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Elizabeth Imber<\/a>, associate professor of history and the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History, has been awarded the JCD-Herbert Katzki award from the Jewish Book Council for Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism<\/a><\/em>. She will receive the award at the 75th National Jewish Book Awards<\/a> on March 25 in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JCD-Herbert Katzki Award recognizes outstanding English-language books of modern Jewish history that rely heavily on archival research. Established by the\u00a0JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee)<\/a>, this award honors works that exhibit in-depth, scholarly use of primary sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imber\u2019s scholarship examines the cultural and political dimensions and intersections of Jewish history and European imperial history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Uncertain Empire<\/em>, her first book <\/em>(Stanford University Press, 2025), explores the multifaceted nature of Jewish politics in the British Empire during the rise of anticolonial national and transnational political movements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jew\u00adish Book Coun\u00adcil<\/a>, found\u00aded in 1943, is the longest-run\u00adning orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion devot\u00aded exclu\u00adsive\u00adly to the sup\u00adport and cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion of Jew\u00adish lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture. It has presented its book awards since 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Elizabeth Imber, the Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History, has been awarded the JCD-Herbert Katzki award from the Jewish Book Council for \u201cUncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":27200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[525],"tags":[530],"class_list":["post-27199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notables","tag-notables"],"yoast_head":"\nImber wins prestigious book prize | ClarkU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/imber-wins-prestigious-book-prize\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" 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