2013-2014 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Mar 1, 2013

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2013-2014 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Award Name

Recipient

Affiliation/Working Title

The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship Dr. Karolina Szymaniak

Assistant Professor, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw

Colonies of Yiddishland? (Ex)territorial Discourses in Yiddish Literary Criticism and the Politics of Modern Yiddish Culture

 

Fellowship in American Jewish History

(The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies)

 

Marcus Krah

Doctoral Candidate, Jewish Theological Seminary

Turning a Lost World Into a Usable Past - How American Jews at Mid-20th Century Re-Invented Their East European History

Fellowship in Baltic Jewish History

(The Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies, the Abraham and Rachela Melezin Memorial Fellowship and the Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship)

 

Isabelle Rozenbaumas

Independent Scholar

Yavne Telz School Was Life

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

(The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship and the Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship)

 

Jason Lustig

Doctoral Candidate, UCLA

Making History: The Proliferation and Impact of Modern Archives for Jewish History

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature and Arts

(Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship, Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship & The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

 

Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka

Doctoral Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

The Transformation of the Jewish Musical Tradition in Galicia in the Interwar Period

 

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

(The Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship and the Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship)

 

Sarah Zarrow

Doctoral Candidate, NYU

The Social Role of Ethnography for Jews in Interwar Poland

The Workers Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies Prof. Eugene Avrutin

Associate Professor, University of Illinois

The Velizh Affair: Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town

 

*Honorary - American Jewish Studies Liati May-Hai

Doctoral Candidate, Jewish Theological Seminary

The Life and Poetry of Berish Weinstein

 

*Honorary - Eastern European Jewish Studies Mihály Kálmán

Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University

Shtetl Heroes: Jewish Self-Defense from the Pale to Palestine, 1871-1936

 

*Honorary - Eastern European Jewish Studies Adi Mahalel

Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University

The Birth of a Jewish Radical: I.L. Peretz in the 1890s