Past Fellows: 2002-2024

The Center for Jewish History is extremely proud of the last two decades of Fellows. Learn about their experiences, and their research.

Ludwig Decke, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CJH-Fordham University Fellow
Antiracism after Hitler: Jews, the State, and the Fight against Racial Discrimination in Western Europe, 1945-1992

Ishai Mishory, Columbia University

Lapidus Graduate Fellow
The Opposite of a Paper Ghetto: A Biography of Five Books Printed by Gershom Soncino, 1490-1534

Julia Schulte-Werning, University of Vienna

Bookhalter Graduate Fellow
Jewish Medical Humanitarianism in North Africa from the 1940s to the 1960s

Helmut Smith, Vanderbilt University

NEH Scholar in Residence
Our Towns: Jews and Germans and Post-Holocaust Memory in the Federal Republic

Lelia Stadler, Columbia University

Lapidus Graduate Fellow
The Road to Trans-South American Divorce: Jews, Family, and the Rise of the Immigrant Nation (1853-1955)

Janet Ward, University of Oklahoma

Visiting Scholar
The New Public History of Eugenics

Cassandra Euphrat Weston, University of Michigan

Lapidus Graduate Fellow
Sexual Dissidence, Jewishness, and American Radicalism, 1900-1930

Hadas Binyamini, New York University

Bookhalter Graduate Fellow
The 1970s’ New Jewish Politics: Grassroots Orthodox Activism in the U.S.

Yitzhak Conforti, Bar Ilan University

Visiting Scholar
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: A Cultural History of Jewish Nationalism

Ethell Gershengorin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Rifkind Graduate Fellow
Healing After Violence: Jewish Pogrom Aid and Its Role in Bolshevik State Building, 1917-1924

Susanne Heim, University of Freiburg

Short-Term Research Fellow
Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany and International Migration Management

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Vivian J. Prins Artistic Residency
Mechitza: Individual and Collective Resistance of Women During the Shoah

Aleksandra Jakubczak, Columbia University

Bookhalter Graduate Fellow
Protecting the Jewish Daughters:” The Economics of Sex Work and Mobility between the 1870s and 1939

Alexandra Kramen, Clark University

Bookhalter Graduate Fellow
Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Persons Camp Föhrenwald, 1945-1957

Julia Ng, Goldsmiths, University of London

CJH-Fordham University Fellow
Daoism and Capitalism: Modern German-Jewish Philosophy's Encounter with China

Esther Schor, Princeton University

NEH Scholar-in-Residence
The Pluralist: A Life of Horace M. Kallen

Tzipora Weinberg, New York University

Bookhalter Graduate Fellow
Still Small Voices: Religious Thought and Practice among ‘Lithuanian’ Jewish Women Between the World Wars

Amy Weiss, University of Hartford

CJH-Fordham University Fellow
Realigning Faith: American Jews, Protestants, and Israel, 1945 – 2020

Shai Zamir, University of Michigan

Lapidus Graduate Fellow
The Cultural History of Friendship in the Early Modern Iberian World

Anne Blankenship, Associate Professor, North Dakota State University

CJH-Fordham University Fellow
Race, Religion, and Immigration: How Jews, Catholics, and Protestants Faced Mass Immigration, 1882-1924

Oskar Czendze, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduate Fellow
From Loss to Invention: Galician Jews Between New York and East Central Europe, 1890-1938

Susanne Heim, Independent Scholar, Executive Editor of The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933-45, edited on behalf of the German Federal Archives, the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, and the Chair for Modern History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (postponed to 2022-23)

Short-term Research Fellow
Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany and International Migrations Management

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland

Vivian J. Prins Artistic Residency
Mechitza - Herstory

Aleksandra Jakubczak, Columbia University

Graduate Fellow
“Protecting the Jewish Daughters;” Sex Work, Mobility, and Gender Geographies of Power between the 1870s and 1930s

Alexandra Kramen, Clark University

Graduate Fellow
Justice Pursued: Jewish Survivors’ Struggle for Holocaust Justice in Displaced Person Camp Fohrenwald, 1945-1957

