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David Aaron
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Language, Holiness, and Identity: The Concept of l'shon haqodesh from the Late Biblical Era through the Closing of Talmudic Era Literatures
Oren Ableman
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
“Resistance to Rome in Late Second Temple Jewish Literature"
Jeffrey Abt
2015–16 Theme:
Secularization /Sacralization
“Religious Ceremonials / Museum Artifacts: Rethinking Jewish Ritual Objects”
Christine Achinger
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Constellations of alterity: conceptions of femininity and Jewishness in modern German and Austrian culture
Merav Alush-Levron
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"The Politics of Self-Representation in Contemporary Israeli Cinema and Television: Mizrahim Beyond the Construction of Loss and Subjection"
Joseph L. Angel
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
“The Architecture of Election: Temple Architecture and the Construction of Social Identities in Ancient Judaism"
Gil Anidjar
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"What's in a Frame?"
Michal Artzy
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Coastal Canaanite Influence on Israelite Cult
Karen Auerbach
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Jewish Publishers of Polish Literature: Integration, Language Choice, and Cultural Identifications (1850-1939)
Leora Auslander
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Strangers at Home: Jewish Parisians and Berliners in the Twentieth Century
Benjamin Baader
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Creating Self and Creating Community: Gender, Class, and Jewish Difference In German Jewish Family Letters and Diaries, 1813-1871
Gershon Bacon
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Politicization of the Hasidic Masses in Poland: The Case of Alexander (Aleksandrow) Hasidim, 1900-1930
Olena Bagno-Moldavski
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Aetiology of the FSU Jewish minorities' political culture in Israel, Germany and Ukraine
Shirly Bahar
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"In Formation: Visualizing the Racialization of the Middle Eastern Jew, 1882 - 1948"
Mira Balberg
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Blood for Thought: The Rabbinic Reinvention of Sacrifice in Its Roman and Early Christian Context”
Monique Balbuena
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The New Faces of Ladino in Latin America Today: Language Revival and National Identity
Anthony Bale
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Fear, Pleasure and the Medieval Jewish Image
Rafael Balulu
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"Thoughts about the Possibility Offered by the 'Metaverse' on Mizrahi History and Aesthetics"
Amir Aharon Banbaji
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
History of Hebrew Literary Criticism and Theory: The Haskala Period
Eitan Bar-Yosef
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Zionism, the British Empire, and the Making of Israeli Identity: Mimicry, Resistance, and Nostalgia”
Maya Barzilai
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Monstrous Borders: The Golem Legend and the Creation of Popular Culture
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures (Co-head Fellow)
Translation Beyond Zionism: Hebrew-German Literary Exchanges
Illil Baum
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
The Knowledge of Arabic among the Jews of the Crown of Aragon: Late Medieval Jewish Multilingualism as a Marker of an Elitist Culture
Murray Baumgarten
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Wrestling with the Angel: Civic Virtue and Modern Jewish Writing
Shlomo Berger
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
The Construction of a Cultural Artifact: Early Modern Yiddish Books and the Materializing of Text
Todd Berzon
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Holy Tongues: The Materiality of Language in the Religious World of Late Antiquity
Rivka Bilboim
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Language and Gender: The Case of the "Frecha"
Sara Blair
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
The View from Below: Photography and Urban Vision on the Lower East Side
Inbal Blau (Maimon)
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"Mizrahi Discourse on Traditional Justice - The Cases of Ringworm Treatment and Yemeni Children in Israel"
Efrat Bloom
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Walter Benjamin’s Secular Prayer”
Gabriele Boccaccini
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Diversity without Unity, Judaisms without Judaism? The Search for Rabbinic Origins as a Quest for the Elusive Core of Judaic Studies 2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity (Head Fellow) "Christian and Rabbinic Origins: An Intellectual History, from Daniel to the Mishnah"
Miriam Bodian
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
An Argument for Religious Toleration: The Inquisition Defense of a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jew
Catherine Bonesho
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Kings, Queens, and Caesars: Gentile Rulers in Early Jewish Literature"
Rick Bonnie
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Material Religion in Hasmonean-Roman Judaea: The Role of the Senses, Space, and Climate in Determining the Use of Synagogues and Miqva'ot
Ross Brann
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism
Naomi Brenner
2016-2017 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures
Comparative Approaches: Best-Sellers and the Boundaries of Hebrew Literature
Mia Bruch
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Theory and Practice: American Jews and the Science of Democracy
David Bunis
