2023-2024 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2023-2024 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Yael Levi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Borderlines: The Psyche of Modern Jewish Migration

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Nathan Lucky, Clark University
Resistance with Words: The Jewish Telegraph Agency during the Holocaust

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)

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Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Noa Tsaushu, Columbia University
The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet-Yiddish Avant-Garde

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Jakub Zygmunt, University of Warsaw
Celia Dropkin’s Oeuvre: Literary Traditions and Contexts of Translation

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Netta Ehrlich, New York University
Self-Defense and its Realization in Modern East European Jewish History

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Miranda Brethour, CUNY Graduate Center
“Good Polish Citizens” or “Faithful German Servants”? Violence, the Village Elder, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, 1918-1956

Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“The Lodz Ghetto and the Kriminalpolizei: Jews, Neighbors, and Perpetrators in the Holocaust.”