Incoming faculty member Dr. Tamar Menashe, a historian of late medieval and early modern Jewish and European history, was recently awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize by the German Historical Institute. Menashe’s dissertation is titled “The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690.” A graduate of Columbia University, Menashe will join Emory’s Department of History and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies this fall as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She will begin her appointment as the Jay and Leslie Cohen Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies in Fall 2023.