2016-2017 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Mar 17, 2016

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2016-2017 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship

Yaad Biran, Doctoral Candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yiddish Travel Writing to Palestine, 1907-1947

Fellowship in American Jewish History

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

Ellen Kellman, Assistant Professor of Yiddish, Brandeis University
Abraham Cahan, Louis Miller, and the Yiddish “Yellow Press”

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)

Michael Casper, Doctoral Candidate, UCLA
The Creation of a National Jewish Culture in Interwar Lithuania, 1918-1940

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

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

Zvi Gitelman, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
The Jewish Experience in the USSR during World War II

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature

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

David Stromberg, Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Becoming a Writer: Isaac Bashevis Singer in New York

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Katie Power, Doctoral Candidate, University of Southampton
From Shund to Kunst: The Evolution of London’s Yiddish Theatres, 1906-1950

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Wojciech Tworek, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław
Galut Polin: Habad-Lubavitch in Poland in the Interwar Period

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

Jan Schwarz, Associate Professor, Center of Languages and Literatures, Lund University
I. B. Singer – Jewish Storyteller and Iconoclast