Professor Eugene Weiner Grant

After the untimely death of Professor Wiener his colleagues in cooperation with Sefer Center issued a collected volume dedicated to his memory, made up of his own works, recollections about him and articles of researchers from Israel, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus.
His widow Dr. Anita Wiener established a Grant named after her late husband, called to continue his endeavors, to promote research, scientific and teaching activities in the field of Jewish Studies in the CIS and the Baltic states.
This grant is awarded each year at “Sefer” international conferences, the recent years recipients were:
2005 - Alexander Vladimirov (Moscow), Tatiana Percent (Kiev).
2006 - Alexander Lokshin (Moscow), Ilya Barkussky (Moscow).
2007 - Rashid Kaplanov (Moscow), Catherine Cybulski (Kiev).
2008 - Michael Vogman (Moscow), Olesya Shaidukov (St. Petersburg).
2009 - Alexander Besarov (Chernivtsi), Tamara Zhuk (Kiev), Yuri Korogodsky (Kiev), Vladimir Lyubchenko (Kiev), Olga Minkina (St. Petersburg), Igor Muratov (Minsk), Igor Turov (Kiev), Ilya Yablokov (Tomsk ).
2010 - Lilia Kalmina (Ulan-Ude), Svetlana Koloda (Gorlovka) Alexandra Polyan (Moscow).
2011 - Elena Nosenko-Stein (Moscow), Maxim Gammal (Moscow).
2012 - Konstantin Bondar (Kharkiv), Jurgita Verbitskene (Vilnius), Galina Sinilo (Minsk), Polina Skorodumova (Moscow), Inna Sorkina (Grodno).
2013 - Yulia Kondrakova (Moscow), Yakov Eidelkind (Moscow).
2014 - Natalia Kireeva (Moscow), Alina Lisitsyna (Moscow).
2015 - Efim Melamed (Kiev), Victor Kelner (Saint-Petersburg), Alexander Ivanov (Saint-Petersburg).
2016 - Galina Zelenina (Moscow), Valentina Fedchenko (Saint-Petersburg), Alexey Lyavdansky (Moscow).
2017 - Sergey Tishchenko (Moscow), Hektoras Vitkus (Klaidepa).
2018 - Maria Kaspina (Moscow), Ilya Lensky (Riga), Andrew Shpirt (Moscow).
2019- Victoria Gerasimova (Omsk), Ekaterina Norkina (St. Petersburg) , Svetlana Pogodina (Riga)
Photos of Eugene Wiener Grant awardings and the laureates are in an open access at our Photo Gallery.
Sefer Center expresses the gratitude to Anita Wiener for this valuable support for research and university teaching in the field of Jewish Studies.
Eugene Weiner Grant Laureates 2019
Victoria Gerasimova (Omsk) Ekaterina Norkina (St. Petersburg) Svetlana Pogodina (Riga)



Eugene Weiner Grant Laureates 2018
Maria Kaspina
(Moscow) | Ilya Lensky
(Riga) |
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Andrew Shpirt
(Moscow)

Eugene Wiener Grant Laureates 2017 | |
Sergey Tishchenko
(Moscow) | Hektoras Vitkus
(Klaipeda) |
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Eugene Wiener Grant Laureates 2016
Galina Zelenina (Moscow) | Alexey Lyavdansky (Moscow) | Valentina Fedchenko (Saint-Petersburg) |
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Eugene Wiener Grant Laureates 2015
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Efim Melamed (Kiev), Victor Kelner (Saint-Petersburg), Alexander Ivanov (Saint-Petersburg) |
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Eugene Weiner Grant Laureates 2014
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Natalia Kireeva
(Moscow) | Alina Lisitsyna
(Moscow) |
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Eugene Weiner Grant Laureates 2013
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Yulia Kondrakova (Moscow) | Yakov Eidelkind (Moscow) |
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Eugene Weiner Grant Laureates 2012
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Konstantin Bondar (Kharkiv) | Jurgita Verbitskene (Vilnius) | Galina Sinilo
(Minsk) | Polina Skorodumova (Moscow) | Inna Sorkina
(Grodno) | ||
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