2015-2016 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Mar 1, 2015

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2015-2016 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Award Name	Recipient	Affiliation/Working Title
The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship	Chantal Ringuet	PhD in Literary Studies, l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) Two Jewish Women Writers in North America: Rachel Korn (1898-1982) and Kadia Molodowsky (1894-1974)
Fellowship in American Jewish History (The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies)	David Slucki	Visiting Assistant Professor, Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston Colleagues in Destiny: Holocaust Survivor Communities in the United States
Fellowship in Baltic Jewish History (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)	Milena Zeidler	Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Oxford Transnational Jewish Relief Networks and the Emergence of Jewish Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, c. 1850s-1870s
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies (The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship and the Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship)	Thomas Chopard	PhD Candidate in History, EHESS (Paris, France) The First Catastrophe of East European Jewry: Wars, Pogroms, Displacements and Survival, 1914-1924
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature (The Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship and the Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship)	Sonia Gollance	Doctoral Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania; Spring 2015 Doctoral Fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Harmonious Instability: (Mixed) Dancing and Partner Choice in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature
Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts (The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)	Nick Underwood	PhD Candidate in modern European and Jewish history, University of Colorado Boulder Staging a New Community: Jewish Immigrant Culture in Interwar France, 1920-1940
Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies (The Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship and the Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship)	Amy Kerner	Doctoral Candidate in Modern European History and Modern Jewish History, Brown University What remains? The language remains: Multilingual Polish-Jewish intellectuals and Yiddish (1944-1965)
The Workers Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies	Miriam Udel	Assistant Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies, Emory University Grimmer than Grimm? Twentieth-Century Yiddish Children’s Literature

Award Name

Recipient

Affiliation/Working Title

The Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship

Chantal Ringuet

PhD in Literary Studies, l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)

Two Jewish Women Writers in North America: Rachel Korn (1898-1982) and Kadia Molodowsky (1894-1974)

Fellowship in American Jewish History

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

David Slucki

Visiting Assistant Professor, Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston

Colleagues in Destiny: Holocaust Survivor Communities in the United States

Fellowship in Baltic Jewish History

(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)

Milena Zeidler

Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Oxford

Transnational Jewish Relief Networks and the Emergence of Jewish Internationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, c. 1850s-1870s

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

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

Thomas Chopard

PhD Candidate in History, EHESS (Paris, France)

The First Catastrophe of East European Jewry: Wars, Pogroms, Displacements and Survival, 1914-1924

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Literature

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

Sonia Gollance

Doctoral Candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania; Spring 2015 Doctoral Fellow, Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Harmonious Instability: (Mixed) Dancing and Partner Choice in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature

Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, Theater and Arts

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Nick Underwood

PhD Candidate in modern European and Jewish history, University of Colorado Boulder

Staging a New Community: Jewish Immigrant Culture in Interwar France, 1920-1940

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Amy Kerner

Doctoral Candidate in Modern European History and Modern Jewish History, Brown University

What remains? The language remains: Multilingual Polish-Jewish intellectuals and Yiddish (1944-1965)

The Workers Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies

Miriam Udel

Assistant Professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies, Emory University

Grimmer than Grimm? Twentieth-Century Yiddish Children’s Literature