Announcing the 2016-17 Frankel Institute Fellows
Head Fellow Shachar Pinsker (photo by Leisa Thompson)
This fall, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies will host a prestigious group of scholars who will gather around the theme “Israeli Histories, Societies, and Cultures: Comparative Approaches.” They will be led by Head Fellow Shachar Pinsker.
The 2016–17 Frankel fellows and their fields of research are:
Naomi Brenner, Ohio State University, “Best-Sellers and the Boundaries of Hebrew Literature”
Liora Halperin, University of Colorado-Boulder, “Memories of Violence: The First Aliyah and its After-Images”
Mostafa Hussein, Brandeis University, “The Refraction of Arabo-Islamic Civilization in Hebrew and Israeli Cultures”
Noah Hysler-Rubin, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, “Planning Palestine: A Comprehensive Approach for the Study of Israel’s Urban History”
Lior Libman, State University of New York-Binghamton, “ʽJews in a Harness’: The Socialist-Zionist Labor Movement and Hasidism”
Aviad Moreno, Ben-Gurion University, “From Morocco, in Another Way: Aliyah and Other Jewish Migrations from Northern Morocco, 1860–2010”
Shachar Pinsker, University of Michigan, “A Silent Language? Yiddish in Israeli Literature”
Bryan Roby, University of Manchester, “Blackness and the Double-Consciousness of Arab Jews: A Comparative History of the Mizrahi and African-American Experience”
Gavin Schaffer, University of Birmingham, “Where is Home? Aliyah and British Jews Since 1967”
Rachel Seelig, University of Chicago, “Motherless Tongues: German-Hebrew Literary Exchange”
Shayna Zamkanei, University of Chicago, “The Arabized Jewish Diaspora”
Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers University, “Biblical Reenactments: The Performance of Antiquity in Modern Israeli Culture”