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Fellows

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”