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Expressions of Emotion in Jewish Languages
Sean Burrus
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Image and Empire: Jewish Identities and Visual Arts under Rome
Justin Cammy
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters (Co-head Fellow)
The Yiddish Trace in Contemporary Jewish Fiction and Popular Culture
Andrew "Marc" Caplan
2010-11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Literature and German Culture in the Interwar Era
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Weight of an Epoch: Yiddish Modernism and German Modernity in the Weimar Era
Rodney Caruthers II
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Judaism and its Practice Beyond Ethiopian Rivers"
C. Mike Chin
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe
Kelley Coblentz Bautch
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Recovering Diverse Voices in 1 Maccabees"
Joshua Cole
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
A Riot in France: Violence and Colonial Reform in Algeria, 1919-1940
Monica Colominas Aparicio
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Sephardic Exceptionalism in the anti-Jewish Polemics of Medieval Iberian Muslims
Alanna Cooper
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Communities on the Margins: Re-Centering Jewish Studies
Lila Corwin-Berman
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Sprawling Judaism: Authenticity in the American Suburb
Deborah Dash Moore
Director, 2005-2015
2007-2008 Theme: Jews & the City (Head Fellow)
Jewish Photographers and American Cities
J.P. Dessel
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
In Search of Biblical Elders: Public Space and Rural Elites in Pre-Monarchic Israel
susi c dessel
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Words Heard in a Black Maria
Lois Dubin
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Rachele and Her Loves: Marriage and Divorce in a Revoluntionary Age
Jessica Dubow
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Thinking Outside the City Walls: Philosophy, Geography, and the Radicalism of Judaic Thought”
Todd Endelman
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews (Head Fellow)
Studying Jews
Liane Feldman
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Rewriting Sacrifice in Second Temple Judaism"
Sara Feldman
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“People of the Russian Book: Translating Pushkin into Jewish Languages”
Kirsten Fermaglich
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name
Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Life in Ashkenaz in the Early Modern Period: Proposing a Reconstruction
Lucia Finotto
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
The Jewish Translators of the Medieval Kingdom of Sicily
Deborah Forger
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
God's Embodiment in Jewish Antiquity
Jonathan Freedman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness (Head Fellow)
Borders of Jewishness
Gregg E. Gardner
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"The Archaeology of Diversity in Rural Palestine During the Second Temple Era"
Elliot Ginsburg
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Ve-yesh sod la-davar (The Word's the Thing): A Thick Description of Jewish Mystical Prayer Practices
Zvi Gitelman
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life (Head Fellow)
Politics and Perspectives on the Holocaust in the Wartime Soviet Union
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Under and After Empire: Jewish Public Life After Communism
Jennifer Glaser
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Exceptional Differences: Race, Chosennes, and the Postwar Jewish American Literary Imagination
Harvey Goldberg
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on Maghrib Border Processes
Judith Goldstein
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jews and Rosaries: Making Intercultural Objects in Contested Spaces
Alessandro Guetta
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
"A common tongue": Jewish translation from Hebrew in Early Modern Italy
Oren Gutfeld
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Material Culture in the Judean Shephelah during the Second Temple Period: Beit Loya as a Case Study
Chaya Halberstam
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Sacred Possessions: Material Culture in Early Jewish Texts
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Justice and Mercy Revisited: A Religious-Legal History of Judicial Impartiality
Liora Halperin
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Memories of Violence: The First Aliyah and its After-Images
Brian Hamm
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Being 'Portuguese' at the Diasporic Margins
Benjamin Hary
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The History of Judeo-Arabic
Yali Hashash
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"Mizrahi Feminism between Class, Religion, and Nationalism: A New Comparative Framework"
Marc Herman
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Andalusian Independence from Geonic Authority in its Maliki and Almohad Contexts
Yaakov Herskovitz
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Bilingualism Reimagined: Yiddish-Hebrew Literature in an Age of Monolingualism
Brian Horowitz
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Development of Russian Zionism as a Social Movement
Mostafa Hussein
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
The Refraction of Arabo-Islamic Civilization in Hebrew and Israeli Cultures
Noah Hysler-Rubin
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Planning Palestine: A Comprehensive Approach for the Study of Israel's Urban History
Maya Soifer Irish
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Sephardic Exceptionalism and the Castilian Jewish Elites
