2022-2023 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2022-2023 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Aleksandra Jakubczak, Columbia University
The “New Jewish Woman:” Economic, Social and Cultural History of Gender Transformation in Eastern Europe

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Michael Casper, Yale University
A Bundist on the NYCHA Board: Baruch Vladeck and the Movement for Public Housing

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)

Justina Smalkyte, The Paris Institute of Political Studies
Places, Objects, and Bodies: A Material History of Anti-Nazi Resistance in German-occupied Lithuania (1941-1944)

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Uri Schreter, Harvard University
“A New Thing for Israel”: Yiddish Music and the Transnational Politics of Postwar Jewish Culture

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Roy Ginsberg, Harvard University
Aesthetic and Ideological Trends among Members of the Russian and Yiddish Avant-garde Movements from WWI until Stalinism (1914-27)

Elaine Wilson, Columbia University
The Soviet Exodic: Resistance and Revolution in Soviet Russian and Yiddish Literature, 1917 - 1935

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Andrii Bolianovskyi, Ivan Kryiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv
Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the context of Antisemitism in Eastern Europe in the inter-war period (November 1918 – August 1939)

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Allison Curry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ritual, Tradition, and Change in the Jewish Cemeteries of Poland, 1918-1945

Yuri Radchenko, Institute of Oriental Studies and International Relations “Kharkiv Collegium”
Jewish-Karaite-Muslim Relation in Ukraine during Nazi Occupation (1941-1944)