Angelina Palmen, Oxford University

Graduate Fellow
Producing New Women: Work and Consumer Culture in the Wilhelmine Jewish Garment Trade

Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

NEH Scholar-in-Residence
Jewish Museums Lost and Found

Karen Stern, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Sid Lapidus Curatorial Fellow
Jewish Graffiti: Hidden Histories

Carla Vieira, Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Short-term Research Fellow
Portuguese Jews and Iberian-North American Trade Relations in Colonial Times: The Case of Aaron Lopez (1731-1782)

David Walsh, Princeton University

Short-term Research Fellow
No Enemies to the Right: The Far Right, the Conservative Movement, and the Right-Wing Popular Front

Samantha Cooper, New York University

Graduate Fellow
Cultivating High Society: American Jews Engaging European Opera in New York, 1880-1940

Magda Teter, Fordham University

NEH Scholar-in-Residence
The Dissemination and Uses of the Jewish Past: The Role of the Present in the Production and Politics of History

Ari Cohen, University of Virginia

Graduate Fellow
Displaying Art and Exhibiting Philanthropy: Jews, Genders, and Museums in the United States, 1888 -1958

Jessica Cooperman, Muhlenberg College

CJH-Fordham University Fellow in Jewish-Christian Relations
Jewish and Christian Passover Seders as Sites of Interfaith Engagement

Binyamin Hunyadi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Graduate Fellow
Yiddish Anarchist Press and Literature 1890-1918

Tamar Menashe, Columbia University

Graduate Fellow
Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany ,1500-1700

Brian Ogren, Rice University

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
Kabbalah and the Founding of America: Christian Uses of Jewish Thought in the Nascent Republic

Miriam Schulz, Columbia University

Graduate Fellow
Keyner iz nit fargesn: Soviet Yiddish culture and the Holocaust in the Jewish Cold War, 1941– 1991

Netta Cohen, University of Oxford

Graduate Fellow
When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine, 1900-1967

Brett Levi, New York University

Graduate Fellow
Expanding the Borders of Holiness: The History of the Postwar Haredi Landscape

Geoffrey Levin, New York University

Graduate Fellow
Another Nation: Israel, American Jews, and Palestinian Rights, 1949-1977

Anita Norich, University of Michigan

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
Women Who Wrote Yiddish Prose Fiction in the Middle of the 20th Century

Joël Sebban, Sorbonne University

Graduate Fellow
The Invention of the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition:’ the Nation-State, the Synagogue and the Christian Churches in France, from Napoleon to the Vichy Regime, 1806-1940

Anastasiia Strakhova, Emory University

Graduate Fellow
Imagining Emigration: Crossing the Borders of Russian Jewry during the Era of Mass Migration, 1881-1917

Florence Largillière, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Conservative Patriotic Jews and the Nation: A Comparative Study of France, Germany, and Italy from 1918 to 1940

Shaul Magid, Indiana University

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
American Jewish Survivalism: Meir Kahane and the Politics of Pride

Michael Rom, Yale University

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
Between Democracy and Dictatorship: Jewish Politics and National Identity in Brazil, 1945-1985

Roberta Rosenberg, Christopher Newport University

Visiting Scholar
Teaching American Jewish Literature

Joel Sebban, Sorbonne University

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Between 'Judeo-Christians' and 'Sons of Abraham': Jews, Christians, and Muslims in France and its North African Colonies from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day

Dana Smith, Queen Mary, University of London

American Academy for Jewish Research Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Studies
The History of the American Academy for Jewish Research

Frances Tanzer, Brown University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Visions of Vienna: Jewish Presence and Absence in the Aftermath of Genocide

Nina Valbousquet, Sciences Po Paris

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
The Fight against Antisemitism and Its Impact on Jewish-Catholic Relations (1914-1945)

Laura Almagor, European University Institute

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Forgotten Alternatives: Jewish Territorialism as a Movement of Political Action and Ideology (1905-1960)

