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Giancarlo Maiorino, comparative literature, and Dov-Ber
Kerler, Germanic studies and Jewish studies, have won prestigious
awards from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA),
which met in late December in Philadelphia, Pa.
Maiorino won the 35th annual James Russell Lowell Prize
for his book, At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo
de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival , published
by Penn State University Press. The prize honors a literary
or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work
or a critical biography. Kerler received the second Fenia
and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize for an outstanding scholarly
work in English in the field of Yiddish. The Origins of
Modern Literary Yiddish was published by Oxford University
Press.
The two awards were among 16 presented at the annual MLA
meeting Dec. 28.
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