Association for Jewish Studies Honors Michela Andreatta
Michela Andreatta—2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards Finalist, Jewish Literature and Linguistics
Congratulations to Michela Andreatta, an associate professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the Department of Religion and Classics, and co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies at URochester. Andreatta was awarded finalist in Jewish Literature and Linguistic category of the 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards by the Association for Jewish Studies at the AJS Conference in December. AJS, the main academic organization for Jewish Studies in the United States, annually awards one winner and one finalist in each category of the annual book prize.
Andreatta was named a finalist for her book Hell Arrayed (Tofteh ‘arukh): A Seventeenth-Century Hebrew Poem on the Punishment of the Wicked in the Afterlife (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies at the University of Toronto,2023). Completion of the book was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities individual fellowship (NEH Fel-267562-20). The book was previously selected for Honorable Mention (Best Translation) for the Mediterranean Seminar Prize for the Best Source Edition, Book Translation, or Essay Collection 2025. Hell Arrayed is now available open access thanks to a dedicated grant by the Humanities Center at URochester.