Adriana X. Jacobs
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures (Co-head Fellow)
Undead Poets Society: Hebrew Afterlives in Translations
Martin Jacobs
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Constantinople vs. Tenochtitlan: Imperial Expansion through a Post-Expulsion Sephardic Lens
Eve Jochnowitz
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
A kosherer top un a kosherer lefl: Yiddish Reactions to Modern Jewish Food Practices
Richard Kalmin
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Aramaic Targumim in Jewish and Christian Mesopotamia
Verena Kasper-Marienberg
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Seeking Imperial Justice- Accounts of Conflict in the 18th Century Frankfurt Judengasse
Alexandre Kedar
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
The Judaization of the Israeli Land Regime: 1948–2008
Shaul Kelner
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“Strategic Sacralization in American Jewish Politics: The Contradictions of Cultural Mobilization in the American Soviet Jewry Movement”
Dov-Ber Kerler
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
By the Wayside: Contemporary Yiddish Poetry and the post-postvernacular
Amy Kerner
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Fragile Inheritance: Yiddish in Buenos Aires, 1930-1970
Dorothy Kim
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Medieval Women and English Exoticism
Reuven Kiperwasser
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Rabbis Between Two Empires
Melissa Klapper
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Pre-World War II Activism
Gil Klein
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Consecrating the City: Rabbinic Ritual Topography in the Late Antique Galilean Towns
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“The Roman Architecture of Empire and the Establishment of Rabbinic Space”
Madeline Kochen
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Property and Justice in the Talmud
Oren Kosansky
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Judeo-Arabic, Translation, and the Languages of Jewish Morocco
Rachel Kranson
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Jewish Voices, Women's Choices: Jewish Involvement in American Abortion Debates, 1967-2000
Michal Kravel-Tovi
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Materializing the New Jewish Self: Material Culture in the Jewish Conversion Process
Ehud Krinis
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
'Galut' and 'Ghurba' -- Historical and Existential Exile in the Thought of Bahya Ibn Paquda and Judah Halevi
Miriamne Krummel
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew: In and Out of Time
Mikhail Krutikov
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Discourse of the Shtetl and the "Jewish Renaissance" in Eastern Europe
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empire (Head Fellow)
Spaces of Memory: Imagining a Soviet Past in Post-Soviet Russian Jewish Writing
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Urban Space in Jewish Literature(s)
Jack Kugelmass
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Traveling in Yiddish
Michael Langlois
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Pseudepigraphy Between Canonical and Non-Canonical Literature"
Kathryn Lavezzo
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Mapping Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Literature: A Cultural Geography of English Antisemitism
Marjorie Lehman
2013-14 Theme: Gender
The Gendered Rhetoric of Tractate Yoma
Scott L. Lerner
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
From Ghetto to Monumental Synagogue: Narrative and Jewish Identity in the Capitals of Risorgimento Italy
Mark Leuchter
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Scribal Refractions of Imperial Myth in Jewish Texts of the Persian Period"
Julian Levinson
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Metal. Granite. Uproar: Jewish Modernism in the Cauldron of New York City
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters (Co-head Fellow)
A Translation of Isaiah Spiegel’s flamen fun der erd (Flames from the Earth), an Autobiographical Novel of the Łódź Ghetto
Gal Levy
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"What Kind of Diversity Are We?": Reading Mizrahi from the Occident"
Lior Libman
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Culture: Comparative Approaches
"Jews in a Harness": The Socialist-Zionist Labor Movement and Hasidism
Tatjana Lichtenstein
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
A Life at Odds: The Private and Political World of a Prague Zionist
Michael Lowy
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
Secularization/ Sacralization in Jewish-German Culture: Kafka, Benjamin, Bloch, Fromm
Howard Lupovitch
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Toward a New Hermeneutic of Religious Reform: The Life and Legacy of Aron Chorin
Barbara Mann
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
The Meaning of Space: Between the Academy and Jewish Studies
Jessica Marglin
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
The Assarrafs Go to Court: Jews in the Moroccan Legal System during the Nineteenth Century
Evyatar Marienberg
2013-14 Theme: Gender
How Should Jews Do it? The (Hi)story of Traditional Jewish Sex Instruction
Roni Masel
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Disruptive Violence: The Gothic and the Grotesque in Hebrew and Yiddish
Devi Mays
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
“Reorienting Imperial Jews: Constantinople at the Crossroads of Jewish Identities”
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
The Sephardi Connection: Ottoman Jews, the Opium Trade, and the Aftereffects
of Empire
Ariel Mayse
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
