodern Jewish identity: A Discussion on Howard Jacobson’s Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews'

Undergraduate
Tom Sharrad, 'Representations of London’s East End Through Literature: Israel Zangwill’s Children of The Ghetto & Monica Ali’s Brick Lane'
(Tom Sharrad's essay also won the BAJS prize the same year)

Postgraduate
Hannah Ewence, 'The Impact of Immigration on the Jewish Male'

Diana Piopescu, 'A literary transition from “longing” to “belonging”, confronting “the motherland”: the changing perceptions of the land of Israel'

Daniel Rickards, 'The Next Evolutionary Phase of Holocaust Denial'

Isabelle Townsend, '"Unfeminine" Behaviour in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Use of Violence and Sexuality as Methods of Survival Among Female Prisoners'

Liam McGlynn, 'Gender in the art of the Weimar Republic'

Elizabeth Oliver, 'The memorialisation of the Holocaust is incomplete, and […] the Holocaust demands debate within contemporary Germany and international society.'

Sarah Whittington, 'Female experiences in the Holocaust'

Jade Bone, 'Memory of the Kindertransport'