Institute for Advanced Research

The Center for Jewish History is proud to announce the launching of its new Institute for Advanced Research. Beginning in the fall of 2024, the Institute will welcome its inaugural cohort of ten fellows who will conduct research in the collections of the Center’s member partners. The fellows represent a mix of advanced-, mid-, and early-career scholars who are working on book manuscripts, dissertations, and other academic projects. The incoming cohort will be actively engaged in the intellectual and cultural life of the Center, partaking in regular workshopping sessions of their ongoing research, delivering public presentations, and participating in the special symposia sponsored by the Jewish Public History Forum.

The Institute for Advanced Research represents a notable expansion of the Center for Jewish History’s longstanding fellowship program. Since its creation in 2002, the Center’s fellowship program has supported the research of 145 fellows from more than 50 leading national and international universities. In the process, it has become the preeminent American destination for researchers in the field of Jewish history. The new Institute builds upon this stellar track record by gathering a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of scholars. All fellows are selected by a Fellowship Committee composed of members of the Center’s Academic Advisory Council, a distinguished group of 16 leading university scholars in the field of Jewish History.

Fellows are encouraged to spend at least three days per week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using archival and library resources. Fellows are expected to participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, attend all the meetings of the fellowship program cohort, present a pre-circulated paper to be discussed at one of those meetings, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at CJH, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing their experience as a Center Fellow.

For a complete list of available fellowship programs, please click below to view descriptions and application guidelines. Questions about the fellowship program may be directed to Lauren Gilbert.

Available Fellowships

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Ten-month fellowship providing a stipend of $60,000

Eligibility

  • The fellowships are open to those at the rank of Associate or Full Professor or who received doctoral degrees ten or more years prior to the start of the fellowship.
  • Fellows will be permitted to hold a concurrent fellowship provided it does not contain any residency requirement or interfere in any way with full participation in the activities described above. Please consult the Center before accepting any additional fellowships, academic or other positions to be held during the term of the Center fellowship.
  • For non-U.S. citizens, it is the responsibility of the applicant to have the appropriate visa for acceptance of the award during the ten-month fellowship term. The Center is not a visa-granting institution.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the significance of the project to the study of Jewish history, its organization and methodology, the collections at the Center that will be consulted, your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • One letter of recommendation should be sent separately (by the recommender). Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 10 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Ten-month fellowship providing a stipend of $55,000 focusing on the history of antisemitism

Through the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, the Center for Jewish History invites applications for the Leon Levy Fellowship, which will support original research on the topic of antisemitism using materials in the collections of the Center’s partners: the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Fellows will conduct intensive scholarly research in the Center’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room; they will also present at least two public programs on topics related to the history of antisemitism; lead at least one workshop or class aimed at non-academic audiences to discuss antisemitism and strategies of resistance; contribute a voice to the media on issues related to antisemitism; actively participate in the CJH Fellowship Program cohort by attending regular cohort meetings, presenting on research in progress, and offering feedback on other Fellows’ presentations; participate in public events associated with the Center’s new Jewish Public History Forum and play an advisory role in all events related to antisemitism.

Eligibility

  • The fellowship is intended for early and mid-career scholars from accredited domestic and international institutions.
  • Fellows will be permitted to hold a concurrent fellowship provided it does not contain any residency requirement or interfere in any way with full participation in the activities described above. Please consult the Center before accepting any additional fellowships, academic or other positions to be held during the term of the Center fellowship.
  • For non-U.S. citizens, it is the responsibility of the applicant to have the appropriate visa for acceptance of the award during the ten-month fellowship term. The Center is not a visa-granting institution.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the project’s focus on antisemitism and the importance of the archival collections at the Center. Please also describe your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender. Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 10 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Ten-month graduate fellowship, providing a stipend of $30,000

Eligibility

  • The fellowships are open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and international institutions.
  • Applicants should have completed all requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree except for the dissertation.
  • For non-U.S. citizens, it is the responsibility of the applicant to have the appropriate visa for acceptance of the award during the ten-month fellowship term. The Center is not a visa-granting institution.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the significance of the project to the study of Jewish history, its organization and methodology, the collections at the Center that will be consulted, your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • Graduate school transcript.
  • One letter of recommendation from the candidate’s primary advisor. The letter should address the significance of the candidate’s work for their field, as well as the candidate’s ability to fulfill the proposed work. Please ensure that your application indicates the name and contact information of the person writing the letter on your behalf.
  • Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender. Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 10 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Ten-month graduate fellowship, providing a stipend of $30,000

Eligibility

  • The fellowships are open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and international institutions.
  • Applicants should have completed all requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree except for the dissertation.
  • For non-U.S. citizens, it is the responsibility of the applicant to have the appropriate visa for acceptance of the award during the ten-month fellowship term. The Center is not a visa-granting institution.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the significance of the project to the study of Jewish history, its organization and methodology, the collections at the Center that will be consulted, your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • Graduate school transcript.
  • One letter of recommendation from the candidate’s primary advisor. The letter should address the significance of the candidate’s work for their field, as well as the candidate’s ability to fulfill the proposed work. Please ensure that your application indicates the name and contact information of the person writing the letter on your behalf.
  • Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender. Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 10 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Twelve-month fellowship, providing a stipend of $60,000

Through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) the Center for Jewish History (the Center) invites applications for an NEH Scholar in Residence that will support original research conducted at the Center. Applications are welcome from scholars working in a broad range of fields within the humanities and social sciences. 

