Fellowship Opportunities at the Center
Center for Jewish History Fellowship Programs
The Center for Jewish History creates opportunities for scholars to immerse themselves in explorations of the primary source materials preserved within its walls.
For the past 11 years, the Center’s Fellowship Program has offered financial support to a diverse group of more than 60 humanities scholars at various stages of their careers and research projects. Support from the NEH and other funders has been critical in helping to build an interdisciplinary community of scholars who, through their work, will expand the reach of the partners’ rich collections and create new scholarship.
The Center strives to support the next generation of scholars as they write texts that illuminate the past and help to define the future. For a complete list of available fellowship programs, please click below to view descriptions and application guidelines.
NEH Fellowship for Senior Scholars
The Center offers fellowships to senior scholars through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The awards support original research at the Center in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies and Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and history. Applications are welcome from college and university faculty in any field who have completed a PhD more than six years prior to the start of the fellowship and whose research will benefit considerably from consultation with materials housed at the Center. Fellowships carry a stipend of up to $50,400 for a period of one academic year. Fellows are expected to conduct original research at the Center, deliver at least one lecture based on the research conducted, actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center, acknowledge the Center and NEH in all publications resulting from research completed during the fellowship and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing the experience.
Application Guidelines
Prins Foundation Fellowship for Senior Scholars
The Center for Jewish History announces a new fellowship to be awarded to an immigrating senior scholar through a grant from the Vivian G. Prins Foundation. The award supports original research at the Center in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies and Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and history. Applications are welcome from foreign senior scholars in any field who have completed a Ph.D. more than six years prior to the start of the fellowship and whose research will benefit substantially from consultation of materials housed at the Center. The fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000 as well as a relocation stipend of up to $15,000 for a period of one academic year. The Prins Senior Scholar is expected to conduct original research at the Center, deliver two lectures based on the research conducted, actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center, acknowledge the Center and Prins Foundation in all publications resulting from research completed during the fellowship, and submit a final report upon completion of the fellowship.
Application Guidelines
Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral and Early Career Fellowship for Emigrating Scholars
We invite foreign scholars who seek permanent teaching and research positions in the United States to apply for this award, which will support 12-month fellowships for scholars who are at the beginning of their careers. Fellows will be provided with an annual stipend of $35,000 to conduct original research at the Center's Lillian Goldman Reading Room and utilize the vast collections of our partners. This award allows the Center to serve as the gateway for emerging scholars seeking to begin a new academic life in the U.S. Fellows are expected to conduct original research at the Center, deliver at least one lecture based on the research conducted, actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing the experience.
Application Guidelines
Prins Foundation Fellowship for Emigrating Artists and Writers-in-Residence
The Center for Jewish History announces a new fellowship to be awarded to Emigrating Artists and Writers through a grant from the Vivian G. Prins foundation. The award supports original research for early stage projects by foreign artists and writers from a variety of disciplines that may include: journalists, novelists, poets, travel writers, biographers, photographers, visual artists, and others outside of academia.
Applicants must demonstrate significant need for sustained access to the collections at the Center, commit to regular attendance in the research facilities during the ten month fellowship period, and articulate their intent to pursue their work in the United States or Canada beyond the fellowship. The ten month fellowship, beginning in January 2013, carries a stipend of up to $3,250.00 per month. The Prins Artist-in residence is expected to conduct original research at the Center, deliver one public presentation based on the work conducted, actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center, acknowledge the Center and Prins Foundation in all publications resulting from research completed during the fellowship, and submit a final report upon completion of the fellowship.
Application Guidelines
Visiting Scholars Program
We invite scholars working in the field of Jewish Studies who have completed their doctorate or its equivalent to apply for an affiliation with the Center to work in the collections of one or more of its partner institutions. Scholars are generally expected to commit to a regular presence at the Center for at least three months. Scholars may apply for a full academic year, the fall or spring semester, or for the summer. Visiting scholars will be provided with work space, a the Center e-mail account and access to the Center resources. This program does not provide a stipend or financial support. During their period of affiliation, Visiting Affiliated Scholars are expected to attend monthly seminars of the Center graduate fellows and to offer a seminar presentation on their own scholarly work.
