Theresa Levinger Research Prize
The Strochlitz Institue awards annual research prizes in memory of Theresa Levinger in the amount of ₪5,000. The prize, generously sponsored by the Weiss family, the Ish-Shalom family, and the Tzach family, is awarded for master’s theses and doctoral dissertations that address Holocaust memory from psychological, cultural, and social perspectives.
In the year 2024-2025, the Center awarded two prizes for master’s theses and doctoral proposals:
Jovana Cveticanin, doctoral candidate at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Dissertation topic: Yugoslavia and the Shoah 1944-1991 (supervised by Prof. Hanna Yablonka)
Rebecca Baum, master’s thesis topic: The story of eight Dutch women who became camp guards in K Herzogenbusch [Vught] and KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau
For more information: Levinger Prize – Call for Porporals
Research Prize from the Strochlitz Institute
In 2025, the Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Studies awarded a research prize in the amount of ₪5,000 for a doctoral dissertation to:
Tom Ashed, “The Instrumentalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Cultural Diplomacy, 1953-2005” (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, supervised by Prof. Amos Goldberg)