Annual Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies

The Association for Israel Studies annually awards the Yonathan Shapiro prize for the best book in Israel Studies published during the calendar year. This award honors the memory of Shapiro (1929-1997), one of Israel’s most distinguished and influential sociologists, by recognizing outstanding scholarship in the history, politics, society and culture of Israel and pre-1948 Jewish Palestine.
       The Shapiro Award Committee will consider books in either English or Hebrew, in the social sciences and the humanities. Nominations should be made by the publisher of the book, who should send a copy of the book to each member of the Shapiro Best Book Award. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 2007.

The 2007 Shapiro Award Committee

Esther Fuchs Near Eastern Studies/Judaic Studies Marshall Building, Rm 442 University of Arizona Tucson AZ 85721-0158 USA

Ruth Linn Faculty of Education Brazil Building Haifa University Haifa 31905 Israel

Zeev Rosenhek Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication The Open University of Israel P.O. Box 808 Raanana 43107 Israel

 

2006 Shapiro Winners: Aviva Halamish and Assaf Likhovski

The Association for Israel Studies has awarded the Shapiro Prize, for the best book in Israel  studies during  2006, to two winners:

Aviva Halamish ,  Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazeman  [A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi)

Assaf  Likhovski,  Law and Identity in Mandate Palestine  (University of  Carolina Press)

The prize will be awarded at the AIS annual  meeting  at the Open University in Ra'anana, Israel, on June 11, 2007.  Members of the Award Committee were Peter Medding, Hebrew University (Chair), Margalit Shilo, Bar-Ilan University, and Ronald Zweig, New York University.

 

Past winners of the Shapiro Award are:

2004, for books published in 2002-2003 (biannual award)
Co-winners:

Yehouda Shenhav, Heyehudim Ha'araviim: Leumiut, Dat v'Etniut [The Arab Jews: Nationality, Religion, and Ethnicity].  Am Oved, 2003

Gad Barzilai, Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities.  University of Michigan Press, 2003

2006, for books published in 2004-2005 (biannual award)

Orit Kamir, She’ela shel Kavod: Yisraeli’ut U’khevod Ha’adam [Israeli Honor and Dignity: Social Norms, Gender Politics and the Law]. Carmel Publishers, 2004