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2011-2012 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2012-2013 faculty and graduate student fellowships:
Award Name |
Recipient |
Affiliation/Working Title |
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| Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship | Dr. Natalia Aleksiun |
Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College YIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Historians
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| Prof. Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship | Polly Zavadivker |
PhD candidate, Dept. of History, University of California at Santa Cruz Soviet History, Jewish Fate: The War Writings of S. An-sky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman, 1914-1948
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| Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship | Jennifer Young |
PhD candidate, Dept. of History and Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University American Jewish Communists, Anti-Fascism, and the Shaping of Ethnic Culture in the International Workers Order, 1930-1956
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| Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship | Joshua Walden |
Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University Music and Diaspora Identity on the Yiddish Stage
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| Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship | Rachel Rothstein |
PhD candidate, European History, University of Florida The Next Chapter: Polish Jewishness since 1968
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| Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship | Ruth von Bernuth |
Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina How the Khakhomim Got to Khelm: Yiddish Versions of the German Schildbürgerbuch and Their Role in the Formation of the Jewish Chelm canon
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Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship
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| Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship | Amanda Seigel |
Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater
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| Abraham and Rachela Melezin Fellowship | Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota |
Editor, Midrasz The Ark of Memory
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| Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship | Dr. Scott Ury |
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University Jewish Society and Culture in East European Cities, 1860-1914
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| Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Rebecca Kobrin |
Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University The Other Jewish Bankers: East European Jewish Immigrants, Speculative Banking and the Transformation of Jewish Economic Life in the United States and Poland, 1870-1939
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| Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship | Debra Caplan |
PhD candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Staging Jewish Modernism: The Vilna Troupe and the Interwar Yiddish Art Theater Movement
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| Dora and Mayer Tendler Fellowship | Dr. Cristina Michal Bettin |
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University New York-Jerusalem—A Minority Within a Minority
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| Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship | Rachel Deblinger |
PhD candidate, Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles Constructions of Survival: Framing Holocaust Narratives in Postwar America |