Of $37.5 Million in new NEH grants, 2.7% relate to Israel, Judaism

(August 27, 2024)

Jewish News Syndicate

The National Endowment for the Humanities, a U.S. federal agency, announced $37.5 million in grants for 240 humanities projects on Tuesday. Eight of the projects, which received $1,186,847 in funding, relate to Judaism and Israel.

The largest amount—$298,782—is to go to a translation of two 16th-century accounts of the New World by Sephardic Jews, Joseph Ha-Kohen and Luis de Carvajal. (The NEH spelled it “Joseph Ha-Kohem.”) The Washington University in St. Louis project is titled “Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writings on the New World.”