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2025 AJS Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants Recipients

JEFFREY G. AMSHALEM
Independent Scholar
“Shekhinah as Redemption Incarnate: Gender, Immanence, and Soteriology in the Kabbalah”

NICOLETTE VAN DEN BOGERD
Indiana University
“The Sonic Spaces of Amsterdam's Holocaust Museums and Monuments”

ANGELA ROSKOP ERISMAN
Independent Scholar/Angela Roskop Erisman Editorial
“Those Who Grasp It Will Flourish: Wisdom, Torah, and Survival in the Wilderness”

MICHÈLE FORNHOFF-LEVITT
Sorbonne Université / Université libre de Bruxelles
“Behind the Curtain: A Journey into Vilnius Yiddish Theatre Archives”

JACQUELINE LAZNOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“A Gender Perspective on Antisemitism and Its Impact on Argentina's Jewish Community Throughout the Long 20th Century”

KLARA NASZKOWSKA
Montclair State University
“Between Silence, Memory, and Postmemory: The Accounts of Shoah and Migration of the Polish Jewish Women Psychoanalysts in the United States”

AMANDA SHUBERT
University of Wisconsin–Madison
“Baghdadi Jews in British India”

SARI J. SIEGEL
Visiting Scholar at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
“Healing after the Holocaust: Jewish DP-Physicians and the Provision of Medical Care to Fellow Survivors in Germany, 1945–1950”

BEATA SZYMKÓW
Independent Scholar
“Judeo-Bolshevism as Technology of Policing: Civil Rights in the Polish Republic, 1936”

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2024 AJS Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholar Research Grants Recipients

Abby Gondek
“The Women Behind Morgenthau: Gendered Power Networks and the U.S. War Refugee Board (1940s–50s)”

Sandra Gruner-Domic
“Jewish Migration to Bolivia during the Holocaust: Post-colonial Immigration, Race Relations, and Nationalism”

Philip Keisman
‘“Simply Tell Us of News and Wonders and We Will Listen:’ The Editor's Role between Information Conduit and Creative Hand”

Emily Kopley
“The Life and Work of Berta R. Golahny”

Martina Mampieri
“Life in Ink: The Journey of a Refugee Bibliophile from Renaissance Italy to Postwar America”

Elly Moseson
“Jewish Magic in Early Modern Europe”

Irina Nicorici
“Uneasy Refuge: Romanian Jews and the Question of Soviet Citizenship, 1934–1948”

Shiri Zuckerstatter
“In-Between the Lines: The (Covert) Hebrew Letters of Modern Jewish American Literature”

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