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Recipients of YIVO Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships 2011-2012
RECIPIENTS OF YIVO FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS, 2011-2012
| AWARD NAME | RECIPIENT | AFFILIATION/WORKING TITLE |
|---|---|---|
| Dina Abramowicz Emerging Scholar Fellowship | Dr. Natalia Aleksiun | Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro College YIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Historians |
| Prof. Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship | Polly Zavadivker | Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History, University of California at Santa Cruz Soviet History, Jewish Fate: The War Writings of S. An-sky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman, 1914-1948 |
| Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship | Jennifer Young | Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History and Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University American Jewish Communists, Anti-Fascism, and the Shaping of Ethnic Culture in the International Workers Order, 1930-1956 |
| Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship | Joshua Walden | Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University Music and Diaspora Identity on the Yiddish Stage |
| Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship | Rachel Rothstein | Ph.D. candidate, European History, University of Florida The Next Chapter: Polish Jewishness since 1968 |
| Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship | Ruth von Bernuth | Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina How the Khakhomim Got to Khelm: Yiddish Versions of the German Schildbürgerbuch and Their Role in the Formation of the Jewish Chelm canon |
| Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship |
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| Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship | Amanda Seigel | Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater |
| Abraham and Rachela Melezin Fellowship | Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota | Editor, Midrasz The Ark of Memory |
| Workmen's Circle/Dr. Emanuel Patt Visiting Professorship | Dr. Scott Ury | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University Jewish Society and Culture in East European Cities, 1860-1914 |
| Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship | Dr. Rebecca Kobrin | Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University The Other Jewish Bankers: East European Jewish Immigrants, Speculative Banking and the Transformation of Jewish Economic Life in the United States and Poland, 1870-1939 |
| Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship | Debra Caplan | Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Staging Jewish Modernism: The Vilna Troupe and the Interwar Yiddish Art Theater Movement |
| Dora and Mayer Tendler Fellowship | Dr. Cristina Michal Bettin | Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University New York-Jerusalem—A Minority Within a Minority |
| Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship | Rachel Deblinger | Ph.D. candidate, Modern European History, University of California, Los Angeles Constructions of Survival: Framing Holocaust Narratives in Postwar America |