Expanding the Boundaries of Holiness: Conceptions of the Sacred in Modern Hasidic Spirituality
Joshua Miller
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages (Co-head Fellow)
Jewish Language
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
“A race in fragments, almost completely scattered”: The Translational Networks of Jewish Latin America
Liron Mor
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"Intention: The Racialization of Truth and the Literality of the Other"
Regina Morantz-Sanchez
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Ghetto Girls and Reforming Men: Love, Inter-Marriage, Politics and the American Melting Pot, 1900-1930
Aviad Moreno
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
From Morocco, in Another Way: Aliyah and Other Jewish Migrations from Northern Morocco, 1860-2010
Alex Moshkin
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Migration and Translation: Contemporary Russian-Israeli Poetry
Eva Mroczek
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
“The Other David: Between the Tanach and the Palmach”
Harriet Murav
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Archive of Violence: The Literature of Abandonment and the Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
Rachel Rafael Neis
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Ancient Jewish Visual Culture
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity (Head Fellow)
The Reproduction of Species: Humans and Other Materials in Ancient Rabbinic "Biology"
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Designing Politics: Architecture, Nationalism and Judaism in Post-'67 Jerusalem
Anita Norich,
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages (Co-Head Fellow)
Jewish Languages
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Kadya Moldovsky: Fact and Fiction
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Women's Imaginative Prose in Yiddish
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Translation Matters: Women's Prose Writing in Yiddish
Avraham Novershtern
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Image of Yiddish in American Yiddish Discourse
Megan Nutzman
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Asclepius and Elijah: Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Vanessa Ochs
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Object Lessons
Avner Ofrath
2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
"A Language of One's Own: Writing Politically in Judeo-Arabic, c. 1860 - 1940"
Isaac Oliver
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Luke: Marginalized Jew in the Greco Roman Diaspora
Ranen Omer-Sherman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Jewish Levantine Identities in the Contemporary Memoir & Fiction
Aharon Oppenheimer
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
The History of the Jewish People from Bar Kokhva till the Moslem Conquest
S. J. Pearce
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
In the Taifa Kingdoms: The Medieval Poetics of Modern Nationalism
Daniel Picus
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Ink Sea, Parchment Sky: Reading Practices of Late Ancient Rabbis
Shachar Pinsker
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Specializing the Margins: The European Cities of Hebrew Modernism 1900-1930
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Urban Cafes, Gender and Modern Jewish Culture
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches (Head Fellow)
A Silent Language? Yiddish in Israel Literature
Benjamin Pollack
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Esotericism and Enlightenment: Salomon Maimon between Politics and Metaphysics
Hannah Pollin-Galay
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
My Foreign Mother Tongue: Khurbn Yiddish and the Cultural Contours of Trauma
Paul Reitter
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Clothes Make the German: Jewish Acculturation and the Practice of Everyday Life in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe
Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Toward a Cultural History of the Astrolabe in Jewish Cultures
Bryan Roby
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Blackness and the Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews: A Comparative History of the Mizrahi and African-American Experience
Na’ama Rokem
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
The Divided Horizon: German-Hebrew Bilingualism in the 20th Century
Eli Rosenblatt
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Enlightening the Skin: Yiddish Culture in the Black Atlantic
Laurence Roth
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Unpacking my Father's Bookstore: Collection, Commerce, Literature
Catherine Rottenberg
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Jews and Blacks in New York City
Gavin Schaffer
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Where is Home? Aliyah and British Jews since 1967
Michael Schlie
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and the End of Political Theology
Rachel Seelig
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Motherless Tongues: German-Hebrew Literary Exchange
Naomi Seidman
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Freud and/in Yiddish
Yael Sela
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Music, Myth, and Aesthetic Sensation in Moses Mendelssohn’s Translation Enterprise
Sasha Senderovich
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Translating the "Soviet Jew" Between Russia and America
Dan Shapiro
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Turkic-Karaite Biblical Translations
Shayna Sheinfeld
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity
"Diversity in Jewish Leadership in the First and Second Centuries CE"
Yael Shenker
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Representations of West Bank Settlements in the Fiction and Cinema of Israeli Religious Authors
