Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Center for Jewish History

FAIN: RA-50144-14

Center for Jewish History (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Judith C. Siegel (Project Director: August 2013 to April 2016)
Christopher Barthel (Project Director: April 2016 to September 2017)
Melanie Meyers (Project Director: September 2017 to November 2017)
Judah Bernstein (Project Director: November 2017 to September 2018)
Malgorzata Bakalarz Duverger (Project Director: September 2018 to June 2024)

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

The Center for Jewish History ("the Center") seeks renewed support for its NEH Research Fellowship for Senior Scholars. The establishment of another three-year period of support will provide opportunities for scholars of high merit to conduct research using the archival and library collections at the Center, which document 1,000 years of modern Jewish history through more than 100 million documents; 500,000 books, periodicals and microfilms; and tens of thousands of audio recordings, films, photographs and other works of art. The renewed support of NEH Senior Scholars at the Center is integral to the continued development of its interdisciplinary community of scholars whose research, writing and other academic and professional activities enrich the institution's intellectual culture.

Associated Products

Dubnov's Wayward Son: Israel Sosis and the Legacy of Russian Jewish Historiography (Article)
Title: Dubnov's Wayward Son: Israel Sosis and the Legacy of Russian Jewish Historiography
Author: Elissa Bemporad
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

The Blood Libel and Its Wartime Permutations: Cannibalism in Soviet Lvov (Book Section)
Title: The Blood Libel and Its Wartime Permutations: Cannibalism in Soviet Lvov
Author: Elissa Bemporad
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Title: The Strange World of Ritual Murder: Culture, Politics, and Belief in Eastern Europe and Beyond

What Should We Collect? Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity (Book Section)
Title: What Should We Collect? Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity
Author: Elissa Bemporad
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2017
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Title: Going to the People: Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse

Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish (Book)
Title: Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish
Author: Naomi Seidman
Abstract: There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and suppressed traces of Jewishness in his thought. This book takes a different approach, turning its gaze not on Freud but rather on those who seek out his concealed Jewishness. What is it that propels the scholarly aim to show Freud in a Jewish light? Naomi Seidman explores attempts to "touch" Freud (and other famous Jews) through Jewish languages, seeking out his Hebrew name or evidence that he knew some Yiddish. Tracing a history of this drive to bring Freud into Jewish range, Seidman also charts Freud's responses to (and jokes about) this desire. More specifically, she reads the reception and translation of Freud in Hebrew and Yiddish as instances of the desire to touch, feel, "rescue," and connect with the famous Professor from Vienna.
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37384
Primary URL Description: Stanford University Press
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781503638563

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