The annual Bialik Prizes for literature and science were awarded today on the occasion of the 71st birthday of the late Hebrew poet, who died ten years ago. The awards were presented in his home and the ceremonies were broadcast over the Palestine radio.
First prize of £100 for literature went to A. A. Kabak for his novel “The Empty Spaces,” dealing with the formative period of the “Lovers of Zion” organization in Russia, which was the forerunner of the modern Zionist movement. Second prize, also $100, was awarded to a young scientist, Dr. Pollack, for his research on the Khazars, a Crimean people which became converted to Judaism about the ninth century. Dr. Pollack was born in Kiev and studied at the Hebrew University.
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