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    Dan David Prize relaunches, now the world’s largest history award

    Starting in 2022, the Dan David Prize will award $3 million annually to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners who study humanity's past

    Jerusalem Post Staff

    5th September 2021

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    Dan David Prize relaunches, now the world’s largest history award

    Starting in 2022, the Dan David Prize will award $3 million annually to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners who study humanity's past

    Jerusalem Post Staff

    5th September 2021

    Beginning in May 2022, The Dan David Prize is relaunching as an award that supports history and the study of the past, the Board of the Prize announced Wednesday.The relaunched prize, now the largest history prize in the world, will award up to nine $300,000 rewards annually to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners around the world to recognize outstanding achievements in the study of humanity’s past and to support the winners’ future endeavors. 

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    Shany Littman, Haaretz

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