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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 2011-2012 fellows include:

  • Gershon Bacon
    Bar-Ilan University
    The Politicization of the Hasidic Masses in Poland: The Case of Alexander (Aleksandrow) Hasidim, 1900-1930
  • Olena Bagno-Moldavski
    Stanford University
    Aetiology of the Political Culture of Jews from the Former Soviet Union Now in Israel, Germany and Ukraine
  • Miriam Bodian
    University of Texis - Austin
    An Argument for Religious Toleration: The Inquisition Defense of a Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jew
  • Mia Bruch
    Stanford University
    Theory and Practice: American Jews and the Science of Democracy
  • Zvi Gitelman, Head Fellow
    University of Michigan
    Politics and Perspectives on the Holocaust in the Wartime Soviet Union
  • Kenneth Goldstein
    University of Wisconsin
    Measuring Public Attitudes in Israel
  • Brian Horowitz
    Tulane University
    The Development of Russian Zionism as a Social Movement
  • Melissa Klapper
    Rowan University
    Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Pre-World War II Activism
  • Benjamin Pollack
    Michigan State University
    Esotericism and Enlightenment: Salomon Maimon Between Politics and Metaphysics
  • Michael Schlie
    Indiana University
    Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and the End of Political Theology
  • Nancy Sinkoff
    Rutgers University
    "Last Witness": Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History
  • Andrew Sloin
    Earlham College
    Pale Fire: The Jewish Revolution in White Russia, 1917-1929
  • Sammy Smooha
    University of Haifa
    Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: The Palestinian-Arab Minority as the Litmus Test
  • Kenneth Wald
    University of Florida
    The Political Behavior of American Jewry
  • Herbert Weisberg
    Ohio State University
    The Distinctive Jewish-American Voter
  • Lenore Weitzman
    George Mason University
    The Politics of Jewish Divorce Law Reform: Agunah Activists in the US, Canada and Israel
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