The 10th Anniversary of the Ephraim Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program will take place at the Biennial Meeting of the Board of Trustees Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

This prestigious program, initiated and funded by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in cooperation with the World Union of Jewish Studies, provides support for the most promising young Jewish scholars around the world, recent recipients of doctorates in a field of Jewish culture, in launching their scholarly careers by publishing their first book and supporting research in their area of specialization.

Program Chair: Prof. Anita Shapira, President Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

Opening Remarks: Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Immediate Past President, The World Union of Jewish Studies

Panel of Urbach Recipients:
Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar-Ilan University: Gender and Jewish History
Prof. Avinoam Rosenak, Hebrew University: Halacha and Jewish Thought
Prof. Ron Margolin, Tel-Aviv Univesity: Jewish Religious Secularism in Israel
Prof. Manuela Consonni, Hebrew University: After Auschwitz: The Snares of Memory