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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ella Darivoff Fellowship

Research Topic

From Corporation to Nation: The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

The Uses of History: Jewish Orthodoxy and the Transmission of Tradition

Fellowship

2008–2009
Jews, Commerce, and Culture

Working to expose the shifting linkages between commerce and culture in Jewish life from medieval to modern times.

2002–2003
Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe

Mining the extraordinarily rich history and culture of East European Jewry.

1999–2000
Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists, Jews, and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe

Devoting an entire year of study to the subject of Christian Hebraism, especially in early modern Europe.

1995–1996
Learning and Literacy: The Transmission of Tradition and Knowledge From Antiquity to the Present

Looking at the relationship of oral and written modes of cultural transmission, the relative values of these modes in different Jewish cultural moments and locales, and the relationship of transmission to authority.

2011–2012
Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.

2013–2014
Constructing Borders and Crossing Boundaries: Social, Cultural, and Religious Change in Early Modern Jewish History

Investigating changes across the early modern Jewish world.