Rebecca Kobrin Lectures on JDC and the Power of Female Diplomacy: The Life and Leadership of Laura Margolis and Olga Feinberg, 1939-1949
In this lecture, Rebecca Kobrin, a recipient of the 2022 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship, examines the experiences of Laura Margolis and Olga Feinberg during the pivotal decade between 1939-1949 to demonstrate how the power of female diplomacy helped the...
Yurii Kaparulin Lectures on Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948)
Yurii Kaparulin, recipient of the 2023 Sorrell and Lorraine Chesin/JDC Archives Fellowship, gave his public lecture on Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948). The lecture focuses on the social history of the Jewish agrarian settlements of the...
Sarah Zarrow Lectures on the Joint and Women’s Vocational Education: Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls, 1920s Lwów
In this lecture, Sarah Zarrow, a recipient of the 2022 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship discusses the Female Vocational School of the Handicrafts Workshops for Jewish Girls founded in Lwów in 1919, in the wake of the Great War, with a subvention from the...
Julia Schulte-Werning Lectures on Tuberculosis, Jewish Organizations, and the State in Decolonizing Morocco
Julia Schulte-Werning, the recipient of the 2023 Bernard and Mollie Steuer/JDC Archives Fellowship, gave her public lecture on “A Sanatorium for the Future: Tuberculosis, Jewish Organizations, and the State in Decolonizing Morocco.” Schulte-Werning explored how in the...