Public Program: Shakespeare and Sacred Texts: A Midsummer Retreat
Lead Applicant: Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsors: Rabbi Marcia Tilchin and the Jewish Collaborative of Orange County;
Academy for Judaic, Christian, and Islamic Studies
Public Program: On the Road to Zion by Sholem Asch: A World Premiere Radio Drama and Roundtable Discussion on Polish Jewry
Lead Applicant: Lisa Newman, Director of Public Programs, Yiddish Book Center
Co-sponsors: Congress for Jewish Culture
and The Faux Real Theatre Company
Public Program: Indecent
Lead Applicant: Joel Berkowitz, Professor of Foreign Languages & Literature and Director, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Co-sponsors: Jewish Museum Milwaukee,
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Tapestry Program of the Harry and Rose Samson Jewish Community Center, UWM LGBT Studies Program, and Yiddish Book Center
Public Program: Global Day of Jewish Learning: Jewish Women Breaking Boundaries
Lead Applicant: Matthew Kraus, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Director, Hebrew Program, University of Cincinnati
Co-sponsors: Mayerson
Jewish Community Center and Women Writing for a Change
Public Program: Medieval Afternoon
Lead Applicant: Miriamne Krummel, Professor of English, University of Dayton
Co-sponsors: Dayton Metro Library, Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, and Beth Abraham Synagogue
Public Program: “The Jewish Language Project Presents a Multimedia Event: Passover around the World”
Lead Applicant: Sarah Benor, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)
and Courtesy Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California
Co-sponsors: Pico Union Project, USC Casden Institute
Public Program: “Celebrating the Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg”
Lead Applicant: Paula Sanders, Director
of the Boniuk Institute and Professor of History, Rice University
Co-sponsors: Da Camera, Holocaust Museum Houston
Public Program: “Letters to Erich: Family Disruption and Holocaust Memory”
Lead
Applicant: Nancy Sinkoff, Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University
Co-sponsors: New Brunswick Jazz Project, New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
