2025-26 Theme: Jews and Media
Led by Co-Head Fellows Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan) and Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Affiliations & Project Titles
Shachar Pinsker (Co-Head Fellow), University of Michigan, “Below the Line: Feuilletons, Jews, and Media”
Olga Gershenson (Co-Head Fellow), University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Judaism and Film.”
Nadya Bair, Hamilton College, “Myth Maker: Cornell Capa and the Reinvention of Documentary at the International Center of Photography (ICP)”
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Israeli Educational Television, 1966–1982: Broadcasting Israel in Transition”
Ayelet Brinn, Hartford University, “World War I, The Red Scare, and the Censorship of the American Yiddish Press”
Gilad Halpern, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, “Dateline Jerusalem”
Matthew Handelman, Michigan State University, “The Invention of Cultural Politics: German-Jewish Intellectuals in the Age of Mass Media”
Erica Lehrer, Concordia University, Montreal, “‘Post-Jewish’ Objects and Mnemonic Mediation in Contemporary Poland”
Julian Levinson, University of Michigan, “Mediating Jewish Comedy”
Jeremiah Lockwood, University of California, Las Angeles, “Melody Like a Confession: A Cultural History of the Cantorial Gramophone Era”
Anna Narinskaya, Author, curator, filmmaker and activist, “Jewishness in Soviet media (1960s–1980s)”
Tamar Sella, University of North Texas, “Unsettled Sounds: The Critical Frame of Arab Jewish Musical Memory”
Uri Schreter, Harvard University, “Reverberations: Jewish Music in the LP Era”
Sigal Yona, Ghent University, “The Longue Durée of the Eden Cinema in Tel Aviv”
Anat Zeltser, Sapir College, “The History of Jewish/Israeli images through the Herzliya Studios”
