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Past Forward
The Dan David Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.
Meet the 2024 Dan David Prize winners
the founder
Dan David lived through Nazi and Communist persecution in his native Romania before becoming a global business leader and philanthropist. He was passionate about history, archaeology and the study of the past and believed profoundly in the power of knowledge, scholarship and the exchange of ideas to benefit our world.
About Us
The Dan David Prize is the largest history prize in the world with an annual purse of 3million.Weawarduptonineprizesof3 million. We award up to nine prizes of 3million.Weawarduptonineprizesof300,000 each year to outstanding early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines. The remaining $300,000 funds a program for international and Israeli postdoctoral fellows at Tel Aviv University, where the Prize is headquartered. The Dan David Prize is the flagship project of the Dan David Foundation, an independent charitable organization based in Liechtenstein, which supports research, higher education and breakthrough achievements in the humanities and sciences.
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