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2009–2010 Program
SECULARISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Name
 
Area of Research


Annette Aronowicz
Franklin and Marshall College
Martin Gruss Fellowship
Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship

The Secularism of a Yiddish Communist: Haim Sloves


Michal Ben-Horin
University of Florida
Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship
 
New Music and Jewish Secularization


Yael Feldman (F)
New York University
Selma Ruben Fellowship
 
The Contested Near-Sacrifice: Rewriting Isaac in Tel-Aviv


Jonathan Gribetz
Columbia University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship
 
Religion, Religious Reform and Secularism in the Nationalisms of Late Ottoman Palestine


Alexander Joskowicz (S)
Vanderbilt University
Albert J. Wood Fellowship
 
Anticlericalism and the Birth of Jewish Secularism in Germany and France, 1783-1905


Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (S)
Ben-Gurion University
Samuel T. Lachs Fellowship
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship
 
Secularism and Orientalism from a Jewish Perspective


Ethan Katz
University of Cincinnati
Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellowship
 
Jews and Muslims in France: Conflicting Identities and Republican Culture in the 20th Century


Eva Lezzi
University of Potsdam
Primo Levi Fellowship
 
19th Century Civil Marriage & Intermarriage: Within the Contexts of Secularization and Neo-Orthodoxy


Rachel Manekin (S)
University of Maryland
Rebell Family Fellowship
 
The Struggle of Galician Maskilm against Religious Enthusiasm: The Roots of Secularization?


David Myers
University of California, L.A.
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship
 
An American Shtetl: Politics and Piety in Kiryas Joel, New York


Ilana Pardes (F)
Hebrew University
Golub Family Fellowship
 
The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture: Agnon's Somnambulist Lovers


Rachel Rojanski
University of Haifa
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship
 
Secular Jews and their Shulkhan Arukh: Religion and the Secularization of American Jewry, 1881-1950


Andrea Schatz (F)
King's College London
Ella Darivoff Fellowship
 
Fragments of Visibility: Religion, Culture, and the "Orient" in Western Ashkenaz, 1700-1840


Christoph Schulte
University of Potsdam
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

 
Jewish Philosophy of History and Messianism


Daniel Schwartz (F)
George Washington University
Louis and Bessie Stern Fellowship
 
The First Secular Jew: Spinoza and the Making of an Image


Galili Shahar
University of Florida
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship
 
The Un-Sacred Language: Metaphysics of the New Hebrew and the Dialectic Secularization


Scott Ury (F)
Tel-Aviv University
Weiner Family Fellowship
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship
 
Individual and Community in Lodz, Odessa and Warsaw, 1861-1914


Yael Zerubavel
Rutgers University
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship
 
Out of Time: Remembering the "Bygone" in Israeli Culture


 

Adjunct Fellows

 

 
 
 
Arye Edrei
Tel-Aviv University
 
Carlos Fraenkel
McGill University
 
Jonathan Karp
SUNY, Binghamton
 
Nomi Stolzenberg
University of Southern California
 
Larry Silver
University of Pennsylvania
 
Michael Steinlauf

Gratz College
 
Adam Teller
University of Haifa
 
Damon Linker

University of Pennsylvania
 

 

Short Term Fellows

 

 
 
 
Michael Brenner

University of Munich
 
Shmuel Feiner

Bar-Ilan University
 
Maurice Kriegel
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/Paris
 
Vivian Liska
University of Antwerp
 
Shira Wolosky

Hebrew University