Application Guidelines
Graduate Research Fellowship
The Center for Jewish History, composed of its five partners (American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) offers ten month fellowships to doctoral candidates to support original research using the collections at the Center. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the library and archival resources of more than one partner institution. Fellows must be in residence at the Center from September 2013- June 2014 and applicants should have completed all requirements (coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree except for the dissertation. It is required that each fellow spend a minimum of 3 days/week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using the archival and library resources. Fellows must also participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at Center, and submit a report upon completion of the Fellowship describing her/his experience as a Center Fellow.
Application Guidelines
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Advanced undergraduate students at North American universities are invited to apply to carry out research in the archives and libraries of the Center's partner institutions. This fellowship is designed for third and fourth year undergraduates preparing theses or other major projects in Jewish history and related fields. Projects require substantive use of archival and printed sources (e.g., newspapers, collections of sermons, memoirs, institutional reports) housed at the Center and not available at the student's home institution. The amount of the fellowship is up to $1,000 and students are encouraged to seek matching funding from their home institutions. The award may be used for travel purposes and lodging while at the Center.
Application Guidelines
Joseph S. Steinberg Emerging Jewish Filmmaker Fellowship
Undergraduate and graduate emerging filmmakers working on their own original projects on topics related to modern Jewish history are encouraged to apply for this fellowship, which supports research in the archives housed at the Center. The award is designed to help further existing projects, or to start new projects, whose subject matter is in line with the collections housed at the Center. Recipients are eligible for awards of up to $5,000 and are provided with access to the resources at the Center. Students are selected for one academic year of research through a rigorous and competitive process and are expected to present finished works, or works in progress, to a public audience at the Center.
Application Guidelines
Seminar on Archival and Historical Research
The Center for Jewish History Seminar on Archival and Historical Research is a three-day program for rising college seniors, recent university and college graduates, M.A. students, and first- and second-year doctoral students to learn the skills and methods of conducting archival research within one of the premier research libraries in the United States. The seminar’s focus will be geared towards learning a variety of tools to access information and incorporate archival and library research into specific projects. In addition, participants will be introduced to the vast holdings of the Center’s partner organizations, and the ways those collections are created, stored, and preserved.
The 2013 research seminar will welcome students from various disciplines including history, Jewish studies, literature, religion, politics, sociology, anthropology, as well as area and regional studies. Teaching sessions will be led by scholars familiar with the collections housed at the Center; archivists and librarians of the Center’s five partner organizations; staff members of the Center’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room; and CJH Graduate, Post-Doctoral, and Senior Scholar Fellows. Each participant will have the opportunity to conduct their own research in the Center’s Reading Room, utilizing the full complement of the available research tools.
Application Guidelines
Applications are welcome from rising college seniors, recent university and college graduates, M.A. students, and first and second year PhD students.
Requirements for Application
- Cover letter that briefly addresses your interest in participating in the research seminar, knowledge of foreign languages, and previous use of archives or special collections
- Three-page proposal addressing why you would benefit from participating in the Center for Jewish History Research Seminar and how the seminar fits in with your long-term goals
- Curriculum Vitae
- One letter of recommendation from a faculty member
Applications are due by March 4, 2013. All application material should be submitted as one continuous PDF or Word file to fellowships@cjh.org. Letters of recommendation should be submitted under separate cover.
Current Center Fellows
Adam Teller, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History, Brown University
NEH Senior Scholar
Adam Teller is an Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Brown University and the 2012-2013 Senior NEH Scholar at the Center for Jewish History. Professor Teller specializes in early modern history, specifically on the history of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His research focuses on the ways in which Jews became an integral part of society there and the tensions this aroused. He has written two monographs (in Hebrew), one on living conditions in the Jewish quarter of Poznan, titled The Jewish Quarter of Poznan and its Population in the First Half of the 17th Century, the other on the roles played by Jews in Lithuania's eighteenth century magnate economy, titled Money, Power, and Influence: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates in 18th Century Lithuania, as well as numerous articles (in English) on social and cultural issues. During his tenure as the Senior NEH Scholar Professor Teller will work on a study that will deal with the seventeenth century Polish-Lithuanian Jewish refugee crisis that followed the Chmielnicki uprising of 1648 and subsequent wars.
