Students Announcements for June 2013

          The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that the UW graduating class of 2013 will include three Jewish studies majors and 12 students receiving a certificate (in effect a minor) in the field.

          The majors are Melissa Dahl, Arielle Salsberg and Elliana Smerling. The certificate recipients are Zachary Cherny, Grace Fantle, Shira Flesch, Emily Grant, Sarah Langer, Rachel Lerman, Joshua Lieberthal, Cory Meyer, Maxwell Reisbaum, Michelle Silver, Malia Silvert and Danielle Topp.

          In addition, the center awarded nearly $20,000 in scholarships and grants to seven students.

          Two graduate students, Aliza Luft(Sociology)and Irene Resenly(Curriculum and Instruction) are pursuing dissertation research on the Holocaust. Luft, a recipient of both the Berman Scholarship and a Mazursky Grant, will spend the summer in France. A winner of the Lipton Study Abroad award, Resenly will attend the Leo Baeck Summer University in Berlin, taking a six-week summer course on German-Jewish history.

          Two undergraduates, Christine Kopanon and Geoffrey Ludvik, received funds for travel. Kopanon, another recipient of a Lipton Study Abroad award, will take part in the Helix Project, a program that introduces students to Jewish cultural history in the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania.

          Ludvik, who took part in an archaeological dig in Tell el-Hesi, Israel last summer, will present his findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Baltimore. His trip will be supported in part by a Charles and Gayle Mazursky Grant.

          Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt, a graduate student in the department of history, received the David Sorkin Award and a Mazursky grant to support her early dissertation research in Argentina and Chile.

          English graduate student Laini Kavaloski was given the Natelson Award, given to the best overall student in Jewish Studies.

          Michael Felknor, an undergraduate majoring in Jewish Studies and Hebrew, received the Lipton Major/Certificate Award and the Tobias Major/Certificate Scholarship. His translations of Hebrew poetry can be found on his blog, soulandgone.com.