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, 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...
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, 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...
In this lecture, Julie Dawson, a recipient of the 2022 Fred and Ellen Lewis/JDC Archives Fellowship takes a microhistorical approach to examine and illuminate the experience of Jewish survivors in Romania during the immediate postwar decades, using the recently...
Yair Wallach, recipient of the 2022 David and Ruth Musher/JDC Archives Fellowship, lectured on “Rethinking Ashkenazi History in the Modern Middle East: Early 20th Century Egypt and Palestine.” In this lecture, Yair Wallach discussed the ways in which Ashkenazim...