Shimshon Ayzenberg, Stanford University

Taube/Koret Early Career Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Economic Turn in Jewish Wissenschaft in Revolutionary Russia

Ayelet Brinn, University of Pennsylvania

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
The American Yiddish Press and the Reconstruction of Jewish Gender, 1897-1935

Sonia Gollance, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Harmonious Instability: (Mixed) Dancing and Partner Choice in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature

Monika Hankova, Jewish Museum Prague

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence
German Jewish Women in the Czech Lands after the End of World War II: Emigration in Gendered Perspective

Jordan R. Katz, Columbia University

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Wise Women': Gender, Religion, Medicine and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Chaim Elly Moseson, Boston University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
From Spoken Word to the Discourse of the Academy: Reading the Sources for the Teachings of the Besht

Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
The Navel of the Dream: Freud's Jewish Languages

Nina Valbousquet, Sciences Po Paris

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
The Fight against Antisemitism and Its Impact on Jewish-Catholic Relations (1914-1945)

Esther Wratschko, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence
Ein kleines Café in New York: The 'Wienerlied' in New York Exile

Elissa Bemporad, Queens College, CUNY

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

Rachel Blumenthal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
The Claims Conference, the State of Israel, and the Diaspora: 1952-1964

Michael Casper, UCLA

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Of Dubnov and Doikayt: Folkism and the Discourse of Jewish Belonging in Interwar Lithuania

Tim Corbett, Lancaster University

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Once the 'Only True Austrians': Jewish-Austrian Memory and Identity after the World War

Debra Gail Glasberg, Columbia University

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Scientific Authority and Jewish Law in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Geraldine Gudefin, Brandeis University

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Navigating the Civil and Religious Worlds: Jewish Immigrants & Marital Laws in France and the United States, 1881-1939

Elena Keidosiute, Vilnius University

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Catholic Missions and Jewish Conversions in Modern Period Lithuania: Transformations of the Phenomena

Shira Kohn, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Taube/Koret Early Career Scholars Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
From German Jews to Jewish Greeks: Student Refugees in American Universities, 1933-1945

Ilse Lazaroms, European University Institute

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Between Budapest and New York: A History of Hungarian Jews, 1890s to 1920s

Charles McDonald, The New School

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Return to Sepharad: Making Modern Spain Jewish

Graciela Mochkofsky, n/a

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence
The Rise of a New Judaism in Latin America

Anna Novikov, German Historical Institute, Warsaw

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
You Are What You Wear: Polish and Jewish Visual Nationalization through Fashion in the Partitioned Poland (1848-1918)

Rotem Rozental, Binghamton University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Photographic Archives, Nationalism and the Foundation of the Jewish State: 1903-1948

Aaron Welt, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Shtarkers of Progressive Era New York: Labor, Masculinity and Crime in the Age of Mass Migration, 1900-1920

Lillian M. Wohl, University of Chicago

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
A Tale of Two Cantors: Cantor David Lefkowitz and the Musical Masterpieces of David Nowakowsky

Alexandra Zirkle, University of Chicago

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Modeling the Temple: The Politics of German Jewish Biblical Hermeneutics

Irit Bloch, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Steinberg Emerging Jewish Filmmaker Fellowship
Anti-Semitism as a Factor in the Decision-Making Process of Weimar Judiciary: Towards a Solution to the Judiciary Political Bias Paradox

Andrew Marc Caplan, Johns Hopkins University

Cahnman Senior Scholar Fellowship
The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Modernism and the Dislocation of German Modernity in the Weimar Era

Yitzhak Conforti, Bar-Ilan University

Visiting Scholar
The Ethnic and Cultural Origins of Zionism: History, Memory and Utopia

Ofer Dynes, Harvard University

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Jewish Culture and the Logic of the State: 1772-1860

Cristina Florea, Princeton University

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
City of Dreams: Czernowitz at the Crossroads of Empires, 1875-1975

Jaclyn Granick, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Humanitarian Responses to Jewish Suffering Abroad by American Jewish Organizations, 1914-1929

