Reminder: BIAJS 2025 Student Essay Prize
Reminder – Deadline for Submissions: 16 June 2025
This is a reminder that the BIAJS 2025 student essay prize remains open until the above date, for both the undergraduate and the postgraduate categories.
On behalf of the BIAJS committee, we are pleased to announce the launch of the 2025 BIAJS student essay prize. Two prizes of £400, ordinarily for one outstanding undergraduate and one postgraduate essay by students at institutions in the UK and Ireland, are awarded annually.
Undergraduate submissions should be a final year dissertation from the current academic year on a subject relating to Jewish Studies, broadly speaking of any period ancient through modern.
Postgraduate offerings should be an essay (excluding dissertations) submitted to their institution in the current academic year on a subject relating to Jewish Studies. Submissions by postgraduate research students are not considered.
Only one submission per candidate is allowed, although departments may submit as many prize-worthy candidates as they wish. Please provide an electronic copy of the essay, clearly identified as an undergraduate or postgraduate entry, and the email address of the student.
Submission can be made either by the supervisor of the essay or the department of which the student is a member and should be sent to Dr Lindsey Davidson (secretarybiajs@gmail.com), acting on behalf of the judging panel.
Submissions to the essay prizes are restricted to students at UK and Ireland higher education institutions; we are unfortunately not in a position to accept worldwide submissions. (We do, however, accept worldwide submissions for the book prize, each year.)
The deadline for submission is Monday 16 June 2025 at 11:59 PM.
The prize winners will be announced in July at the BIAJS 2025 conference and the written announcement to follow in mailings and the 2025 Bulletin.