2019-2020 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2019-2020 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Sari Siegel, Yale University
Healing after the Holocaust: Jewish DP-Physicians and the Provision of Medical Care to Fellow Survivors, 1945-1950

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Binyamin Hunyadi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yiddish Anarchist Press and Literature 1890−1918.

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)

Natali Beige, Tel Aviv University
As the Sky Darkened: The Jews in the Šiauliai Region during World War II and the Holocaust 1941-1944

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Jeremiah Lockwood, Stanford University
A Melody is Like a Confession: Cantorial music and the dialectics of Jewish sound

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Roni Masel, New York University
Diasporic Horrors, Diasporic Dreams: Narrating Jewish Pasts in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Historical Fiction

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Vladimir Levin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Place and Function of the Synagogue in the East European Jewish Society from the Late Seventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Anna Szyba, Free University Berlin
The Secular Yiddish School in the Context of the “New Education.” 1916-1939.

Kalman Weiser, York University
Confronting Hitler’s Professors: Max Weinreich, Solomon Birnbaum and the Legacy of the Holocaust