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 The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Announces their Fellows for 2005-2006 Founded in 1947 by Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), The Marcus Center contains one of the largest cataloged collections of documentary material relating to the study of the American Jewish experience.Since 1976 more than 400 scholars from over 20 countries have been named Marcus Center Fellows. Marcus Center Fellowships are awarded to outstanding scholars and advanced graduate students working in the field of American Jewish history. Marcus Center Fellows are required to spend one month of residency in Cincinnati, utilizing the AJA's rich collections, together with the holdings of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Klau Library as well as the other academic resources available at the College-Institute's Cincinnati campus. Francesca Y. Albertini Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellowship The Influences of Orthodox German Judaism on the American Rabbinical Movement at the Beginning of the 20th Century July 19 - August 8, 2005 March 1 - March 15, 2006 Michael Beizer Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rabbi Harold D. Hahn Memorial Fellowship The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Policy in Soviet Russia During the Interwar Period January 17 - February 14, 2006 Cristiana Facchini Bonavita Universitá degli Studi di Bologna Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellowship From Germany to America: Cultural Translation of Reform Judaism (1885-1904) March 1 - March 29, 2006 Jonathan Golden Brandeis University Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship 'In Order to Form a More Perfect Union': The Role of the Reform Movement in the Synagogue Council of America July 18 - August 12, 2005 Magdalena Gora Institute for European Studies Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellowship The American Jewish Community and Poland Since 1945 March 1 - March 31, 2006 Glen A. Harris University of North Carolina at Wilmington Rabbi Joachim Prinz Memorial Fellowship Intellectual Struggles Between Blacks and Jews from the 1940s to the 1960s: A Prelude to the Ocean Hill/Brownsville Conflict July 5 - July 29, 2005 Emily A. Katz Jewish Theological Seminary of America Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship Israeli Culture in the Reform Movement, 1948-1967 August 1 - August 12, 2005 October 31 - November 11, 2005 Daniel Mandel The Middle East Forum Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship The Outsider: Maurice Samuel January 17 - February 11, 2006 Maddalena Marinari University of Kansas Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship Challenging Restriction and Confronting Dual Loyalty: Eastern European Jews and the Quota Acts December 1 - December 15, 2005 May 12 - May 26, 2006 Adam Mendelsohn Brandeis University Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship 'To the Extreme Side of the Habitable Globe': The Emergence of the English Language Diaspora in the mid-19th Century April 24 - May 26, 2006 Laura Rosenzweig University of California, Santa Cruz The Starkoff Fellowship American Jewish Response to Domestic Anti-Semitism, 1934-1945 March 20 - March 31, 2006 April 24 - May 5, 2006 Valerie S. Thaler Yale University The Joseph and Eva R. Dave Fellowship The Delicate Balance: Zionism and Israel in Postwar American Jewish Identity October 31 - November 11, 2005 Susanne Weidemann Brown University Loewenstein-Weiner Fellowship The World Jewish Congress and the Displaced Persons Crisis in Shanghai During the 1940s and 1950s January 17 - February 17, 2006 Sherry Zander Congregation Emanu-El (Dallas, Texas) The Theodore S. Levy Tribute Fellowship Synagogues in Small Places: Touchstones of Jewish Life in America November 28 - December 11, 2005 January 30 - February 10, 2006 |
