Deadline Approaching: 2024 Robert Silver Prize in Modern British Jewish History

The Robert Silver Prize invites essay submissions on a subject related to the impact of British Jewry on 20th century Britain.

Essays should be no more than 8,000 words and should include a summary version of 500 words. The winner will receive £1,000 and a short version of the winning essay will be published in the Jewish Chronicle.


Eligibility

Submissions are welcomed from undergraduate and postgraduate students, young academics, journalists and writers. Applicants should be a UK citizen or registered for an undergraduate/postgraduate programme within a UK university.


Deadline

The deadline for submissions is 19 April 2024.  Enquiries and submissions can be made to silverprize@hist.cam.ac.uk.  The Faculty encourages its alumni to spread news of the prize widely.  The winner will be announced before the end of the academic year.


Past Winners

Fearghal Grace (Cambridge), for ‘Jewish Ex-Servicemen and the 1935 Visit of the British Legion to Nazi Germany’ (2021);  Hollie Eaton (Oxford), for '"Blackguards in Bonnets": Women’s Suffrage, Judaism and Interfaith Relations, 1910-1914' (2022);  and Verity Laycock (Durham), for 'We Londoners? The Contribution of Jewish Female Émigré Designers to Metropolitan Visual Culture and Identity, c.1939-1970s' (2023).