Scholarships and Grants
Undergraduate Funding
Undergraduate Scholarships For Majors
Qualified students may apply for a scholarship (up to $2000 may be awarded) for all or part of the coming academic year. Eligibility requirements include: declared major in Hebrew, Yiddish, or Jewish Studies; 3.0 cum GPA; 15 hours completed in the major at time of receipt of the scholarship (at least 10 of these at or above 400-level). Students may apply for a scholarship in the spring quarter of each year. Students who anticipate fulfilling all requirements by the end of the summer or fall quarter should also apply at this time. Upon demonstration of completion of anticipated work, they will receive a scholarship prorated in accordance with the number of quarters remaining in the academic year.Click for Undergraduate Scholarships
* The Morris and Fannie Skilken Family Foundation Program in Yiddish
Provides scholarships and funding up to $1000 to support for students of Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies.* Vic Cohn Scholarship for Study at The Hebrew University
Provides travel scholarship for study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.* Roth Memorial Fund Essay Contest
This contest is open to any currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students who have written a paper on a topic related to Jewish Studies. Essay topics may include any aspect of Jewish Studies (Bible, language, literature, history, philosophy, sociology, culture of Israel, rabbinics, etc.). First prize is $500; second prize is $300.Roth Memorial Fund Essay Contest information.
* George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Fund for study at Vilnius Yiddish Institute
Major financial support will be given to one student who wishes to attend the summer program at the Vilnius Yiddish Institute in Lithuania.* Gretel B. Bloch Endowed Scholarship Fund
$1,000 scholarship is given to a student engaged in Jewish Studies to help coordinate a program highlighting topical issues of current concern in Jewish life, culture and history.* Deadline to apply for these scholarships is March 6, 2009.
Student Conference Travel (Applications Accepted Year-round)
Up to $500 per student per year is available for travel to an academic conference in which the student delivers a paper on a topic related to Jewish Studies; up to $100 is available for travel to a Jewish Studies conference in which a student does not read a paper.Student Travel & Research (Applications Accepter Year-round)
Up to $500 per undergraduate and $600 per graduate student is available for travel or research that is clearly related to a major project in Jewish Studies that forms part of the student's academic program.For further information, contact or stop by the center.
