2024 JDC Archives Fellows Announced

The JDC Archives is pleased to announce that it has awarded six new fellowships for 2024. JDC Archives Fellowships are awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent study, who wish to conduct research in the JDC Archives—either in New York or Jerusalem.

The following scholars have received 2024 JDC Archives Fellowships:

• Dr. Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University College London, is a recipient of the Fred and Ellen Lewis / JDC Archives Fellowship. Dr. Gilbert’s research project focuses on the Jewish refugees from Nazism who reached South Africa, Kenya, the Rhodesias, Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Mauritius in the late 1930s and 1940s.
• Johannes Glack, a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna, was awarded the Max and Cecil (Steuer) Chesin / JDC Archives Fellowship. Mr. Glack’s research focuses on Jewish DPs with health-related challenges between 1945 and 1963.
• Elena Hoffenberg, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago, is the recipient of the Nathan and Sarah Chesin / JDC Archives Fellowship. Ms. Hoffenberg will investigate how the JDC’s support for credit institutions in the Polish lands during the First World War and the interwar period relied upon notions of kinship and gender.
• Aleksandra Jakubczak, Chief Historian, Research Department, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, was awarded the Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin / JDC Archives Fellowship to research the daily lives of Jewish families on the Eastern home front during the Great War.
• Katarzyna Person, Head of the Academic Department at the Jewish Historical institute in Warsaw, was a recipient of the Fred and Ellen Lewis / JDC Archives Fellowship. Dr. Person is working on a social history of small ghettos in occupied Poland.
• Sasha Zborovsky, a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded the Ruth and David Musher / JDC Archives Fellowship. Ms. Zborovsky will investigate the emigration of Soviet Jews from the USSR in the post-Stalin era.

Read about the projects of former JDC Archives Fellows and watch their public lectures here. See our Fellowships and Grants page for further information on our fellowship opportunities.