2000-2001 Program
Modern Jewry and the Arts

Name
Area of Research
Zachary Braiterman 
Syracuse University
Nancy and Lawrence Glick Teaching Fellow

Aesthetic Turns in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
Miroslawa Bulat (F)
Jagiellonian University
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow

Cracow's Jews and the Arts in Theater: 1918-1939
Charles Dellheim
Arizona State University
Ella Darivoff Fellow

Artful Jews: Culture and Commerce in Modernity
Anat Helman
Hebrew University
Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellow

Film and Pulp Fiction: Consuming Popular Culture in Israel in the Early 1950's
Amy Horowitz 
Smithsonian Institution
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow

Israeli Mediterranean Music: Culture Resistance and Reformation in Disputed Territory
Marion Kant (F)
University of Surrey
Joseph Lewitan and the Aryanization of German Dance
Jonathan Karp (S)
State University of New York, Binghamton 
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow
American Music: Black, White, and Jew: 
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (S)
University of New York
Exhibiting Jews: Jewish participation in World Fairs in Europe and the U.S.: 1850-1940
Mark Kligman (S)
Hebrew Union College, New York
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellow

Jewish Music in America: 1960's - 1990's
Diana Linden
University of Indiana, Bloomington 
The New Deal Mural of Ben Shahn: Jewish Identity and the Culture of Labor
Ezra Mendelsohn 
Hebrew University
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished Fellow,
Walter and Rose Zifkin Teaching Fellow
Art and Jewish History: Maurycy Gottlieb Among the Jews, Poles, and Israelis
Gideon Ofrat (F)
Alma College, Tel-Aviv
Michael R. Steinhardt Fellow

Is Israeli Art Jewish?
Gershon Shaked (S)
Hebrew University
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellow

Art, Literature and Society in Palestine and Israe
Anna Shternshis 
Oxford University
Samuel Grunfeld Fellow

Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union: 1925-1941
Susan Suleiman (S)
Harvard University
Crises of Memory and the Second World War in France
Judith Thissen (S)
Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Silent Cinema and Cultural Identity in American Jewish History
Nina Warnke  
Columbia University
Martin Gruss Fellow

Reforming New York Yiddish Theater: Cultural Politics of Immigrant Intellectuals and the Yiddish Press
Carol Zemel  
State University of New York, Buffalo
Louis and Bessie Stein Fellow

Graven Images: Visual Culture and Modern Jewish History
SHORT-TERM FELLOW
Richard Cohen (February)
Hebrew University
ADJUNCT FELLOWS
Marsha Edelman
Gratz College
Kay Knittel
Seton Hall University 
Eric Goldman
Ergo Media
Harry Rand
Smithsonian Institution
Norman Kleeblatt
The Jewish Museum, NY
Michael Steinlauf
Gratz College