Jennifer Kaplan, The New School

Undergraduate Fellowship

Zoltán Kékesi, Hungarian University of Fine Arts

Prins Senior Scholar Fellowship
Tiszaeszlár: The History of a Cult Image

Kamil Kijek, Polish Academy of Sciences

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
A Polish Shtetl after the Holocaust? The History of the Jewish Community and Polish-Jewish Relations in Dzierzoniow, 1945-1968

Julia Kissina, n/a

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence

Ilse Lazaroms, European University Institute

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
'Revolutions of Thought and Sensibility': Hungarian-speaking Jewry in the Years of Rupture, 1896-1923

Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Telling Dangers: Sakana as a Window into Early Modern Halakha

Britt Tevis, University of Wisconsin

Mirvis Family Fellowship
May It Displease the Court: Jewish Lawyers and the Democratization of American Law

Nina Valbousquet, Scieces Po Paris

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
The Circulation and Use of Anti-Semitism during the Interwar Period: The Case of Intransigent Catholic Networks (1917-1945)

Andreea Valean, n/a

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence

Marc Volovici, Princeton University

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
Religious and Secular Liturgies: The German Language in Modern Jewish History

Zohar Weiman-Kelman, University of Toronto

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
What to Expect When You're not Expecting: A Poetic History of Jewish Women Writers

Amy Weiss, NYU

Lapidus Summer Fellowship
'The Jewish Problem Is a Christian Problem': American Jewish, Liberal Protestant, and Evangelical Interfaith Zionist Relations

Ian Zdanowicz, University of Paris VIII

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Space as a Tool of Power and a Weapon of Survival: A Study of Spatial Tactics used by People of Jewish Descent during the Nazi Occupation (1939-1945) in Warsaw

Nino Biniashvili, n/a

Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence
An Archive of My Own

Alec Burko, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
Saving Yiddish: Yiddish Studies and the Language Sciences in America, 1940-1970

Jeffrey Culang, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Common Sensibilities: Religion and Secularism in Modern Egypt

Ofer Dynes, Harvard University

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Jewish Culture and the Logic of the State: 1772-1881

Glenn Dynner, Sarah Lawrence College

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
Traditionalist Jewish Women in Eastern Europe: Revising the Secularization Paradigm in Light of the Guttmacher Kvitlekh

Donna-Lee Frieze, Deakin University

Prins Senior Scholar Fellowship
The Whole Child's Life: An Analysis of Austrian Child Holocaust Survivor Audio Testimonies

Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto

Visiting Scholar
At Wit's End: Jewish Jokes, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Question from Weimar Germany to the Holocaust

Patrick Benjamin Koch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
After Safed: Jewish Spiritual Guidance (Musar) in the Seventeenth Century

Aaron Levine, Northwestern University

Undergraduate Fellowship

Anna Manchin, University of Toronto

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Reinventing Assimilation: Jewish Identity and National Culture in Interwar Hungarian

Britt Tevis, University of Wisconsin

Mirvis Family Fellowship
May It Displease the Court: Jewish Lawyers and the Democratization of American Law

Ori Yehudai, University of Chicago

Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
Out from Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel, 1945-1960

Sarah Zarrow, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Social Roles of Ethnography for Jews in Interwar Poland

Allan Amanik, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
From Dust to Deeds: Community, Family, and the Commercialization of New York Jewish Burial, 1750-1950

Joshua Furman, University of Maryland

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Approaches to Jewish Childrearing and Education in America During the Baby Boom, 1945-1967

Anna Koch, NYU

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
Rebuilding Lives: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust

Anna Manchin, University of Toronto

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
Reinventing Assimilation: Jewish Identity and National Culture in Interwar Hungarian

Kataryzna Person, Royal Holloway, University of London

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
I am a Jewish DP. A Jew from the Eternal Nowhere.? The Jews from Poland in the Displaced Persons Camps of Western Germany: Encounters with Poles and Memories of Poland, 1945-1946