Anna Manchin, Ph.D., Brown University
Prins Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow
Reinventing Assimilation: Jewish Identity and National Culture in Interwar Hungarian Comedy Film
Description of Work: My research focuses on Jewish identity, middle class culture, nationalism and gender in modern Eastern Europe. I am interested in how popular cultural representations can complicate our understanding of how minorities positioned themselves in majority culture. I am currently working on a book Fables of Modernity: Jews, Nationalism and Comedy films in Interwar Hungary; it explores how and why Jewish filmmakers maintained their leading role in the creation of popular entertainment films until the late 1930s in a country that increasingly questioned Jewish participation in national life. The romantic comedy films, offering glamorous images of a modernizing Hungary, helped construct a popular vision of the nation that spoke not only to Jews but to all Hungarians. But their representations of modern Hungary were strikingly different from the racially exclusive nationalism increasingly widespread in politics. Using a subtle parody of Jewish-non-Jewish relations, the films invented a new image of the Hungarian middle class and a new place for Jews in Hungarian culture.
Other Interests: My other interests include current social and cultural trends, data analysis and visualization, running, and dogs.
Kataryzna Person, PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London
Prins Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow
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
Description of Work: I am a historian of modern Eastern European Jewish history, specializing in the Holocaust and its immediate aftermath. In my PhD I looked at the assimilated, acculturated and baptised Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. I am also the editor of two volumes of documents from the Warsaw Ghetto's Ringelblum Archive. During my fellowship in the CJH, I will be working on the encounter between Polish and Jewish DPs in postwar Germany.
Other Interests: I gained my first degree in drama and I am really looking forward to New York theater.
Allan Amanik, NYU
Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture
From Dust to Deeds: Community, Family, and the Commercialization of New York Jewish Burial, 1750-1950
Description of Work: This project traces the evolution of New York's Jewish burial enterprise from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. From a deeply ritual and communal rite in the colonial period, Jewish burial moved to something more of a commercial service, centered on the family and tied to its economic security. This study asks why that shift occurred in the funerary realm, and how those changing priorities impacted larger social developments. Whether matters of institutional affilation; power dynamics among leaders and laity; the construction of gender or generational roles, or even family patterns and decisions of marriage, local Jews’ consistent desire to secure their burials in advance often underwrote the broader social systems in which they lived. Through a long history of New York’s Jewish burial enterprise, this work seeks to highlight the overlooked and often unexpected ways in which matters of death had a hand in the obstacles and opportunities shaping people’s day-to-day lives. The project incorporates larger fields of study including: US History, Social History, Immigration, Women and Gender Studies, and histories of the Family, Urban Space, and Private Life.
Joshua Furman, University of Maryland
Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture
Approaches to Jewish Childrearing and Education in America During the Baby Boom, 1945-1967
Description of Work: My dissertation examines approaches to Jewish childrearing and education in the United States during the baby boom era, from 1945 to 1967. I explore how key events and developments of the mid-20th century, including the Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, the Cold War, and suburbanization, influenced and transformed efforts to raise and educate the largest cohort of American Jewish children to date. I am particularly interested in teasing out the multiple visions of the "perfect" Jewish child that emerge from parenting journals and guidebooks, Jewish children's literature, social science studies, sermons, and the promotional and educational materials produced by and used in religious schools and summer camps. Scholarly analysis of childrearing practices provides a rich avenue of inquiry into the values and priorities of a particular society or group. By looking at these efforts to imagine and create the ideal American Jewish child, we can better understand the anxieties and desires at play within the various sectors of the American Jewish community in this period of dramatic change.
Other Interests: Broadly speaking, I am interested in American Jewish social and cultural history, the history of childhood, Yiddish studies, and Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965.