Applications are welcome from scholars 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 in the collections of the Center’s partners – American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Fellows conduct original research at the Center, deliver at least one public program based on the research conducted, and actively participate in the scholarly community at the Center. Fellows must acknowledge the National Endowment for the Humanities in all publications resulting from research completed during the fellowship and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing the experience.

Assessment Criteria

  • The ambition, scope, and intellectual significance of the proposed project.
  • The quality and impact of the applicant’s prior work in their respective field.
  • The overall clarity and intelligibility of the proposal, with its aims clearly conveyed.
  • The feasibility and appropriateness of the project proposal, including the applicant’s disciplinary and linguistic training and, when relevant, the soundness of the dissemination and access plans.
  • The likelihood that the applicant will become part of the life of the Center for Jewish History for the time of the fellowship by using its collections for the proposed project and participating in Center events.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the significance of the project to the study of Jewish history, its organization and methodology, the collections at the Center that will be consulted, your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • Contact information for three references who can speak to the significance of the candidate’s work.

Open to all U.S. citizens as well as foreigners who have lived in the U.S. for the 3 years immediately preceding the application deadline. Relocation assistance available to awardees traveling from outside the NYC area.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 12 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Short-term graduate fellowship (2 months) providing a stipend of $5,000 to work on CJH public history projects

Eligibility

  • The fellowship is open to qualified master’s and doctoral students from accredited domestic and international institutions.

Requirements for Application

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • One page statement of experience in public history and interest in working on any element of the Center for Jewish History’s public engagement (exhibits, programs, outreach, etc.).
  • Graduate school transcript.
  • One letter of recommendation from the candidate’s primary advisor. The letter should address the significance of the candidate’s work in public history.
  • Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender. Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and must be completed by September 2025
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The application deadline for fellowships starting in September 2024 is February 19, 2024.

Short-term fellowship providing a stipend of $5,000

This open-rank short-term fellowship welcomes applicants from scholars outside the New York City metropolitan area whose research engages Jewish studies in conversation with other fields and who wish to conduct research based on materials housed at the Center for Jewish History and Fordham University. The fellow is expected to spend at least a month at the two host institutions but may stay as long as five months. The fellow's stay must coincide with either the fall or spring Fordham University academic semesters. The stipend for this fellowship is $5,000.

The goal of the fellowship to engage Jewish studies in conversation with other fields and encourage scholars whose primary research lies in Jewish studies to engage with fields outside their field and scholars whose primary expertise lies in other fields to explore sources and methodologies in Jewish studies.  

The fellow will receive affiliation with Fordham University, and will be required to offer a faculty seminar, and a public lecture, which would be a joint event of Fordham and CJH with alternate venues. The fellow is also expected to participate in scholarly seminars and other meetings at the Center for Jewish History and Fordham University.

This fellowship is open to both established scholars and graduate students.

Applications should include:

  • Short cover letter.
  • Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience.
  • Research proposal of no more than 1500 words describing the significance of the project to the study of Jewish history, its organization and methodology, the collections at the Center that will be consulted, your relevant competencies and skills, your goals for research during the period of the fellowship, and the intended final product.
  • A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project.
  • One letter of recommendation, to be sent separately, directly by the recommender – preferably by email to fellowships@cjh.org.

For graduate student applicants, please also include:

  • The letter of recommendation should come from the candidate’s primary advisor. The letter should address the significance of the candidate’s work for their field, as well as the candidate’s ability to fulfill the proposed work. Please ensure that your application indicates the name and contact information of the person writing the letter on your behalf. (Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender – preferably by email to fellowships@cjh.org)
  • Graduate school transcript.
  • Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation) with the specific fellowship mentioned in the subject heading.

The CJH-Fordham Research Fellowship is made possible by funds from the Center for Jewish History, the Eugene Shvidler Gift Fund at Fordham University, and additional gift funds to Jewish Studies at Fordham University.

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

  • All application materials must be received by February 19, 2024
  • Announcement of grant recipients by April 2024
  • Commencement of grant period is September 2024 and runs for 10 months
  • Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org

Please submit your application materials by email as one continuous PDF file to:

Lauren Gilbert Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 United States of America Email: fellowships@cjh.org

The Center for Jewish History's Visiting Scholar Program invites scholars who have completed their doctorate or its equivalent to apply for an affiliation with the Center and to work in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room in the collections of one or more of its partner institutions: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Visiting Scholar Program does not provide a stipend or financial support.

Visiting Scholars will be expected to commit to a regular presence at the Center for a minimum of three months, working at the Center at least two days per week. Visiting Scholars are expected to play an active role in the Center's Fellowship Program activities by attending meetings with other fellows and either presenting an academic seminar on their work or participating in a public program. Scholars may apply to be affiliated with the Center for a full academic year (September - May), the fall semester (September - December) or spring semester (mid-January - May), or for the summer (June - August).

