2018-2019 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2018-2019 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Monika Polit, Associate Professor, Warsaw University, Poland
Yiddish Language Reportage: Critical Analysis and Reconstruction of Twentieth Century Reality as Reflected in Reporters' Accounts

Fellowship in American Jewish History

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

Ayelet Brinn, Doctoral Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Miss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter with the United States

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)

Simon Goldberg, Doctoral Candidate, Clark University
Creating Knowledge: Jewish Record-Keepers in Kaunas, 1915-1945

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

No fellowship awarded.

Fellowship in Eastern European and Diasporic Jewish Literature

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

Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, San Diego
Kosher and Radical: Surrogating and Negotiating Jewishness in America.

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

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

Anastasiia Strakhova, Doctoral Candidate, Emory University
Imagining Emigration: Crossing the Borders of Russian Jewry during the Era of Mass Migration, 1881-1917

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Martin Wiesche, Doctoral Candidate, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany
A Biography of Dr. Michał Weichert

Ofer Dynes, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University
Castles Made of Sand: the Feudal Landscape of Modern Jewish Culture