2020-2021 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows

Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2020-2021 faculty and graduate student fellowships:

Yaakov Herskovitz, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Bilingualism Reimagined: Hebrew, Yiddish and Self-Translation

Fellowship in American Jewish Studies

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

Hannah Greene, New York University
Able to Be American: American Jews and the Public Charge Provision in United States Immigration Policy, 1891-1934

Fellowship in Baltic Jewish Studies

(The Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies, the Abraham and Rachela Melezin Memorial Fellowship and the Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship)

No award.

Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater

(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)

Pawel Michna, Jagiellonian University
Functioning of the Graphic Office in the Lodz Ghetto

Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature

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

Matthew Johnson, University of Chicago
“Faltering Language: German-Yiddish Literature after 1900”

Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies

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

Hanna Abakunova, University of Sheffield
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations on the Eve and during the Holocaust: Analysis of Betrayal and Rescue of Jews in Ukraine

Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies

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

Kamil Kijek, University of Wroclaw
Micro-history of the Jewish community of the Lower Silesian town Dzierżoniów, 1945-1950.

Katarzyna Person, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
The Search for Justice as a Community Building Process among Polish Jews: National and Transnational Aspects.