2002-2003 Program
JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE IN EASTERN EUROPE

Name
Area of Research

Israel Bartal (F)
Hebrew University
Ella Darivoff Fellow


From Corporation to Nation: The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

 

Hamutal Bar-Yosef (F)
Ben-Gurion University

The Russian Roots of Jewish Neo-Mysticism

David Engel (S)
New York University
Louis and Bessie Stein Fellow


The Twenty Years' Crisis of East European Jewry: 1919-1939

Jonathan Frankel (F)
Hebrew University
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished Fellow


Russian-Jewish Life as Refracted through the Writings of Yosef Haim Brenner: 1900-1909

Zvi Gitelman (S)
University of Michigan
Primo Levi Fellow


Historical Turning Points and Soviet Jewish Identities

Francois Guesnet (F)
Leipzig University

The Polish Experience: Political Culture and Jewish Collective Identities, 1840-1881

Kathryn Hellerstein (S)
University of Pennsylvania

Women Yiddish Poets in Eastern Europe

Hillel Kieval (F)
Washington University
Primo Levi Fellow

Crisis and Everyday Life in East Central Europe: The Modern Ritual Murder Trial

John Klier
University College London
Samuel Grunfeld Fellow Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellow


Reassessing the Foundation Myths of Russian Jewish History: 1827-1894

Jack Kugelmass (S)
Arizona State University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow

Redaction and Polemic: Origen and the Rabbis on the Song of Songs Rabbah Jewish Life in Post-War Poland
Cecile Kuznitz (F)
George Washington University
History of the YIVO Institute

Olga Litvak (S)
Princeton University
Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellow

Literature and Counter History: The Memory of Military Conscription in Russian-Jewish Culture
Rachel Manekin
Hebrew University
Ruth Meltzer Fellow

Shifting Identities: The 'Agudas Achim' Society and the Polonization of Galican Jewry: 1882-1892
Marcus Moseley
Harvard University

From People of the Book to Literary Nation: On the Emergence of Literature in Jewish Eastern Europe
Kenneth Moss
Johns Hopkins University
Betty and Morris Shuch Fellow

A Time for Tearing Down and a Time for Building Up: Recasting Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe, 1914-1921
Benjamin Nathans (S)
University of Pennsylvania
Ella Darivoff Fellow
A "Hebrew Drama": The Individual, the Collective, and the Problem of
Crisis in Russian-Jewish History

Alyssa Quint (F)
Harvard University
Martin Gruss Fellow

The Origins of Modern Yiddish Culture; and Theatre and Theatricality in Nineteenth Century Russia
Moshe Rosman (S)
Bar-Ilan University
Herbert and Ellie Katz Distinguished Fellow

Jewish Women in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Gabriella Safran
Stanford University
Lucius N. Littauer Fellow
  The Russian Aesthetics of Jewish Identity: A Literary Biography of S. Ansky
Joshua Shanes (S)
University of Wisconsin
Martin Gruss Fellow
National Regeneration in the Diaspora: Nationalism, Politics and Jewish Identity in Late Habsburg Galicia, 1883-1914
Marcos Silber
Tel-Aviv University
Michael R. Steinhardt Fellow
The Struggle for Autonomy: The Jews of Lithuania During World War I
 
Adam Teller
University of Haifa
Nancy and Laurence Glick Teaching Fellow
Social and Cultural History of the Rabbinate in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
 
SHORT-TERM FELLOWS
Ada Rapoport Albert (April) University College London
Gershon Bacon (January)
Bar Ilan University
Jacob Barnai (January)
University of Haifa
 
Elchanan Reiner (February)
Tel Aviv University
 
ADJUNCT FELLOWS
Carol Avins   Michael Steinlauf
     
Batsheva Ben-Amos   Magda Teter
     
Gershon Hundert   Joshua Zimmerman
     
Samuel Kassow   Steven Zipperstein
     
Michael Stanislawski    
TEACHING FELLOWS  
 
Charles Manekin
University of Maryland
Erica Strauss Teaching Fellow