Amy Smith, Yale University

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Rebuilding and Remembering: Women and the Family Life of Holocaust Survivors in Displaced Persons Camps, the United States, and Israel between 1945 and 1960

Brian Smollett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism: Hans Kohn's Anti-Fascist Ideology

Adam Teller, Brown University

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
In All Directions: The Polish-Jewish Refugee Crisis and the Shape of the Jewish World in the 17th Century

Amy Weiss, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Between Cooperation and Competition: American Jewish and Protestant Zionists, 1939-1977

Dr. Jay Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst

NEH Senior Scholar Fellowship
Protocols of Justice: Marriage, Family and Community in Early Modern France

Rebecca Kahn Bloch, Oberlin College

Steinberg Emerging Jewish Filmmaker Fellowship
Radical Judaism in a Radical Campus: The Emergence of a New Jewish Community at Oberlin College

Jan Lanicek, University of Southampton

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars

Jolanta Mickute, Indiana University

Prins Foundation Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars

Mina Muraoka, Brandeis University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Jews and the Russo-Japanese War: The Triangular Relationship between Jewish POWs, Japan, and Jacob H. Schiff

Adam Sacks, Brown University

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
European Jews and the Question of Wagnerism

David Sclar, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
He Will Flourish like a Cedar in Lebanon: The Life and 'After-Life' of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto

David Weinfeld, NYU

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
What Difference Does the Difference Make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Birth of Cultural Pluralism

Marianna Yarovskaya, University of Southern California

Steinberg Emerging Jewish Filmmaker Fellowship
Survival in Eastern Siberia: The Other Jewish Side

Jennifer Young, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
American Jewish Communists, Anti-Fascism, and the Shaping of Ethnic Culture in the International Workers Order, 1930-1956

Polly Zavadivker, UC Santa Cruz

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Soviet History, Jewish Fate: The War Writings of S. An-sky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman, 1914-1948

Miriam Intrator, CUNY Graduate Center

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Wartime Planning, Postwar Response: UNESCO and the Renewal of Jewish Libraries, Books and Reading in Post-Holocaust, Early Cold War Europe, 1944-56

Agnieszka Legutko, Columbia University

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
Possessed by the Other: Spirit Possession as Modern Jewish Identity: Dybbuk Possession Trope in 20th and 21st Century Jewish Literature and Beyond

Stanley Mirvis, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Jewel of a Sephardic Empire: A Social and Cultural History of Colonial Jamaican Jewry, 1670-1820

Joshua Z. Teplitsky, NYU

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
Between Court Jew and Jewish Court: David Oppenheim, the Prague Rabbinate, and 18th-Century Jewish Politics

Magdalena M. Wrobel, Ludwig Maximillian University Munich

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Jewish Emigrants from Poland to Palestine, 1924-1928 (As an Example for a Transnational Migration of Polish Jews)

Helaine Blumenthal, UC Berkeley

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
The Slansky Affair: Czechoslovak Political Purge Trials of 1952

Rebecca Cutler, University of Pennsylvania

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
American Jews and the Politics of Medicine in the Post-World War II Era

Rachel Gordan, Harvard University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Post-WWII American Judaism: How Judaism Became an American Religion

Zachary Paul Levine, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Chevrolets to Budapest: Transnational Cooperation and a Jewish Aid Regimen for the Cold War

Lara Rabinovitch, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Feeding Identity: Romanian Jewish Immigrants in New York City and Montreal, 1890-1939

Samuel Spinner, Columbia University

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
The Museum of the Jews: Ethnography and Literature about Jews in the 20th Century

Amos Bitzan, UC Berkeley

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
Eastern European Jewry under Occupation, 1915-1918: Practice and Experience

Jessica Hammerman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Heart of the Diaspora: French Jewry in Conflict During the Algerian War, 1954-1967

Kelly Scott Johnson, Harvard University

Lillian Goldman Fellowship
Sholem Schwarzbard: Life and Times of a Yiddish Assassin

David Koffman, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Jews' Indian: Native Americans in the Jewish Imagination and Experience, 1824-1945

