2021-2022 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2021-2022 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Andrey Shlyakhter, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
Smuggling Across the Soviet Borders: Contraband Trades, Soviet Solutions, and the Shadow Economic Origins of the Iron Curtain, 1917-1932

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Samuel Glauber-Zimra, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“She Saw from New York How Her Husband Perished in Hitler's Concentration Camp”: American Jews Dream of the Holocaust, 1941-1945

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)

Tzipora Weinberg, New York University
Women’s Religious Lives in Ghettos of Lithuania during World War II

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Paula Ansaldo, University of Buenos Aires
Yiddish theatre in South America: the guest star system and the transnational network of Yiddish actors, 1930-1960

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Elias Pitegoff
Interrogating Illegibilities; Thinking Aesthetic Politics Beyond Kantian Cosmopolitanism with the Inzikhisten and Di Khalyastre

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Ekaterina Oleshkevich, Bar-Ilan University
History, Culture and Experience of Jewish Childhood in Late Imperial Russia

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Rachelle Grossman, Harvard University
“Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish Publishing in Buenos Aires and Warsaw (1945-84)”

Elly Moseson, Boston University
Magic and Folk-Medicine in Eastern Europe Jewish Culture