Announcing the 2022 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize

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Editorial| February 01 2023 Announcing the 2022 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize Mary Ann Irwin Mary Ann Irwin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Ann Irwin; Announcing the 2022 Richard J. Orsi “Best Article” Prize. California History 1 February 2023; 100 (1): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.1.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search It is with great pleasure that I announce the winner of our Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in California History in 2022. It was difficult to choose the best of the eleven peer-reviewed research articles we published in volume 99. Nonetheless, the committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood, “S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco,” Vol. 99, No. 2, May (Summer) 2022, with each member agreeing that a very close second was Catherine Christensen Gwin, “The Selling of American Girls: Mexico’s White Slave Trade in the California Imaginary,” Vol. 99, No. 1, February (Spring) 2022.The committee’s report on the winning article notes:In this well-researched and fascinating case study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century San Francisco’s small but vibrant Jewish community, Warren C. Wood shows how the 1928 staging of playwright S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk helped heal... You do not currently have access to this content.