Andrea Siegel
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
An Experimental Foray: Calendar for Mother and Child and Mother and Child Yearbook
Lisa Silverman
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Beyond Material Claims: Rhetorics of Restitution after the Holocaust
Nancy Sinkoff
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
'Last Witness': Lucy S. Dawidowics, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
Alexei Sivertsev
2014–15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Jews and the Roman Imperial Culture in Late Antiquity
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity "Semiotic Communities: Signs and the Construction of Jewish Group Identities in the Second Temple Period"
Andrew Sloin
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Pale Fire: The Jewish Revolution in White Russia, 1917-1929
Sammy Smooha
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: The Palestinian-Arab Minority as the Litmus Test
Scott Spector
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization (Head Fellow)
The ‘Secularization Question’: Germans, Jews, and the Historical Understanding of Modernity
Max Strassfeld
2013-14 Theme: Gender
Classically Queer: Eunuchs and Androgynes in Rabbinic Literature
Guy Stroumsa
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
The Secularized Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Nineteenth Century
Claude Stuczyniski
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Iberian Conversos: Victims, Agents, and Thinkers of Empire
Michael Swartz
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
The Economics of Ritual in Judaism in Late Antiquity
Vasileios Syros
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Visions of History and Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives
Ryan Szpiech
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern (Head Fellow)
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Sephardic Identity before and after 1391
Karolina Szymaniak
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Entangled Histories of Yiddish Polish Cultural Contacts in the First Half of the 20th Century (up to 1948)
Juan Manuel Tebes
2017-18 Theme: Jews and the Material in Antiquity
Fluid Cultural Boundaries in Idumaea and the Formation of Jewish and Idumaean Identitie
Jindrich Toman
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Bohemia’s Jews and Their Decentered Empire
M Adryael Tong
2021-22 Theme: Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity "Difference and Circumcision"
Anna Torres
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
Utopian Tongues: Jewish Anarchist Translation Practices
Ruth Tsoffar
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Cannibal Ideology: Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Colonialism in Hebrew Cultures
Yaron Tsur
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Language, Colonialism, and Nationalism - The Case of North African Jewry
Nick Underwood
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Plural Jewish Communities: Yiddish Culture and Jewish Migration in Post- Holocaust France
Veerle Vanden Daelen
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Experiences of Jewishness and Clustering in a City as Perceived by Jews and non-Jews; The City of Antwerp since WWII in Comparative Perspective
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Director, 2015-2021
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Border Jew: Between Empires
Jason vonEhrenkrook
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Jewish Statues: How Jews 'Used' Free-standing Sculpture in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Kenneth Wald
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Political Behavior of American Jewry
Herbert Weisberg
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Distinctive Jewish-American Vote
Kalman “Kal” Weiser
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
From Yidishe visnshaft to Yiddish Studies: Max Weinreich in America
Chava Weissler
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
Spirituality and Art in the Jewish Renewal Movement
Lenore Weitzman
2011–12 Theme: Jews and Political Life
The Politics of Jewish Divorce Law Reform: Agunah Activists in the US, Canada and Israe
Beth S. Wenger
2013-14 Theme: Gender (Convening Fellow)
Making American Jewish Men
Hana Wirth-Nesher
2010–11 Theme: Jewish Languages
Multilingual Jewish Writing: Hebrew-English Cross Scripts
2008–09 Theme: Studying Jews
Cross Scripts: Hebrew Letters, English Writing
Moshe Yagur
2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Who was a Sepharadi? A view from the Cairo Geniza
Deborah Yalen
2007–08 Theme: Jews and the City
Eradicating the Distinctions between City and Countryside: Jews, Urbanization and the Shtetl in Find-de-Siecle Russia and the Soviet Union
2014-15 Theme: Jews and Empires
Forging the Anti-Imperial Empire: Jews, Ethnographic Science, and the Soviet Family of Nations
Orian Zakai
2012-13 Theme: Borders of Jewishness
Hebrew Women, Their Others, Their Nation
Shayna Zamekanei
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
The Arabized Jewish Diaspora
Saul Zaritt
2019-20 Theme: Yiddish Matters
Yiddish, Translation, and Jewish Language Afterlives: A Taytsh Manifesto
Oded Zehavi
2009–10 Theme: The Culture of Jewish Objects
T'ka Beshofar (Sound the Great Shofar); the Unanswered Cry of the Shofar
Yael Zerubavel
2016-17 Theme: Israeli Histories, Societies and Cultures: Comparative Approaches
Biblical Reenactments: The Performance of Antiquity in Modern Israeli Culture
Genevieve Zubrzycki
2015–16 Theme: Secularization/ Sacralization
Resurrecting the Jew: Philosemitism, Pluralism, and Secularism in Contemporary Poland
Jason Zurawski
2020-21 Theme: Translating Jewish Cultures
The Reception of the Greek Translation of Hebrew Scriptures in the Hellenistic Diaspora
