2025 Award Ceremony
Senior and Young Scholars Awards for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience
Salo W. Baron famously described the Jewish experience as follows: “Suffering is part of the destiny” of the Jewish people “but so is repeated joy and ultimate redemption.” The Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience will therefore recognize achievements of the highest excellence of researchers from all fields of study whose work focuses on the relationship of Jews and non-Jews and perceptions and understandings of Judaism in the wider societies in which they live, including but not limited to the history, culture, religion, and institutions of the Jewish people as well as their persecution.
- “ It is with pride and humility that I accept the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Senior Scholar Award from the University of Vienna. Dr. Baron's brilliance, creativity, and analytic acumen have served as models throughout my career. His intellectual and personal collaboration with the equally talented Jeannette M. Baron is a reminder that none of us work in isolation, and that passionate, engaged conversation shapes the very best scholarship. - Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Sarah Abrevaya Stein, third laureate of the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Senior Awards 2025
PROGRAM
WHEN
Monday, 26 May 2025
6.00 - 7.30 p.m. CEST (Vienna summer time)
WHERE
WHO
Welcome Address
Salo Baron's Legacy: On the Occasion of his 130th Birthday
Prof. Dr. Armin Lange, Executive Organizer
Award Ceremony
Presentation of the Baron Awards to Sarah Abrevaya Stein and the two winners of the Young Scholars Awards
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schütze, Rector of Vienna University
Charles Knapp, President of the Knapp Family Foundation
Laudatio
Prof. Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University
Festive Lecture
Jews in Wartime North Africa: Experiences of fascism, occupation and the Holocaust
Prof. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA
Wine Reception (kosher)
