Long-Term Research Fellowships for Senior Scholars at the Center for Jewish History

FAIN: RA-269824-20

Center for Jewish History (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Malgorzata Bakalarz Duverger (Project Director: August 2019 to May 2021)
Rachel Miller (Project Director: May 2021 to March 2023)
Miriam Mora (Project Director: March 2023 to May 2024)

12 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for one year and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The Center for Jewish History (the Center) is the world’s leading repository of archival sources on Jewish history. It is home to five partner organizations with over five miles of archival documents, 500,000 volumes, and thousands of artworks and objects stretching back 5,000 years. The NEH Fellowship for Senior Scholars--the highest tier in the Center’s fellowship program--supports high-level original research resulting in scholarship based on these collections. Since 2011, generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed the Center to host one outstanding Senior Scholar each year. Past NEH fellows have made significant discoveries and published numerous times. Continued NEH support would ensure that the Center can continue to offer a home to humanities scholars at the highest level. [edited by staff]

Associated Products

Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum (Book)
Title: Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum
Author: Jeffrey Shandler
Abstract: Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish-speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to their former homes and resuming their scholarly work there was no longer viable, they sought to address their profound sense of loss by continuing their work, under radically different circumstances, to document the European Jewish lives, places, and ways of living that were being destroyed. In pursuing this daunting agenda, they made a remarkable decision: they would create a museum to memorialize East European Jewry and educate American Jews about this legacy. YIVO scholars determinedly pursued this undertaking for several years, publicizing the initiative and collecting materials to exhibit. However, the Museum of the Homes of the Past was abandoned shortly after the war ended. With insight and clarity, Jeffrey Shandler draws upon the surviving archival sources to tell the story of the purpose, development, and ultimate fate of the Museum of the Homes of the Past. Homes of the Past explores this largely unknown episode of modern Jewish history and museum history and demonstrates that the project, even though it was never realized, marked a critical inflection point in the dynamic interrelations between Jews in America and Eastern Europe.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1427068268
Primary URL Description: Worldcat link
Secondary URL: https://iupress.org/9780253069993/homes-of-the-past/
Secondary URL Description: Indiana University Press link
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780253069993

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