Anna Koch, NYU
Cahnman Foundation Fellow
Rebuilding Lives - Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust
Description of Work: My research project focuses on the small number of Italian and German Jews who remained or returned to Italy and Germany after the Holocaust. It asks how they coped with the trauma they experienced under the Nazi and Fascist regimes, how they remade their lives, and how they related to their home country, its past and its people after WWII. It investigates surviving Jews’ return to their home, and sheds light on their postwar encounters with non-Jewish neighbors and friends as well as with state bureaucracies. This study offers a comparative perspective on postwar Jewish history, contrasting the experiences of surviving Jews in Italy, East Germany and West Germany. Utilizing an extensive range of sources from archives located in the US, Israel, Italy and Germany, my dissertation will enhance our present knowledge of material as well as psychological reconstruction after WWII, and add to our understanding of the complex logics of home, national belonging, and identity formation.
Other Interests: I enjoy reading, running, practicing yoga, hiking, traveling, and spending time with my family and friends.
Amy Smith, Yale University
Lillian Goldman Fellow
Rebuilding and Remembering: Women and the Family Life of Holocaust Survivors in Displaced Persons Camps, the United States, and Israel between 1945 and 1960
Description of Work: My project examines the impact of the Holocaust on the family life of Holocaust survivors between 1945 and 1960. It begins with liberation and the search for surviving relatives, then examines the formation of new families in the displaced persons' camps in Europe. Finally, it traces families who immigrated to either America or Israel, and examines the impact of immigration on family life. It focuses on the process of mourning and rebuilding that Holocaust survivors had to face. It is my contention that studying family life provides a unique window into this complex process, and ensures that the experiences of male and female Holocaust survivors are analyzed as interrelated but distinct subjects.
Other Interests: My other research interests include the Holocaust itself, twentieth century Jewish history, and black-Jewish relations in America.
Brian Smollett, CUNY Graduate Center
Morris & Alma Schapiro Fellow
Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism: Hans Kohn’s Anti-Fascist Ideology
Description of Work: My research at the Center for Jewish History focuses on the historian of nationalism, Hans Kohn. My dissertation, tentatively titled, "Reviving Enlightenment in the Age of Nationalism," explores Kohn's post-Zionist, American phase. I will be researching Kohn's life and context, focusing on the development of his anti-totalitarian polemics during the 1930s and 1940s, and the impact this period had on his later approaches to global national movements and ideologies. I also hope to gain, through the resources at the CJH, a fuller understanding of Kohn's often elusive Jewish identity and to re-examine ideological changes and continuities from his earlier, Zionist phase.
Other Interests: When not working on my dissertation, I enjoy traveling, skiing, boating and making pizzas.
Amy Weiss, NYU
Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture
Between Cooperation and Competition: American Jewish and Protestant Zionists, 1939-1977
Description of Work: My dissertation examines the socio-political and ideological shift in American Protestant support for Israel and Zionism from 1939 to 1976. I argue that post-World War II shifts in American Zionist rhetoric, United States foreign policy concerns, and the Israeli domestic agenda helped cause the decline of liberal Protestant support for Israel and led to the entry of evangelical Protestant Zionists into the American Zionist movement. By examining interactions between American Jews and Protestants over time, I demonstrate that denominational and political affiliations affected interreligious Zionist cooperation.
Other Interests: I served as a Lipper Intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, where I continue to give tours to middle school and high school groups. I also enjoy playing volleyball in New York City sports leagues.
Past Center Fellows
2011
Dr. Jay Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts
Protocols of Justice: Marriage, Family and Community in Early Modern France
Dr. Berkovitz's project will investigate the civil proceedings of the Metz Rabbinic Court (1771-1789).
