2017-2018 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2017-2018 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Monika Biesaga, Doctoral Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Jewish Public Libraries in Interwar Poland – History and Organization

Fellowship in American Jewish History

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

Yael Levi, Doctoral Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Beginnings of the Hebrew Letter Press in the United States in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Social, Linguistic and Material Aspects

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)

Malena Chinski, Doctoral Candidate, General Sarmiento National University and Institute for Economic and Social Development (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cultural Networking in the Aftermath of Destruction: Itineraries and Correspondence of Szmerke Kaczerginski, 1944-1954

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Dr. Diana Matut, Lecturer, University Halle-Wittenberg
Research project on Henekh Kon, prolific Yiddish theatre, opera, film and song composer

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature

(The Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship and the Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship)

Anastasiya Lyubas, Doctoral Candidate, SUNY Binghamton
Language and Plasticity in Debora Vogel’s Poetics

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

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

Prof. David Assaf, The Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University
Not Just Words and Tunes: On the History and Transformation of Hebrew and Yiddish Songs

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Urszula (Ula) Madej-Krupitski, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Mapping Jewish Poland: Leisure and Identity Negotiations during Interwar Poland

Natalia Aleksiun, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College, and
Elissa Bemporad, Associate Professor of History, Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust, Queens College
Edited monograph: Gender and Jewish Women in Central and Eastern Europe