SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATIONS BY
FELLOWS OF THE CENTRE

Research grants from both public and private sources, travel grants
for research purposes, and resource enhancement projects.

GEORGE BROOKE

Project title: Preparation of the principal edition of 28 fragmentary manuscripts from Qumran (4Q158-4Q186)
Source of funding: AHRB
Amount awarded: stlg15K
Project Dates: Sept 2000-Aug 2001

CATHY GELBIN

Project title: DAAD fellowship for the participation in the DAAD seminar “Boundaries Crossing Boundaries: Jewish Writing in Germany since the 1980’s”, Einstein Forum Potsdam
Source of funding: DAAD
Amount awarded: $2,000
Project Dates: June 24 - July 20, 2002

Project title: Visiting Scholar, Centre for Advanced Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
Source of funding: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Amount awarded: $2,000
Project Dates: August 2000

Project title: Dissertation Publishing Award, Stiftung “Zurückgeben” für jüdische Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kultur
Source of funding:
Amount awarded: DM 5,000
Project Dates: 1999

Project title: Cataloguing of Genizah MSS in Rylands Library
Source of funding: Friedberg Foundation, Toronto
Amount awarded: $35,000
Project dates: 2003-2004

Project title: Cataloguing of Genizah MSS in Rylands Library
Source of funding: Mr J. Dwek
Amount awarded: $10,000
Project dates: 2003-2004

Project title: Agunah Research Unit
Source of funding: Harbour Trust
Amount awarded: 20k
Project dates: 2003-2006

Project title: Agunah Research Unit
Source of funding: Steinberg FamilyTrust
Amount awarded: 10k
Project dates: 2003-2005

Project title: Solving the Problem of the "Chained Wife" in Jewish Religious Law
Source of funding: Leverhulme Trust
Amount awarded: £152,848
Project dates: 2005-2008

SHARMAN KADISH

Project title: Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage Image library
Source of funding: British Academy
Amount awarded: 19,400
Project dates: 2003-04

Project Title: Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK & Ireland
Source of Funding: AHRB Resource Enhancement Scheme
Amount Awarded: 315,876 pounds sterling
Project Dates: 2004-2007

DANIEL LANGTON

Project title: Nathan Laski Jewish Studies Internet Resource
Source of funding: Nathan Laski Foundation
Amount awarded: stlg 1000
Project dates: Jan 2003

Project title: HEF Research fellowship, Northwestern University, Chicago
Source of funding: Holocaust Educational Foundation
Amount awarded: fees + 12 days board + airfare
Project dates: June 2003

Project title: CJS library cataloguing project
Source of funding: Kessler Foundation
Amount awarded: stlg 500
Project dates: July 2003

Project title: Nathan Laski Jewish Studies Internet Resource
Source of funding: Nathan Laski Foundation
Amount awarded: stlg 1000
Project dates: June 2004

Project title: Brandeis University
Source of funding: Brandeis University and American Jewish Committee
Amount awarded: fees + 12 days board + airfare + $2000 stipend
Project dates: June 2004

DANIEL LANGTON WITH BILL WILLIAMS

Project title: Refugees from Fascism in Manchester 1933-41
Source of funding: Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR)
Amount awarded: stlg 18K
Project dates: 2002-2004

YARON MATRAS

Project title: Morphosyntactic typology of Romani dialects: database enhancement
Source of funding: AHRB
Amount awarded: ca GBP 140k
Project dates: 2001-2004

ALEX SAMELY

Project title: Database of Midrashic Units in the Mishnah
Source of funding: AHRB
Amount awarded: stlg 5K
Project dates: 1994-1995

Project title: Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah
Source of funding: AHRB
Amount awarded: research grant leave
Project dates: 1998-1999

Project title: Basic features of early rabbinic thought
Source of funding: The Leverhulme Trust
Amount awarded: funding for replacement teaching during research leave
Project dates: 2003-2004

Project title: Typology of Pseudepigraphic and Anonymous Jewish Literature, c. 200 BCE to c. 700 CE
Source of funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council Large Project
Project dates: September 2007 to August 2011.
Amount awarded:stlg 536 K
Postgraduate studentships: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/

BILL WILLIAMS WITH DANIEL LANGTON

Project title: Refugees from Fascism in Manchester 1933-41
Source of funding: Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR)
Amount awarded: stlg 18K
Project dates: 2002-2004