Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, director of the Institute of Hebrew Studies at New York University, has received the first annual $500 Shneider-man Literary Prize presented by the Moriah Publishing Society for the Recovery and Publication of Jewish Religious Works. The prize was established by A. L. Shneiderman, a resident of Caracas, Venezuela.
The Shneiderman Prize, given for “outstanding Hebrew thought and original scholarship,” was awarded to Dr. Katsh for his translation into Hebrew from Arabic of the Judeo Arabic Midrash on Genesis by David Hanagid. The work was discovered by Dr. Katsh in the manuscript collection of the Baron David Guensburg Collection of the Moscow public library. In addition to translating the manuscript into Hebrew, Dr. Katsh provided editorial commentary and notes. Rabbi David Hanagid, of Cairo, was a grandson of Maimonides, medieval Jewish philosopher and theologian.
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