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”
Anna Narinskaya, Author, curator, filmmaker and activist, “Jewishness in Soviet media (1960s–1980s)”
Uri Schreter, Harvard University, “Reverberations: Jewish Music in the LP Era”
Tamar Sella, University of North Texas, “Unsettled Sounds: The Critical Frame of Arab Jewish Musical Memory”
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”
