The Artzyeli Award commemorates the late Eleanor Artzyeli (1936-1987), who taught in our department - and in whose memory the department was dedicated back in 1988. Eleanor Artzyeli taught first-year writing, among other subjects, and the award is given annually to excellent first-year students in literature and linguistics.
Recent winners of the Artzyeli Award
2021: Tama Bar-Haim, Yuval Koren, Ayelet Levy, Adan Shekh-Yosef
2020: Tsuf Enosh; Nitzan Malkiel
2019: Yuval Elimelech; Adan Masre; Madian Sarsur
2018: Eden Ashkenazi, Shaimaa
El-Sayeed, Tal Maletin, Shira Shinar
2017: Gal Abramovitz, Neta Kline
2016: Yoav Tulpan, Yarden Vardi
2015: Amit Kempler, Priel Cohanim
2014: Olga Baskrovny, Michal Calo
2013: Reem Al-Asam, Noa Gal
2012: Nivi Mor
2011: Or Roth
2010: Niki Kotsenko
2009: Valerie Khaskin
The Berkove Award was created by the late Professor Lawrence Berkove (1930-2018), from the University of Michigan, a prolific scholar who specialized in the work of Mark Twain and in the Sagebrush School. The award is given biannually to recognize student achievements (undergraduate or graduate) in the field of American literature.
Past winners of the Berkove Award
2021: Tom Cohen
2019: Shira Levy
2017: Michal Calo
2015: Leonard Stein
2013: Danielle Rubin [honorable mention: Shimron Tubman]
2011: Shlomi Deloia
