The National Foundation for Jewish Culture announced today the inauguration of LaMed Awards, the first national awards program for Jewish scholarship and cultural achievements. Financed by annual grants of $2,000 by the Louis and Esther LaMed Fund, the program provides four $500 awards for scholarship and creative writing in the fields of Yiddish and Hebrew letters.
One of the awards will be given to a graduate student for a Master’s thesis dealing with a Jewish theme. Acceptance of the thesis by an accredited university in the United States or Canada is a prerequisite for the award. Another award will go to a writer for feature treatment of any phase of Jewish cultural enterprise, through an article or series of articles appearing in the Anglo-Jewish press of the United States or Canada. The third award will be given to a writer for creative writing in the field of Yiddish letters. Writers in any country in the Western Hemisphere are eligible. A fourth award will go to a writer for creative writing in the field of Hebrew letters, also open to all writers in the Western Hemisphere.
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture was established by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds at its General Assembly last November to enrich the field of Jewish culture, help achieve the most effective service on the part of existing Jewish cultural agencies and interpret the unmet needs in this field to the community.
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