RECIPIENTS OF YIVO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS, 2013–2014
| AWARD NAME | RECIPIENT | AFFILIATION/WORKING TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship | Dr. Karolina Szymaniak | Assistant Professor, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw Colonies of Yiddishland? (Ex)territorial Discourses in Yiddish Literary Criticism and the Politics of Modern Yiddish Culture |
| American Jewish Studies (Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship & Dora and Mayer Tendler Fellowship) |
Marcus Krah | Doctoral Candidate, Jewish Theological Seminary Turning a Lost World Into a Usable Past - How American Jews at Mid-20th Century Re-Invented Their East European History |
| Baltic Jewish Studies (Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship, Abraham and Rachela Melezin Fellowship & Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship) |
Isabelle Rozenbaumas | Independent Scholar Yavne Telz School Was Life |
| East European Jewish Studies (Prof. Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship & Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship) |
Jason Lustig | Doctoral Candidate, UCLA Making History: The Proliferation and Impact of Modern Archives for Jewish History |
| East European Literature and Arts (Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship, Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship & Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship) |
Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka | Doctoral Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Cracow The Transformation of the Jewish Musical Tradition in Galicia in the Interwar Period |
| Polish Jewish Studies (Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship & Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship) |
Sarah Zarrow | Doctoral Candidate, NYU The Social Role of Ethnography for Jews in Interwar Poland |
| Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship | Prof. Eugene Avrutin | Associate Professor, University of Illinois The Velizh Affair: Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town |
| *Honorary - American Jewish Studies | Liati May-Hai | Doctoral Candidate, Jewish Theological Seminary The Life and Poetry of Berish Weinstein |
| *Honorary - East European Jewish Studies | Mihály Kálmán | Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University Shtetl Heroes: Jewish Self-Defense from the Pale to Palestine, 1871-1936 |
| *Honorary - East European Jewish Studies | Adi Mahalel | Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University The Birth of a Jewish Radical: I.L. Peretz in the 1890s |