2012-2013 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2012-2013 faculty and graduate student fellowships:
Award Name |
Recipient |
Affiliation/Working Title |
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| Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship | Dr. Semion Goldin |
Senior Research Fellow, Nevzlin Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Russian Jewry under Tsarist Military Rule during World War I
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| Prof. Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship | Prof. Rakhmiel Peltz |
Professor of Sociolinguistics, Director of Judaic Studies, Drexel University Uriel Weinreich, The Language and Culture of Jews in Eastern Europe
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| Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship | Caroline Luce |
Doctoral candidate, American History, UCLA Visions of a Jewish Future: the Jewish Bakers Union and Yiddish Culture in Los Angeles, 1920–1950
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| Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Racheli Galay |
Visiting Researcher, Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joachim Stutschewsky (1891–1982): The Voice of the Jewish Cello
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| Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Hanna Kozińska-Witt |
--- Jews in Polish Municipal Administration 1918–1939: Cracow, Poznań/Posen and Warsaw
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| Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship | Sunny Yudkoff |
Doctoral candidate, Yiddish and Hebrew Literature, Harvard University “Let it be Consumption!”: Modern Jewish Writing and the Literary Capital of Tuberculosis
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Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship
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No Award |
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| Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Karen Underhill |
Modern Languages and Literatures, Polish Faculty, Loyola University A Study of the Manuscript Stempenyu, oder der yidisher Paganini by Sholem Aleichem
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| Abraham and Rachela Melezin Fellowship | Dr. Lara Lempert |
Lecturer, History, Vilnius University Letter and Spirit: Culture of Reading in Jewish Vilna in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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| Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship | Prof. Naomi Seidman |
Koret Professor of Jewish Culture, Graduate Theological Union A Pious Revolutionary: Rhetorical and Intertextual Strategies in the Writings of Sara Shnirer
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| Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship | Nadja Berkovich |
Doctoral candidate, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Emergence of Literary Ethnography in the Russian Empire: From the Far East to the Pale of Settlement, 1845–1917
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| Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Lara Lempert |
Lecturer, History, Vilnius University Letter and Spirit: Culture of Reading in Jewish Vilna in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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| Dora and Mayer Tendler Fellowship | Faith Jones |
Masters candidate, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia Yiddish Print Culture in Winnipeg
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| Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship | Ori Yehudai |
Doctoral candidate, History, University of Chicago Jewish Remigration from Palestine/Israel after the Second World War |