Joshua Nathaniel Aaron Lambert, University of Michigan

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Unclean Lips: Obscenity and the Jews in North American Literature and Culture

Jolanta Mickute, Indiana University

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
Modern, Jewish, and Female: Politics of Culture, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Poland and Lithuania, 1918-1939

David H. Horowitz, Columbia University

Cahnman Foundation Fellowship
Fractures and Fissures in Jewish Communal Autonomy in Hamburg and Altona, 1750-1811

Emily Levine, Stanford University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Culture, Commerce, and the City: Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky in Hamburg, 1919-1933

Ellie R. Schainker, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Imperial Hybrids: Russian Jewish Converts in the 19th Century

Elizabeth Strauss, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Elderly in the Ghettos: A Study of Lodz, Vilna, and Riga, 1939-1944

Hilit Surowitz-Israel, University of Florida

Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellowship
La Nacion: Reconstructing Jewish Identity in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Daniella Doron, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Envisioning the Jewish Family: Children, Gender and Identity in Postwar France, 1944-1954

Jeremy Eichler, Columbia University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Musical Migration from Germany to America, 1930s-1940s: The History of German-Jewish Composers in America

Dana Herman, McGill University

Memorial Foundation Fellowship
History of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Organization

Laura Jokusch, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Collect and Record! Help Write the History of the Latest Destruction! Jewish Historical Commissions in Europe 1943-1953

Elissa Bemporad, Stanford University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Red Star on the Jewish Street: The Reshaping of Jewish Life in Soviet Minsk

Maya Benton, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Shuttered Memories of a Vanishing World: The Deliberate Photography of Roman Vishniac and its Effect on Modern Jewish Subconsciousness

Joshua Karlip, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Modern Jewish Culture at the Crossroads: A Case Study of Jewish Socialism, Diaspora, Nationalism, and Yiddishism, 1905-1940

Tamar Kaplan Appel, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Rabbinic Authority in late Imperial Russia, 1905-1917

Amy Blau, University of Illinois

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Afterlives: Translation of German Weltliteratur into Yiddish

Mia S. Bruch, Stanford University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Men: American Jews and American Religious Pluralism, 1941-1960

Sarah Bailey Felsen, UC Berkeley

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
German or "Jargon"?: Jewish Language Writing and Assimilation

Julie G. Lieber, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Jewish Women during turn-of-the-century Vienna: A Study in Gender Construction

Edward A. Portnoy, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Creation of a Jewish Cartoon Space in the Yiddish Presses of New York and Warsaw, 1894-1939

Daniel B. Schwartz, Columbia University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Reclaiming Spinoza: The Heretic from Amsterdam in Modern Jewish Culture, 1832-1918

Marcy Brink-Danan, Stanford University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Mother Tongue: Turkish-Jewish Ideologies of Language and Kinship

Maria Ecker, University of Salzburg

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Integration of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the Popular Perception of the Holocaust in the US

Noah L. Gelfand, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
A People within and without: Sephardic Jewish Communities and Commerce in the 17th and 18th Century Dutch Atlantic World

Noam F. Pianko, Yale University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Reconstructing America: Diaspora Jewish Nationalism in American Jewish Thought, 1900-1950

David Ira Snyder, Princeton University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Enduring Ghetto: Urban Renewal and the Jews in Modern Prague and Warsaw (Bridging Jewish and architectural history)

Alisa Braun, University of Michigan

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Becoming Authorities: Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Affiliation, 1890-1940

Jessica Cooperman, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Jewish Diaspora and the First World War: Germany and the US

James Loeffler, Columbia University

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
The Role of Music as Means of Jewish Social and Cultural Modernization in late Imperial Russia

Avinoam J. Patt, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Jewish DP Youth and Zionism in Post-War Germany

Joshua Perelman, NYU

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Choreographing Identity: Modern Dance and American Jewish Identity 1923-1964

Michaela Raggam-Blesch, University of Graz

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowship in Jewish Culture
Jewish Women during turn-of-the-century Vienna