2025-2026 Max Weinreich Center Research Fellows
Below is a list of recipients of YIVO’s 2025-2026 faculty and graduate student fellowships:
Sophia Shoulson, Johns Hopkins University
Literary Communication and the Literary Imaginary in Modern Yiddish Fiction, 1863-1936
Fellowship in American Jewish Studies
(The Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Dora and Mayer Tendler Endowed Fellowship in Jewish Studies)
Leigh Alon, Johns Hopkins University
The Rise of Jewish American Hereditarian Thought from the Mid-Nineteenth into the Twenty-First Century
Fellowship in Baltic Jewish Studies
(The Abram and Fannie Gottlieb Immerman and Abraham Nathan and Bertha Daskal Weinstein Memorial Fellowship in Eastern European Jewish Studies, the Abraham and Rachela Melezin Memorial Fellowship and the Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship)
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Fellowship in East European Arts, Music, and Theater
(The Ruth and Joseph Kremen Memorial Fellowship)
Wojciech Tworek, University of Wroclaw
Hasidic popular music and entertainment in the first decades after the Holocaust
Fellowship in East European Jewish Literature
(The Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellowship and the Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship)
Julia Koifman, Freie Universität, Berlin
Literature and Literary Theory as Instruments of Yiddish-Soviet Nation-Building
Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies
(The Professor Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship and the Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship)
Elad Schlesinger, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Print, Tradition, and Transformation: East European Rabbinic Periodicals, 1850–1940
Fellowship in Polish Jewish Studies
(The Aleksander and Alicja Hertz Memorial Fellowship and the Samuel and Flora Weiss Research Fellowship)
Tomas Jankowski, Vilnius University
Dancing Modernity: Yiddish in the Popular Music of the Interwar Poland
Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
From Lublin to New York and Back: Yankev Glatshteyn’s Literary Topographies and Peregrinations