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    2022 Dan David Prize winners
    March 2, 2022
    Dan David Prize goes to 9 history scholars, each gets $300K

    The Dan David Prize board said the nine are being recognized for “breakthrough achievements in the study of the past” in new and creative ways

    The Associated Press

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    An example of the types of records Kimberly Welch uses in her research of Black litigants in the antebellum South. (Kimberly Welch)
    March 1, 2022
    A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners

    Natalia Romik had just returned to Warsaw from a five-week research trip through Kyiv’s sewers and caves, where she studies Jewish hiding places during the Holocaust, when she learned she had won the Dan David Prize.

    Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post

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    Sept. 15, 2021
    With Truth Under Attack Daily, a Big Philanthropic Prize Will Celebrate the Study of History

    At $300,000 per award, the Dan David Prize is significant for a couple of reasons. For one, it’s the biggest prize for scholars in history. Also, it will go to people in the early or middle stages in their careers, the better to enable them to advance their work.

    Paul Karon, Inside Philanthropy

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    Sept. 15, 2021
    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 from childhood to adulthood
    Sept. 9, 2021
    Listen to Dan David's story

    How a poor but resourceful immigrant in Tel Aviv found the machine that would ultimately earn his fortune.

    The Promised Podcast, TLV1

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    Dan David
    Sept. 5, 2021
    Dan David Prize relaunches, now the world's largest history award

    Beginning in May 2022, The Dan David Prize is relaunching as an award that

    Jerusalem Post Staff

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