Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel
Gary S. Schiff’s first book, “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a “great humanities book,” deserving of being preserved forever by being digitized and reissued in print.
Schiff, adjunct professor of history, wrote “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” based on his 1973 doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, after having spent 18 months researching the country, which was funded by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.