2004-2005 Program
MODERN JEWISH LITERATURES:
LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, WRITING

  Name
  Area of Research

Olga Borovaya (F)
Moscow State University for the Humanities
Primo Levi Fellowship


New Forms of Ladino Cultural Production in the Ottoman Empire: 19th-20th Centuries



Stephan Braese (F)
University of Bremen
Martin Gruss Fellowship


German as a Jewish Language: German Sprachkultur of European Jews


 

Marc Caplan
Indiana University, Bloomington
Betty and Morris Shuch Term Fellowship


Monological Mosaics: The Problem of Narrative Form in the Fiction of Sholem Aleichem, Y.L. Peretz, and Der Nister



 

Bryan Cheyette (S)
University of Southampton, UK
Michael R. Steinhardt Term Fellowship


Diasporas of the Mind: A Critical History of British-Jewish Literature


 
 

Nurith Gertz (F)
Tel Aviv University, The Open University
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship


Jewish Historical Memory in Modern Hebrew Literature


 

Amelia Glaser (S)
Stanford University
Moses Aaron Dropsie Term Fellowship

  To Market: Jewish-Christian Exchange in East European Literatures


 

Nili Gold (S)
University of Pennsylvania
Ella Darivoff Fellowship

 

Inside the Apple: A Comprehensive Reading of Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry



 

Kathryn Hellerstein (S)
University of Pennsylvania
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship

  A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish


 

Sheila Jelen (F)
University of Maryland
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship


Intimations of Difference: Qualified Canonization
and the Hebrew Fiction of Dvora Baron


 

Michael Kramer (S)
Bar-Ilan University
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship

  The Art of Assimilation in Jewish American Thought and Writing Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe During the High Middle Ages


 
Scott Lerner (F)
Franklin & Marshall College
Moses Aaron Dropsie Term Fellowship
  After Exile: Narrative and Jewish Experience in Modern France


 

Alan Mintz
Jewish Theological Seminary/NY
Michael R. Steinhardt Term Fellowship

  A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry


 
  Gideon Nevo
Ben-Gurion University
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship

Natan Alterman’s Journalistic Poetry


 
Anita Norich
University of Michigan
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship

Trading Places: Translating Yiddish and Yiddishism in America


 
Alan Rosen
Michlala College, Israel
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship

Evidence of Trauma: David Boder and Writing the History of Holocaust Testimony


 
Laurence Roth (F)
Susquehanna University
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship
  American Jewish Popular Literatures: Narrative and Kosher Hybridity


 
Maurice Samuels (S)
University of Pennsylvania
Martin Gruss Fellowship

Metaphors of Modernity: Jews in French Literature, 1830-1870


 
Anita Shapira
Tel-Aviv University
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship
Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship
  Yosef Hayyim Brenner: A Biography


 

Deborah Starr
Cornell University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship

  Jewish Literature and the Cultural Imaginaries of Cosmopolitan Egypt


 
Nadia Valman (F)
University of Southampton, UK
Selma Ruben Term Fellowship
  East End/Eastern Europe: Ghetto Fiction in Fin de Siecle England


 
Liliane Weissberg (F)
University of Pennsylvania
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship
  Heroines and Pariahs: German-Jewish Women
Writing at the Turn of the 19th Century


 
  Short Term Fellows    
 
Arnold Band
University of California, Los Angeles

 

   
  Stuart Schoffman
Journalist, writer