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Mirror, 1945, Helen Levitt

Fellows

  • Michal Artzy
    University of Haifa
  • Leora Auslander
    University of Chicago
    “Strangers at Home: Jewish Parisians and Berliners in the Twentieth Century”
  • Shlomo Berger
    University of Amsterdam
    “The Construction of a Cultural Artifact: Early Modern Yiddish Books and the Materializing of Text”
  • J.P. Dessel
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    “In Search of Biblical Elders: Public Space and Rural Elites in Pre-Monarchic Israel”
  • Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
    Tel-Aviv University
    “Jewish Life in Ashkenaz in the Early Modern Period: Proposing a Reconstruction”
  • Judith Goldstein
    Vassar College
    “Jews and Rosaries: Making Intercultural Objects in Contested Spaces”
  • Oren Gutfeld
    University of Michigan
    “Jewish Material Culture in the Judean Shephelah during the Second Temple Period: Beit Loya as a Case Study”
  • Sheila Jelen
    University of Maryland - College Park
    “Photographing Eastern European Jewry: Popular Ethnography and the Post-Holocaust Anthological Imagination”
  • Jenna Weissman Joselit
    distinguished visitor, Princeton University
    “The View From the Gallery: Why Jewish Museums Matter”
  • Alexandre Kedar
    University of Haifa
    “The Judaization of the Israeli Land Regime: 1948–2008”
  • Michal Kravel-Tovi
    Hebrew University – PhD Candidate
    “Materializing the New Jewish Self: Material Culture in the Jewish Conversion Process”
  • Rachel Neis
    University of Michigan
    “Ancient Jewish Visual Culture”
  • Vanessa Ochs
    University of Virginia
    “Jewish Object Lessons”
  • Paul Reitter
    Ohio State University
    “Clothes Make the German: Jewish Acculturation and the Practice of Everyday Life in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe”
  • Josephina Rodriguez-Arribas
    Warburg Institute / University of London
    “Toward a Cultural History of the Astrolabe in Jewish Cultures”
  • David Stern
    University of Pennsylvania
    “Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book in History”
  • Jason vonEhrenkrook
    University of Michigan - PhD Candidate
    “Jewish Statues: How Jews ‘Used’ Free-standing Sculpture in Greco-Roman Antiquity”
  • Chava Weissler
    Lehigh University
    “Spirituality and Art in the Jewish Renewal Movement”

Frankel Institute

2111 Thayer Bldg.
University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Phone: 734-763-9047
Fax: 734-936-2186
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies