2023-24 Theme: Jewish Visual Cultures
Led by Co-Head Fellows Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan) and Richard Cohen (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
Affiliation & Project Titles
Jeffrey Abt
Wayne State University
The Indigeneity of Heterogeneity: An Exploration of Visual Languages in the
History of Judaica
Inka Bertz
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Entry of Jews into the Artistic Professions (1770-1870)
Zoya Brumberg-Kraus
University of Texas at Austin
From Gold Mountain to Tinseltown: Ethnic Identity in California’s Architectural
Vernacular
Irit Carmon Popper
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion IIT, Haifa; Departement of Art
History, Haifa University, Haifa
Past Imperfect: Contemporary Art Versus Heritage in Historic Sites in Israel - A
New Comparative Framework
Julia Phillips Cohen
Vanderbilt University
Tastemakers: How a Forgotten Group of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa Shaped
Modern European Culture
Richard Cohen
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Revisting Jewish Icons in Modern Culture and History
Deborah Dash Moore
University of Michigan
Camera as a Passport
Debora Kantor
University of Buenos Aires
Israel in Jewish Diaspora non-fiction film
Louis Kaplan
University of Toronto
Jewish Photographic Humor in Dark Times: Reflections on Visual First Responders to
the Third Reich
Tamar Kay
SCE School Architecture, Israel
3938 Chene Street (Research for TV Series)
Vladimir Levin
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Muskeljudentum and Lachrymose Prayer: How Jewish Historians Constructed Fortress Synagogues
Adam Lowenstein
University of Pittsburgh
The Jewish Horror Film: Taboo and Redemption
Catherine Soussloff
University of British Columbia and University of California, Santa Cruz
Shadows of Diaspora: Material Culture at the Crossroads of Islamic Art and Jewish
History
Roni Tzoreff
Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Israeli Art in the Age of 'Multiculturalism': The Exhibitions for Israel’s 50th
Independence Day
