2026-2027 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2026-2027 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

(Funds provided by the Family of Mendel and Natalie Racolin and The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship)

Dahlia Wolfson, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
“Writing as Work: Gender, Labor, and the I. L. Peretz Writers Union”

Fellowship in Baltic Jewish Studies

(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)

Leah Perl Shollar, Independent Scholar
Becoming Ḥasidic: The Baltic Origins of Ḥabad Women’s Education

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Gila Flam, Hebrew University
Redefining Yiddish Song in the Post-Traditional Present

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Gilad Cohen, Brandeis University
Reuben Brainin and The Jewish Political Roots of Zionism

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Vladyslava Moskolets, Ukrainian Catholic University
A Jewish Voice in Ukrainian: A Carpathian Writer and Jewish–Ukrainian Dialogue

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Joanna Bakon, University of Warsaw
Wartime Experiences and Survival Strategies of Mixed Families in Occupied Poland (1939–1945)

Fellowship in Yiddish Studies

(The Knaster-Jacobs Fellowship in Yiddish Studies)

Chaye Nove, Fordham University
The Yiddish Press and the Formation of an American Hasidic Identity

Marc Caplan, Dartmouth University
Dialects of Enlightenment: Jewish Drama and the Performance of Modernity

Yaakov Lipsker, Jewish Theological Seminary
Between Palestine and the Pale: A History of the Zionist Movement in Late Imperial Russia, 1897-1914