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Samuel Bud Shorstein Writing Awardees 2024-2025

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Academic essay winner: Gavriella Cohen Winning submission: “Jewish Particularity and French Culpability in The Last of the Just” Gavriella explains the essay: My topic, developed in Dr. Zachmann’s class on Holocaust Memory in France, is André Schwarz-Bart’s remarkable post-war novel, The Last of the Just (1959). I dissect the novel’s use of textual structures and […]

Samuel Bud Shorstein Writing Awardees 2023-2024

Research paper co-winner: Alex Boutin-Johnson Major: English and French major Winning submission: “Instruments of Alterity in the Dreyfus Affair” written for the class “The Dreyfus Affair” taught by Dr. Gayle Zachmann. Alexander explains the paper: “The Dreyfus Affair” was an incident at the turn of the 20th century involving allegations and imprisonment of a Jewish […]