Rebecca Kahn Bloch, Oberlin College
Radical Judaism in a Radical Campus: The Emergence of a New Jewish Community at Oberlin College
This project will explore the varying facets of Jewish student life and engagement at a small, liberal arts campus whose student body is almost 30% Jewish but where active involvement in traditional Jewish campus life is minimal. By exploring both the present and the often radical past of Jewish life on the Oberlin campus, from the 1960s to the present, this project will endeavor to understand this fracture, to trace its historical roots using collections housed at the Center, and to contextualize this place and time not only within the history of Oberlin College, but also within that of American collegiate Jewish communities.
Jan Lanicek, formerly of the Czech Republic
Dr. Lanicek’s work focuses on bystanders’ studies and the responses of the Czechoslovak exiles to the Jewish plight between 1938 and 1948 as well as a comparative analysis of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in Nazi-occupied East Central Europe.
Jolanta Mickute, Lithuania
Dr. Mikute is researching a manuscript on Jewish women nationalists in interwar Poland and Lithuania.
Mina Muraoka, Brandeis University
Jews and the Russo-Japanese War: The Triangular Relationship between Jewish POWs, Japan, and Jacob H. Schiff
Adam Sacks, Brown University
European Jews and the Question of Wagnerism
David Sclar, CUNY Graduate Center
He Will Flourish like a Cedar in Lebanon: the Life and 'After-Life' of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto
David Weinfeld, New York University
What Difference Does the Difference Make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Birth of Cultural Pluralism
Marianna Yarovskaya, University of Southern California (graduate)
Survival in Easter Siberia: The Other Jewish Side
This project will reveal one of the most intriguing chapters in 20th century Jewish and Russian histories - the creation in 1934, by Stalin, of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birodbijan in Siberia. At its peak, Birodbijan was home to 45,000 Jews, serving as a "homeland" for Soviet Jews. Over the decades, however, ravaged by disease and Stalin's "Great Terror", this Jewish community all but ceased to exist, and by the late 1990s, there were barely a few thousand Jews left in the region. Now, however, with the renaissance of Yiddish culture and language, just as it seemed that the Stalinist attempt to create a socialist Jewish homeland in the wilderness would fade into history, local Jews have effected a remarkable revival, even as the Russian parliament moves to remove the J.A.R. from the map of Russia.
Jennifer Young, New York University
American Jewish Communists, Anti-Fascism, and the Shaping of Ethnic Culture in the International Workers Order, 1930-1956
Polly Zavadivker, University of California at Santa Cruz
Soviet History, Jewish Fate: The War Writings of S. An-sky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman, 1914-1948
2010
Miriam Intrator, Graduate Center, CUNY
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
Possessed by the Other: Spirit Possession as Modern Jewish Identity: Dybbuk Possession Trope in 20th and 21st Century Jewish Literature and Beyond
Stanley Mirvis, Graduate Center, CUNY
The Jewel of a Sephardic Empire: A Social and Cultural History of Colonial Jamaican Jewry, 1670-1820
Joshua Z. Teplitsky, New York University
Between Court Jew and Jewish Court: David Oppenheim, the Prague Rabbinate, and 18th-Century Jewish Politics
Magdalena M. Wrobel, University College London
The Jewish Emigrants from Poland to Palestine, 1924-1928 (As an Example for a Transnational Migration of Polish Jews)
2009
Helaine Blumenthal, University of CA, Berkeley
The Slansky Affair: Czechoslovak Political Purge Trials of 1952
In 2003, Helaine graduated from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors in the fields of History and English Literature. In 2005, she began her graduate career as a doctoral student in the Department of History at UC Berkeley. Her fields of specialization include Modern Jewish and East/Central European History. At UC Berkeley, she has been the recipient of several fellowships and honors including the Chancellor's Fellowship for Graduate Study, the Albert Newman Fellowship for Visually Impaired Students, and the Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors. In addition to her time at Berkeley, she has spent a great deal of time in the Czech Republic where she engaged in intensive language training as well as historical research. She is currently conducting dissertation research at the Center for Jewish History where she holds the title of 2009-2010 Cahnman Foundation Fellow. Her dissertation entitled Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and the Making of Post-WWII Jewish Identities embraces her primary academic interests-i.e. Czech, Soviet, and Jewish history. She plans to finish the doctoral degree by May 2011.
