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The British “Polonsky” Prize in Jewish Studies was awarded to Lasha Shakulashvili from Georgia. Lasha has been nominated by the professors of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, BA program in Jewish Studies and the School of Rare Jewish Languages at the University of Oxford.
In 2023 Lasha translated the Ukrainian-born American Jewish writer Jacob Gordin’s play from Yiddish to Georgian, which was used to reopen Tbilisi’s Yiddish Theater on March 16, 2023. Currently, Lasha is a lecturer of Yiddish language and culture at the Tbilisi State University and is creating the Georgian-language educational materials in Jewish Studies as a visiting researcher at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
Lasha has been educated at the Tel Aviv University, the Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden and the School of Rare Jewish Languages, the University of Oxford. Besides his native Georgian, Lasha speaks English, Russian, Yiddish, Latvian and Hebrew languages.