Free to enter, Leo Baeck Essay Prize, prize: £500

Deadline: 1 October 2011

The Essay Prize has been established to

. Stimulate new research on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry
. Promote young researchers in the field

The Leo Baeck Essay Prize is open to researchers who have completed their postgraduate studies no more than 5 years earlier. The essay can be on any topic on the history and culture of German-speaking Central European Jewry from early modern times through to the post-war period and present.

The prize

The winner will receive:

. Publication of the winning essay in the 2012 volume of the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
. A cash prize of £500
. A free year's print and online subscription to the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book

Entries should be submitted through our online submission system. Please go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lbiyb to access the system and submit your paper before the closing date of 1st October 2011.

Entry Requirements

The entry requirements and rules are as follows:

. The Leo Baeck Essay Prize is open to researchers who have completed their postgraduate studies no more than 5 years earlier.
. Essays must be in English and are to be no longer than 6,000 - 9,000 words, inclusive of all footnotes and references and should conform to LBI Year Book house style.
. The submission must be accompanied by an abstract summarising the principal arguments and making clear the relevance of the article to the competition topic.
. Permission must be obtained for the reproduction of illustrations and quotations from copyrighted material.
. The closing date for entries will be 1 October 2011. A panel of judges will read all entries, which will be assessed anonymously. All entries will be subject to the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book standards of refereeing and editorial review.
. Essays submitted for the Leo Baeck Essay Prize must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
. The winner of the Leo Baeck Essay Prize will be required to verify his or her status as a recent postgraduate student.
. It is a condition of entry that all entrants will be prepared to grant an exclusive license to the Year Book, which is operated on the journal's behalf by the publisher if accepted for publication.
. The decision of the judges will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into by the editors.
. There is no runner-up prize, but the editors may publish any entries that are highly commended by the judges.
. In the unlikely event that, in the judges' opinion, none of the essays submitted are of the required standard for the award of the prize, it will be offered for new entries the following year.

Contact Information:

For submissions: submit online here

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