Awarded to a CU Boulder undergraduate or graduate student by faculty nomination

The Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures annually award the Ulrich Goldsmith Memorial Prize, which rewards academic writing on Jewish culture in German-speaking lands. The $300 prize is awarded to the best paper written by a student (undergraduate or graduate) on a topic pertaining to any aspect of German-Jewish culture in the pre- or post-World War II period.

Faculty from the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program in Jewish Studies will nominate students for the prize for papers written the previous calendar year. A student awardee will be announced early April.

About Professor Ulrich "Ulo" Goldsmith

The prize is named after Professor Ulrich "Ulo" Goldsmith (1910–2000), professor emeritus of German and Comparative Literature. Professor Goldsmith was born in Freiburg i. B., Germany, and moved to England in 1932 to study at the London School of Economics. He remained an exile in England after 1933 because of the anti-Semitic legislation passed by the Third Reich. In 1940 he moved to Canada, classified as a "friendly enemy alien," earning his master’s in German literature from Toronto University. In 1950 he earned his Ph.D. in German from UC-Berkeley. Goldsmith began working at CU Boulder in 1957, where he first chaired the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and later co-founded and chaired the Program in Comparative Literature. He retired from CU in 1979. The prize was established in the 2010–2011 academic year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Professor Goldsmith's birth.