Modern Jewish-Argentine Literature: Reconsidering the Canons
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In 2013, the Posen Foundation initiated the Posen Society of Fellows, a competitive international fellowship, designed to support emerging scholars of Jewish Studies.
Each year, the Posen Foundation inducted six new fellows, whose research deals with modern Jewish history and culture, with fellows selected from around the world.
Fellows received a two-year grant worth $40,000 towards the completion of their doctoral dissertation and were invited to convene each summer to discuss their research and writing, and learn from an elite group of Jewish Studies scholars.
Since 2021 the program is closed.
Class of 2019-2021
Doctoral Candidates
Tamar Menashe, Columbia University
Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1500-1700
Caroline Kahlenberg, Harvard University
Hawkers and Housekeepers: Gender, Class, and Jewish-Arab Relations on Palestine’s Margins (1887-1948)
Matthew Johnson, University of Chicago
The Weak Joint: German-Yiddish Literature after 1900
Canan Bolel, University of Washington, Seattle
Constructions of Jewish Modernity and Marginality in Izmir, 1856-1914
Itamar Ben-Ami, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
The “Schmittian” Jews: Leo Strauss, Isaac Breuer, and the Foundations of Jewish Theopolitics of the State
Class of 2018-2020
Doctoral Candidates
Rephael Stern, Harvard University
The Making of a Postcolony: Legal and Economic Technocracy in Late British Mandate Palestine and the State of Israel, 1939-1967
Angelina Palmén, Oxford University
Liberating Labour? Jews, Women and Work in Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War.
Catherine Greer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Singing in the Anteroom to Hell: Memorializing Music in Theresienstadt
Daria Starikashkina, Giessen University
Broken Rings: Leningrad Jews in the Siege
Danny Luzon, University of California, Berkeley
Translational Encounters with Modernism: Jewish-American Multilingual Literature in the Age of Mass Migration
Aviv Derri, New York University
Credit, Debt, and the Politics of Favor: Non-Muslim Merchant-banking Families in Ottoman Damascus and its Hinterland, 1840-1890
Class of 2017-2019
Doctoral Candidates
Yael Segalovitz, University of California, Berkeley
New Criticism Int.: The Close Reader in the U.S., Israel and Brazil
Charles McDonald, New School for Social Research
Return to Sepharad: Jewish Revivalism and the Pragmatics of Inclusion in Spain
Zuzanna Krzemień, University College London
Salomon Dubno (1738-1813) and the Influence of East European Jews on the German Haskalah
Shai Tagner, Ben Gurion and Roma Tre Universities
The Evolution of the Israeli Asylum Regime (1948 – 2017)
Adi Nester, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Exile Bible: Language, Music, and Dispersion in the Works of German-Jewish Émigrés
Mia Laufer, Washington University, St. Louis
Le Goût Sémite: Art Collecting, Identity, and Antisemitism in Early Third Republic Paris, 1870-1914
Amy Kerner, Brown University
Heritage and Loss: The Fate of Yiddish in Buenos Aires, 1929-1961
Class of 2016-2018
Doctoral Candidates
Yuval Tal, Johns Hopkins University
The Ethnic Republic: The European Contours of the French Universal Idea and the Making of French Algeria, 1870-1919
Geraldine Gudefin, Brandeis University
Navigating the Civil and Religious Worlds: Jewish Immigrants & Marital Laws in France and the United States 1881-1939
Anne Perez, University of California, Davis
Attitudes toward conversion to and from Judaism in the Zionist movement and the State of Israel.
Hadas Fischer-Rosenberg. Tel Aviv University
Jewish Life in a Colonial Home Front: The Yishuv and British Rule in Wartime Palestine, 1939- 1945
Chris Silver. University of California, Los Angeles
Of Harmony and Discord: Jews and North African Music in the Twentieth Century
Adrien Smith, Stanford University
Yiddish Russian: A People’s History of Language and Literature in the Soviet Union.
Class of 2015-2017
Doctoral Candidates
Yemima Cohen Aharoni, PhD candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Commemorating the Temple in Heritage Sites around the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Noëmie Duhaut, PhD candidate, University College London
The Europeanisation of French Jews: French Jewish perceptions of Jews in Southeast Europe, 1840 to 1900
Marina Zilbergerts, PhD candidate, Stanford University
Rabbinic Textuality and the Rise of Secular Jewish Literatures in Imperial Russia
Noga Bar-Or Bing, PhD candidate, Ben Gurion University
Contemporary Hassidism: From Image to Reality. The Slonim Hassidism-test Case
Michael Casper, PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
The Creation of a National Jewish Culture in Interwar Lithuania
Anna Elena Torres, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
With an Unbuttoned Shirt (“Mit a Tseshpilyet Hemd”): Anarchist Modernism in Yiddish Literature
Class of 2014-2016
Doctoral Candidates
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, PhD candidate, Paris-Sorbonne University
The Role of Women’s Song in the Transmission of Jewish Identity in Northern Morocco
Sebastian Musch, PhD candidate, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
Jewish Responses to the Influx of Eastern wisdom into German Thought during the Wilhelmine Era and the Weimar Republic
Hadar Feldman Samet, PhD candidate, the Hebrew University
The Hymns of the Sabbatean “Ma’aminim” in their Ottoman Context
Alma Heckman, PhD candidate, University of California, Los Angeles
Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1945-1975
Alec Burko, PhD candidate, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
Saving Yiddish: Yiddish Studies and the Language Sciences in America, 1940-1970
Ofer Dynes, PhD candidate, Harvard University
Jewish Culture and the Logic of the State: 1772-1848
Fiction Writers
Elhanan Nir
Kim Brooks
Class of 2013-2015
Doctoral Candidates
Sunny Yudkoff, PhD candidate, Harvard University
“Let it be Consumption!”: Modern Jewish Writing and the Literary Capital of Tuberculosis
Gil Rubin, PhD candidate, Columbia University
After Europe: The Transformation of Jewish Politics in World War II
Sarah Frances Levin, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Narrative Encounters of Muslims and Jews in Contemporary Rural Morocco
Tally Gur, PhD candidate, Haifa University
“In-Between” — Jewish Studies in Post WWII Germany 1960–2009
Wojciech Tworek, PhD candidate, University College London
The Experience of Time in the Writings of R. Shneur Zalman of Liady
Fredrik Meiton, PhD candidate, New York University
The Electrification of Palestine, 1917-1948
Elizabeth Imber, PhD candidate, The Johns Hopkins University
Jewish Political Lives at the End of Empire: Zionism, Nationalism, and British Imperialism in India, South Africa, and Palestine,
Rivka Brot, PhD candidate, Tel Aviv University
Law and Community: Trials of Jewish Collaborators at Displaced Camps in Germany and in The State of Israel
Fiction Writers
Lea Klibanoff