Partner Fellowship Programs
AJHS
| Ruth B. Fein | Travel stipend for graduate research at the Society. | up to $1000 |
| Sid and Ruth Lapidus | Graduate students/scholars research in 18th cent. American Jewish history. | variable by number of successful applicants |
| Schilder | Graduate student NYU for research at AJHS housed at the Center for Jewish History. | not determined |
| Wasserman | Brandeis Univ. graduate student working at Waltham Center on some aspect of American Jewish experience. Awarded by dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies in consultation with AJHS. | not specified |
For additional information about AJHS fellowships at the Center for Jewish History, please contact Susan Malbin at smalbin@ajhs.cjh.org.
LBI
| LBI/DAAD | Doctoral students or recent Ph.D.'s. Financial assistance for dissertation research/or to academics for preparation of publication through LBI resources. | $2000/year two awarded per year |
| David Baumgardt Memorial | For academics whose research projects are connected with the writing of Prof. David Baumgardt or his scholarly interests. | up to $3000 |
| Fritz Halbers | Doctoral students for research on culture and history of German–speaking Jewry. | up to $3000 |
| Fred Grubel Fellowship | A paid summer internship program for a graduate student who will participate in work on a specific research topic (jointly determined by the candidate and the LBI) related to LBI collections, which can include archives, library, photo collection, and art collection. | $1,500 per month |
For additional information about LBI fellowships at the Center for Jewish History, please contact Frank Mecklenburg at fmecklenburg@lbi.cjh.org.
YIVO
All recipients are expected to give a public lecture or submit a report on their research.
| Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship | Intended primarily for post-doctoral research on a topic in Eastern European Jewish Studies. The work should lead to a significant scholarly publication and may encompass the revision of a doctoral dissertation. For a period of two to three months and delivery of a public lecture. | $3000 |
| Workmen's Circle /Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship in Eastern European Jewish Studies | Established by the Van Cortlandt Workmen's Circle Community House, it is designed to support three months of post-doctoral research and a public lecture by the visiting faculty member. | $5000 |
| Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial | This fellowship supports original doctoral or post-doctoral research in the field of East European Jewish studies. The fellowship is for a period of one to three months to conduct research and a public lecture by the holder. | $7500 |
| Dora and Meyer Tendler | Established by Mr. Meyer Tendler in memory of his late wife, it is designed to support graduate research in Jewish Studies. | $3000 |
| Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial | A fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies. Established by Mr. Brian Weinstein, it is designed to support travel for Ph.D. dissertation research in archives and libraries of the Baltic states, with preference given to research on the Jews of Courland and Latvia. | $2000 |
| Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship | The Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship supports research on the destruction of Polish Jewry or on Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust period. The research should result in a scholarly publication. | $2500 |
| Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial | Dedicated to American Jewish history. Special consideration for work on Jewish labor movement. For a period of one to three months. A public lecture is required. | $2500 |
| Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial | A fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music. Established by the estate of the late Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz, it is designed to assist an undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate researcher. | $1500 |
| Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial | For research on modern Polish-Jewish history particularly Jewish-Polish relations and Jewish contributions to Polish literature and culture. For a one to three months. | $1500 |
| Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial | For original research in Yiddish literature. For a period of one to three months. A public lecture is required. | $2000 |
| Abraham and Rachela Melezin | For research on Jewish educational networks in pre–war Vilna/Vilna region. Period one to three months during spring semester. | $1500 |
| Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial | This fellowship supports original doctoral or post-doctoral research in the field of East European Jewish history. The fellowship is for a period of one to three months to conduct research and a public lecture by the holder. | $1500 |
| Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial | Original research in Lithuanian Jewish history, particularly the city of Vilnius. One to three months. A public lecture is required. | $1500 |
| Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship | The Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Music, is designed to assist a researcher at the YIVO Archives and Library. | $2000 |
For additional information about YIVO fellowships at the Center for Jewish History, please contact Paul Glasser at pglasser@yivo.cjh.org.