Junior and senior scholars, including those who are on leave from their home institutions, are encouraged to apply, as are independent scholars and scholars who are between academic appointments.

Eligibility

  • Scholars holding a PhD or equivalent terminal degree
  • Scholars working on projects that make use of the Center partner collections
  • Scholars eager to participate in the Center's active community of researchers

Requirements for Application

  • A complete curriculum vitae
  • A description of the proposed research project, maximum 3 pages in length, including an explanation of which of the Center partners' collections will be used
  • The names and contact information of two references
  • Please send all application materials together electronically as one continuous PDF document.

Applications are to be submitted to:

Lauren Gilbert
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States of America
Email: fellowships@cjh.org

Center for Jewish History Fellows

The Center for Jewish History welcomes a new cohort of outstanding fellows to spend the 2024-25 academic year engaged in cutting-edge research using the Center's Partners' archival collections.

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Robert S. Rifkind Fellowship

Miriam Udel, Emory University

Miriam Udel teaches Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University. Her books include Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (2016), Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature (2020), and a critical study of Yiddish children's literature, forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2025.

Project Title:
"What Do We Tell the Children?: Political Ideology and Children's Culture After the Holocaust"

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National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence

Rachel Gordan, University of Florida

Rachel Gordan is the Samuel "Bud" Shorstein fellow in American Jewish Culture at the University of Florida, where she teaches in the Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies. Her first book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Project Title:
"How Does One Fight Such Things? The Story of the Making of Gentleman's Agreement and the Woman Behind the Novel"

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Leon Levy Fellowship

Andrew Sperling, American University

Andrew Sperling recently earned his PhD in History from American University in Washington, DC. His dissertation, “The Menace Among Us: American Jews Against Antisemitic Extremism,” follows American Jewish strategies against right-wing radicalism between the 1920s and 1960s. His additional research interests include Jewish refugee experiences and Black and Jewish politics.

Project Title:
"The Menace Among Us: American Jews Against Antisemitic Extremism"

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Arcadia Graduate Fellowship

Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky, University of Pennsylvania

Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work investigates the departure of approximately 1.5 million Jews from the former Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era. Centering migrant agency, she explores how Soviet Jews re-outlined the USSR's ambivalent stance on population movement and, more specifically, emigration.

Dissertation Title:
"Should I Stay or Should I Go: Jewish Repatriation, Reunification, and Emigration from the USSR 1955 to 1995"

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The Sid and Ruth Lapidus Graduate Student Fellowship

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer, Yale University

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University, where he is writing a dissertation on American Jewish politics and citizenship between the end of slavery and the start of the New Deal. His academic work has appeared in American Jewish History and Southern Jewish History.

Dissertation Title:
"Useful Citizenship: Jewish Politics in the Age of American State Transformation, 1863-1933"

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The CJH-Fordham University Short-Term Research Fellowship

Noam Bizan, University of Cambridge

Noam Bizan is a History PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the transnational movement for Soviet Jewish emigration in the late Cold War. She has a BA from Brown University in History and an MA from Tel Aviv University in International Relations, Security, and Diplomacy.

Dissertation Title:
"The Transnational Campaign for Free Soviet Jewish (Refusenik) Emigration, 1964-1991"

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Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Short-Term Graduate Public History Fellowship

Alona Bach, MIT

Alona Bach is a PhD candidate in MIT's Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society, where her research focuses on interwar discourse about electric light in the New York Yiddish daily Der Morgen zhurnal. She is also an actor, playwright, translator, Yiddish instructor, and illustrator.

Dissertation Title:
"Electric Yiddishland: Technology and Culture Between the World Wars"

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CJH-NYU Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Alexander Maro, NYU

Alexander Maro is a PhD candidate at New York University's Department of History and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. His research examines authoritarian and imperial projects, violence, and the Jewish world. He is currently working on his dissertation, which traces the history of anti-Jewish violence on Europe's periphery.

Dissertation Title:
"Anti-Jewish Violence on Europe's Periphery"

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Center for Jewish History - New York University Summer Graduate Research Fellowship

Gavin Beinart-Smollan, NYU

Gavin Beinart-Smollan is a PhD candidate in History/Hebrew & Judaic Studies at New York University and serves as the public historian in residence at The Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. He holds an MA in modern Jewish history from Hebrew University.

Dissertation Title:
"Fragile Ties: The Transnational Family Relationships of Lithuanian Jews, 1899-1949"

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CUNY Graduate Center-CJH Short-Term Research Fellowship

Miranda Brethour, CUNY

Miranda Brethour is a PhD Candidate at the City University of New York's Graduate Center writing a dissertation on rural Polish self-government and the Holocaust in the Lublin region. She received her BA (2017) and MA (2019) in History from the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her research on rural Jewish-Polish relations in German-occupied Poland has featured in The Journal of Holocaust Research, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, and the Journal of Historical Geography.

Dissertation Title:
"Faithful German Servants' or 'Good Polish Citizens' Violence, the Village Head, and Daily Life in Interwar and Occupied Poland, 1918 to 1956"

Past Fellows

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

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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)

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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)

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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)

2002

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