2014-2015 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Mar 1, 2014

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2014-2015 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Award Name	Recipient	Affiliation/Working Title
The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship	Zohar Weiman-Kelman	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Libe and Linguistics: Towards an Archive of Yiddish Sexuality
Fellowship in American Jewish History (The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies)	Alec Burko	PhD Candidate, The Jewish Theological Seminary Saving Yiddish: Yiddish Studies and the Language Sciences in America, 1940-1970
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)	Akvilė Grigoravičiūtė	PhD student, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV Peripheral Visions: the Development of Yiddish Culture in Lithuania and Latvia, 1918-1940
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies (The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship and the Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship)	Miriam Trinh	Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University Two Vilners, One Generation, Two Paths: Chaim Grade, Avrom Sutzkever and their Literary Answer to the Khurbn
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature (The Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship and the Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship)	Saul Zaritt	PhD Candidate, The Jewish Theological Seminary Mimeyle a velt-shrayber: Yiddish Literature and World Literature
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts (The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)	Eléonore Biezunski	Doctoral student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Mapping Contemporary Yiddish Songs: Places of New Yiddish songs as Experienced, Produced and Represented
Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies (The Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship and the Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship)	Anna Rozenfeld	Educator, Museum of the History of Polish Jews Broadcasts in Yiddish in Polish Radio after World War II
The Workers Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies	Cecile Kuznitz	Associate Professor & Director of Jewish Studies, Bard College Towards a Yiddish Architecture

Award Name

Recipient

Affiliation/Working Title

The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship

Zohar Weiman-Kelman

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Libe and Linguistics: Towards an Archive of Yiddish Sexuality

Fellowship in American Jewish History

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

Alec Burko

PhD Candidate, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Saving Yiddish: Yiddish Studies and the Language Sciences in America, 1940-1970

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)

Akvilė Grigoravičiūtė

PhD student, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV

Peripheral Visions: the Development of Yiddish Culture in Lithuania and Latvia, 1918-1940

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

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

Miriam Trinh

Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Two Vilners, One Generation, Two Paths: Chaim Grade, Avrom Sutzkever and their Literary Answer to the Khurbn

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature

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

Saul Zaritt

PhD Candidate, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Mimeyle a velt-shrayber: Yiddish Literature and World Literature

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Eléonore Biezunski

Doctoral student, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Mapping Contemporary Yiddish Songs: Places of New Yiddish songs as Experienced, Produced and Represented

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Anna Rozenfeld

Educator, Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Broadcasts in Yiddish in Polish Radio after World War II

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

Cecile Kuznitz

Associate Professor & Director of Jewish Studies, Bard College

Towards a Yiddish Architecture