Professor Rina Lapidus
Bar Ilan University

Grants, Awards and Prizes



1998-99: Research Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, for my book "Between Snow and Desert Heat - Russian Influences on Hebrew Literature: 1870 – 1970".


1996: Israeli President’s Prize, Israel Foundation for Young Writers, for my book "The Hebrew Essay: Semantics, Genre, Poetics", Israel


1995: Prize, Fund for Encouraging First Books in the Literature Branch of the Public Council for Culture and the Arts, for my book "The Hebrew Literary Essay: Semantics, Poetics, and Genre”


1993-1995: Research Grant for the project “The Works of Y. L. Gordon in the Russian Language”, Research Authority, Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv


1990: Research Fellowship for sabbatical at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford


1986-87: Research Fellowship for sabbatical at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford


1986: Fellowship by the Goethe Institute, under the auspices of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - under the Academic Exchange Service of Germany)


1985-86: Research Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York


1985: Lea Goldberg Prize for Research in Hebrew Literature, the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Jerusalem


1985: Fellowship by the Goethe Institute under the auspices of the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - under the Academic Exchange Service of Germany)


1984-85: Research Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York


1983-1987: PhD Stipendium, Institute for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem


1982: Prize for Research in Hebrew Literature, Association for Professional and Academic Women, Office of Women in Higher Education at the American Council on Education, Israeli branch


1980-1982: MA Stipendium, Institute for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem


1982: Max Olswanger Prize for Research in Jewish Folklore, the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Jerusalem


1981: Harry Hershon Prize for Literary Prose Writings, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem


1978-1980: BA Stipendium for Outstanding students, Institute for Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem