Spring Seminar Calendar

Seminars are held at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011, on Wednesdays 10–11am unless otherwise noted, in a hybrid format or via ZOOM only. RSVP is required. Please email fellowships@cjh.org to register. Seminars are open to the academic public and other invited guests.

What Do We Tell the Children? Political Ideology and Children\'s Culture After the Holocaust

March 5, 2025

Fellow: Miriam Udel (Emory University)
Respondent: Avinoam Patt (NYU)

“Are You Jewish?”: Antisemitic Attacks on the Streets and in Congress

March 12, 2025

Fellow: Andrew Sperling (American University)
Respondent: Pamela S. Nadell (American University)

“How Does One Fight Such Things? The Story of the Making of Gentleman's Agreement and the Woman Behind the Novel

March 19, 2025

Fellow: Rachel Gordan (University of Florida)
Respondent: Maggie Doherty (Harvard University)

Electric Yiddishkeit: Light, Technology, and Interwar Modern Orthodoxy in New York

March 26, 2025

Fellow: Alona Bach (MIT)
Respondent: Annie Polland (Tenement Museum)

Traveling Memories: Entangled (Hi)stories of the Jewish Diaspora in the Caribbean

April 2, 2025 (ZOOM only)

Fellow:Sarah Nimführ (University of Arts Linz)

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Jewish Repatriation, Family Reunification, and Emigration from the USSR 1945-1995

April 9, 2025

Fellow: Alexandra Zborovsky (University of Pennsylvania)
Respondent: Elissa Bemporad (CUNY)

Worthy Citizens: Jewish Politics in the Age of American State Transformation, 1850-1933

April 23, 2025

Fellow: Jacob Morrow-Spitzer (Yale University)
Respondent: Lila Corwin Berman (NYU)

“Faithful German Servants“ or “Good Polish Citizens?” Violence, the Village Head, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland

April 30, 2025 (ZOOM only)

Fellow: Miranda Brethour (CUNY)
Respondent: Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)

Twists of Fate: Jewish Survival in the Ukrainian Countryside

May 7, 2025

Fellow: Alexander Maro (NYU)
Respondent: Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida)