Grants for studies in subjects of special interest to Jewish scholars were among the annual Guggenheim Fellowship awards for 1959, announced here today by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Dr. Theodor Gaster, professor of comparative religion at Dropsie College, Philadelphia, was given a fellowship for conducting studies of the religious communities of the ancient Samaritans. An award for continuing research in the history of the Jews in Italia and elsewhere in Asia was granted to Dr. Walter J. Fischel, professor of Semitic languages and literature at the University of California, at Berkeley.
Dr. Uriel Weinreich, associate professor of linguistics and Yiddish studies, at Columbia University, was given a fellowship for the study of the cultural and linguistic geography of Jewry in central and Eastern Europe. A grant for musical composition was awarded to Yehudi Wyner, composer and instructor of music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in New York.
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