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    Dan David Prize becomes largest history award in world

    Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history

    Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel

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    Dan David Prize becomes largest history award in world

    Headquartered at Tel Aviv University, endowment will give 9 scholars $300,000 apiece for achievements in study of human history

    Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel

    The prestigious Dan David Prize from Tel Aviv University is being relaunched as the largest history prize in the world, and will award up to nine $300,000 prizes each year to scholars for achievements in the study of the human past.

    The Dan David Prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University. In addition to the nine prizes of $300,000 for individuals, $300,000 will go to establish a new international program for postdoctoral fellows who study history at Tel Aviv University.

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    Interview with Mirjam Brusius
    31 March 2022
    Interview with Mirjam Brusius

    The museums expert explains how every historical artefact has not just one story, but many

    Simon Baker, Times Higher Education

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    Dr. Efthymia Nikita sees our connectivity through time and space
    30 March 2022
    Dr. Efthymia Nikita sees our connectivity through time and space

    The Dan David Prize winner integrates human skeletal data with archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and historical evidence in order to form a more well-rounded view of the past.

    Judith Sudilovsky, The Jerusalem Post

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    How MacKenzie Scott’s $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she supports
    28 March 2022
    How MacKenzie Scott’s $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she supports

    We asked philanthropy historian Tyrone Freeman to weigh in on Scott’s approach to donating large sums of money and her emphasis on other forms of generosity.

    Tyrone McKinley Freeman, The Conversation

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