History Faculty Member Ron Schechter Wins Leo Gershoy Award
by The History Department
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January 13, 2005
Ron Schechter was presented with the Leo Gershoy Award at the American
Historical Association's 2005 General Meeting. This award recognizes
the most outstanding work in English in the field of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century western European history. The award is for Ron's
book, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), and this is the
second major award for the book. Last year, it received the David
Pinkney Prize, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies,
for the best book in French history by a North American scholar.
