Emma Lazarus Award 2014 Post Ceremony
2014 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award
The Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Historical Society cordially invite you to the 2014 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award to honor award-winning author and historian Simon Schama. Simon Schama is a University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and a Contributing Editor of the Financial Times.
He is the author of sixteen books and the writer-presenter of more than forty documentaries on art, history, and literature for BBC2. His art criticism for The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Criticism in 1996. His film on Bernini from The Power of Art won an Emmy in 2007 and his series A History of Britain and The American Future: A History won Broadcast Critics Guild awards. He won the NCR nonfiction prize for Citizens, National Book Critics Circle Award for Rough Crossings, the WH Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory. He writes on cooking and food for GQ; fashion for Harper's Bazaar; and on everything else for the FT. He curated the Government Art Collection show Travelling Light at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and has collaborated with Anslem Keifer, John Virtue, and Cecile B. Evans on contemporary art exhibitions and installations.
His latest project is The Story of the Jews, which was broadcast on television and published as a book in the UK in autumn 2013, and in the U.S. in spring 2014. The second volume of The Story of the Jews is due to be published in autumn 2014.
2014 Emma Lazarus Award Dinner Photos
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With grateful appreciation to our Trustees whose generous support enables AJHS to continue its work
Officers
Kenneth J. Bialkin, Chairman Emeritus
Sidney Lapidus, Chairman
Paul B. Warhit, Vice Chair
Bernard J. Michael, President
Nancy T. Polevoy, Vice President
Andrew E. Lewin, Vice President
Joshua H. Landes, Vice President
Samuel R. Karetsky, Treasurer
Louise P. Rosenfeld, Assistant Treasurer
Rachel Lithgow, Executive Director
Riv-Ellen Prell, Chair, Academic Council
Trustees
Stanley I. Batkin
Kenneth J. Bialkin*
Ronald C. Curhan
Deborah Dash Moore
Ruth B. Fein*
George M. Garfunkel
Michael G. Jesselson
Arnold H. Kaplan
Samuel R. Karetsky
Harvey M. Krueger
Joshua H. Landes
Sidney Lapidus*
Andrew E. Lewin
Norman Liss
Bernard J. Michael
Jeffrey Oppenheim, MD
Steven D. Oppenheim
Nancy T. Polevoy
Riv-Ellen Prell
Arnold J. Rabinor Z”L
Louise P. Rosenfeld
Bruce Slovin
Jacob Stein Z”L
Joseph S. Steinberg
Morton M. Steinberg
Rabbi Lance J. Sussman
Ronald S. Tauber
Paul B. Warhit
Justin L. Wyner*
Hedy Zankel
Laurence Zuckerman
Honorary Life Trustees
Sheldon S. Cohen
Alan M. Edelstein
Robert D. Gries
Nathan Kaplan
Dr. Arthur S. Obermayer
Sue R. Warburg
* past presidents
