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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 2009-10 fellows include:

  • 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
    George Washington 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
    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-Siecle Central Europe
  • Josefina 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
    Jewish Statues: How Jews 'Used' Freestanding Sculpture in Greco-Roman Antiquity
  • Chava Weissler
    Lehigh University
    Spirituality and Art in the Jewish Renewal Movement
  • Oded Zehavi
    University of Haifa
    T'ka Beshofar (Sound the Great Shofar): The Unanswered Cry of the Shofar
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