I. Category:
To conduct research on Russian and East European Jewish culture and history.

Condition: Each grant amounts to $300 per month. An applicant for the grant could include a budget for additional expenses that would be needed for research activities. This request would be funded in full or in part. The effective period of the grant is one year.

Winners:

Ivanov Vladislav Vasilievich, Doctor of Art. Head of the Theater Department, State Institute of Art Studies. Topic: GOSET: Politics and Art. 1919 -1928.

Mogilner Marina Borisovna, Ph.D. (history). Kazan State University, Department of History, Chair of historiography. Topic: Jewish Anthropology in Russia (the late 19th – early 20th century). Searching for Jewish Race.

Dymshitz Valeriy Aronovich, Doctor of Chemistry. Executive director of the Center for Study of Monuments of Jewish Culture and Establishing the Jewish Museum “Petersburg Judaica”. Topic: Jewish Ethnography and Folklore.

Uritskaya Lyudmila Borisovna, the Russian Ethnographic Museum, chief consultant. Topic: Ashkenazi Collections in the Russian Ethnographic Museum.

Ivanov Anatoliy Evgeniyevich, Doctor of History. Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. Topic: Socio-cultural Portrait of Jewish Students of Higher Education Establishments in the Russian Empire.

Burmistrov Konstantin Yurievich, Editor-in-chief of the almanac Parallels, the House of Jewish Books (Moscow); Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, department of Oriental philosophies, Research fellow; Jewish University in Moscow, Professor; Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute of Oriental Cultures, post-graduate student. Topic: The Role of Jewish Mysticism in Russia’s Intellectual History in the 19th – early 20th century.

Kovalev Boris Nikolayevich, Doctor of History. Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, Faculty of Law, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Professor. Topic: Collaborationism and the Holocaust in Russia.

Morozov Konstantin Nikolayevich, Ph.D. (history). Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Department of History, Associate professor. Charniy Semyon Alexandrovich, Russian State University for the Humanities, Post-graduate student; Science, Information and Enlightenment Center Memorial, Research Fellow. Topic: Jewish Members of Parties in Opposition to the Soviet Regime (October 25, 1917 – late 30s). Materials to Biographic Dictionary.

II. Category:
To publish a manuscript on the problems of the history and culture of the Russian and East European Jewry.

Condition: To publish a manuscript on the problems of Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Winners:

Antropova Irina Evgeniyevna, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Office in Central Russia and the Volga region, Historian and archivist of the project. Topic: Collections of Documentary Materials on the History of the Jews of the Urals Stored in Pre-Soviet Archives of the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region.

III. Category:
To complete dissertation research on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Winners:

Snopov Yuri Anatolievich, Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Graduate student. Topic: Jewish Religious and Communal Life in Moscow and the Moscow Region during the Soviet Era.

Lvov Alexander Leonidovich, The European University in St Petersburg (EUSP), Department of ethnology, Graduate student. Topic: The Russians Judaizes: Religious Practices and Interaction of Cultures.

IV. Category:
To publish defended candidates’ theses on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture as the monographs.

Condition: The grant amounts to $300 per month. The effective period of the grant is one year.

Winners:

Sokolova Alla Victorovna, Ph.D. (architecture). Center for the Study of Monuments of Jewish Culture and Establishing the Jewish Museum “Petersburg Judaica”, Research fellow. Topic: Architecture of the Shtetl. Image and Reality (based on materials from field studies in Podoliya).

Eliazberg Galina Arkadievna, Ph.D. (philology). Russian-American Education and Research Center for Bible and Judaic Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Professor of history of Yiddish literature. Topic: S. L. Zinberg: Essay on Life and Work.

V. Category:
For visits connected with the study of the problems of the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Winners:

Kalmina Liliya Vladimirovna, Ph.D. (history). Irkutsk State University, Department of Russian history and political science. Topic: Pre-Revolutionary History of Jewish Communities in Eastern Siberia.

VI. Category:
Prizes for the best annual thesis or other work by students of Russian higher education establishments on Russian and East European Jewish culture and history.

Condition: The following prizes are awarded based on the results of the contest: one first prize of $500, two second prizes of $250 and three third prizes of $150 each.

Winners:

Second prize: Rashkovskiy Boris Evgeniyevich, Russian State University for the Humanities, Mark Block Russian-French Center of Historic Anthropology Studies; 4th year student. Topic: The choice of Faith by the Hazars. Problems of Historiography.

Third prize: Kochurova Olga Alexandrovna, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Center of Jewish Civilization Studies; 4th year student. Topic: Emigration from Russia to Palestine in the late 19th – Early 20th Centuries.

VII. Category:
SScholarships for students of higher education establishments, students of Master programs, first-year graduate students of Russian and East European Jewish culture and history provided by the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies.

Condition: The main objective of the competition is to encourage the development of this Topic by students, students of the Master programs, as well as graduate students, to train highly qualified specialists in the study of Russian and East European Jewish history and heritage, as well as to expand academic knowledge on this subject.
Scholarships are provided for one academic year.
Scholarships amount to $100 or $200.
Scholarships are provided on a competitive basis.

Winners:

Yevgeniya Khazdan, graduate student, Music Department, Russian Institute of Art History, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dissertation topic: “Nigun as a Phenomenon in Traditional Jewish Musical Culture: Based on Materials of the Habad Lubavich Community”.

Olga Kochurova, Institute on Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, Center for the Study of Jewish Civilization, fourth year. Research topic: “History of the Repatriation of Jews from Russia to Palestine”.

Eduard Greenberg, Institute on Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University, Center for Judaism and Jewish Civilization, third year. Research topic: “Jewish Chronicles of the Time of Khmelnitsky in the context of the Jewish Philosophy of History and the Intellectual life of Jewish Communities of the Rech Pospolita during the 17th Century”.

Maria Romanova, Institute on Asian and African Countries at Moscow State University, Center for Judaica and Jewish Civilization, third year. Research topic: “The Influence of Russian Jews on the Development of Russian-Israeli Relations”.

Oleg Semenov, S. Dubnov Higher Humanitarian School (formerly the Jewish University in Moscow), Faculty of History, third year. Research topic: “Government Anti-Semitism in Russia from 1881 to 1917: Effects of Jewish Participation in the Revolutionary Movement during the Period of Counter-reforms or Economic Competition?”

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