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Jewish Girl from Munich, A. Wichert

Fellows

The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies annually brings fellows to the University of Michigan for collaborative research and scholarship. The first group of fellows, welcomed from around the globe during the Institute’s inaugural year of 2007-08, includes:

  • Murray Baumgarten
    Professor of Literature
    University of California - Santa Cruz
    Wrestling with the Angel: Civic Virtue & Modern Jewish Writing

  • Lila Corwin Berman
    Assistant Professor of History, Religious Studies & Jewish Studies
    Pennsylvania State University
    Sprawling Judaism: Authenticity in the American Suburb

  • Sara Blair
    Professor of English & American Culture
    University of Michigan
    View from Below: Photography & Urban Vision of the Lower East Side

  • Deborah Dash Moore
    Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History & Judaic Studies
    University of Michigan
    Jewish Photographers & American Cities

  • Gil Klein
    Fellow
    Getty Research Institute
    Consecrating the City: Rabbinic Ritual Topography in Late Antique Galilean Towns

  • L. Scott Lerner
    Associate Professor of French & Italian
    Franklin & Marshall College
    From Ghetto to Monumental Synagogue: Narrative & Jewish Identity in the Capitals of Risorgimento, Italy

  • Julian Levinson
    Samuel Shetzer Associate Professor of American Jewish Studies
    University of Michigan
    Metal. Granite. Uproar: Jewish Modernism in the Cauldron of New York

  • Barbara Mann
    Associate Professor of Jewish Literature
    Jewish Theological Seminary
    The Meaning of Space: Between the Academy and Jewish Studies

  • Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
    Senior Lecturer of Architecture & Town Planning
    Israel Institute of Technology
    Designing Politics: Architecture, Nationalism & Judaism in Post '67 Jerusalem

  • Shachar Pinsker
    Assistant Professor of Hebrew & Jewish Cultural Studies
    University of Michigan
    Spatializing the Margins: The European Cities of Hebrew Modernism 1900-30

  • Catherine Rottenberg
    Lecturer in Gender Studies
    Ben-Gurion University
    Jews & Blacks in New York City

  • Yael Shenker
    Instructor of Hebrew Literature
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Representations of West Bank Settlements in Fiction & Cinema of Israeli Religious Authors

  • Veerle Vanden Daelen
    Academic Collaborator in History
    University of Antwerp (Belgium)
    Experiences of Jewishness & Clustering in a City as Perceived by Jews & non-Jews: The City of Antwerp since WWII in a Comparative Perspective

  • Deborah Yalen
    Post-Doctorate
    University of California-Berkeley
    Eradicating the Distinctions between the City and Countryside: Jews, Urbanization and the Shtetl in Fin-de-Siecle Russia & the Soviet Union
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