2024-2025 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2024-2025 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Will Pimlott, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Advanced Eastern European Jewish Studies, University of London
The YIVO’s Foreign Sections: Building Transnational Immigrant History in and after the Holocaust, 1930-1980

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Deena Ecker, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Painted Vicious Huzzies: Popular Culture and Prostitution in Early 20th Century New York City

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)

Dr. Jurgita Verbickienė, Professor, Vilnius University
Relations between Christians and Jews in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Daniel Carkner, Independent Scholar
Immigrant Klezmer Musicians during the Golden Age of Commercial Recording

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Jacqueline Krass, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison
A Yiddish Counterhistory of Jewish American Poetry

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Dr. Dana Mihailescu, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest
Emigration “on Foot” to North America as Cultural Resistance: Romania’s Jewish Fusgeyers from 1900 in History and Memory

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Elana Hoffenberg, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
Capitalist Crisis and Jewish Futures in Interwar Poland

Dr. Monika Polit, Associate Professor, University of Warsaw
Systemic Yiddish Teaching in the Łódź Ghetto: Successes and Failures