Awards for TAU Graduate students

Each year, the Institute awards one-time research grants of up to NIS 5,000 to Tel Aviv University master’s and doctoral students whose approved research projects focus on the history and culture of Polish Jewry.

2025-2026 award recipients and their research project titles:

Tal Cohen

The Memory of the Holocaust as Reflected in the Orthodox Press, 1939–1961: Hahoma, Hamodi'a, and She'arim as Case Studies

Gil Faran

Escapes of Jewish Prisoners from Auschwitz

Pesia Farsi

Orthodox Rabbis’ Coping with the Issue of Agunoth of World War II and the Holocaust (1939–1960)

Yael-Paulina Robinson-Gottfeld

Experiences of Polish-Jewish Families in Poland between 1944 and 1950

Noam Werschner

Torah Scholars and Batei-midrash under the Nazi Occupation in Poland (1939–1944)