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The Joseph & Racheline Barda Chair for the Study and Research of Jewish Heritage in Egypt Award Winners

Award winner of 2024:
Mr. Avichail Mansura, Bar Ilan University, "Rabbi Shemuel ben Moshe ha-Levi ibn Ḥakan and his Rabbinic Corpus", supervised by Dr. Dotan Arad.

Award winner of 2023:
Mr. Yotam Schremer, Hebrew University, "The Ethical Purport of Maimonides' Philosophy in the Opening Section of his Legal Code", supervised by Prof.
Moshe Halbertal

Award winner of 2022:
Mr. Ofer Gabai, Tel Aviv University, "Yaqub Sanu's Theater as an Instrument for Social Criticism 1870--1872", supervised by Dr. Mira Ztoreff

Award winner of 2021:
Dr. Lilac Turgeman, University of Bar-Ilan, "Rabbi Nathan Amram: His Life and Works", supervised by Prof. Araron Gimani.

Award winner of 2020:
Sharona Zilbershtein, University of Haifa, "Pictured Narratives of Egyptian Jews Immigration between 1945-1970: Albums and Private Collections as Historic Sources", supervised by Prof. Uri. Kupferscmidt.

Award winner of 2019:
Dr. Neri Ariel, Hebrew University, "Manuals for Judges in Geonica: a Study of Genizah Fragments of Judeo-Arabic Monographic Genre", supervised by Prof. Robert Brody. 

Award winner of 2018:
Dr. Rachel Sarfati, The Firenze Scroll: Early Representations in the Visual Tradition of Depicting the Holy Sites", supervised by Prof. Elchanan Reiner. 

Award winner of 2017:

Mr. Moshe Yagur, Hebrew University, Abu al-Fakhr, Abu al-Khayr and Saada: Three Religious Conversions, and their Significance to the Boundaries of the Jewish Community in Medieval Egypt", supervised by Prof. Prof. Miriam Frenkel. 

Award winner of 2016:

Ms. Rachel Hasson-Kenat, Hebrew University, New manuscripts written in late Judaeo-Arabic from the Firkovitch collection – classification, description and sample texts, supervised by Prof. Simon Hopkins.

Award winner of 2015:
Mr. Amitai Harroch, Hebrew University, "The Poems of Sahlen Ben Avraham",  supervised by: Prof. Shulamit Elizur and Dr. Yehoshua Granat

Award winner of 2014:
Ms. Liat Maggid-Alon,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, "The Jewish Bourgeoisie of Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth-CenturyGender & Family as Perspectives",supervised by:Dr.Henriette Dahan-Kalev and Dr. Iris Agmon.