Frankely Judaic: Explorations in Jewish Studies

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the fledgling State of Israel scrambled to accommodate a flood of Jewish immigrants from war-torn Europe and from the Middle East and North Africa. The Middle Eastern and North African Jews, who came to be known as Mizrahi, or Eastern, Jews, were seen as backwards and primitive by the Zionist establishment. Two events exemplify this attitude: the Yemenite Chi...

2022-23 Frankel Institute: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity Project Title: Mizrahim and the Local Politics of Ethnicity in Development Towns If you’ve ever visited Israel, you most likely spent some time in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, maybe also Haifa and Eilat. But chances are you didn’t go to places like Sderot, Ofakim, and Kiryat Shmona–development towns that are typically poorer and less glamor...

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Catherine Bonesho Project Title: Gentile Rulers in the Early Jewish Imagination

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge Diversity Fellow, Rodney Caruthers Project Title: Judaism and its Practice Beyond Rivers

2021-2022 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Alexei Sivertsev "Construction of Jewish Identities in 2nd Temple Period"

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Liane Feldman Project Title: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Judaism

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity M Tong Line 3: Project Title: "Circumcision and Bodily Discourse"

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Oren Ableman Project Title: Resistance to Rome in Second Temple Literature

2021-2022 Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Gregg E. Gardner Project Title: "Digging Up Judaism: Archaeology, Diversity, and Material Religion in the 2nd Temple Era"

2021-22 Frankel Institute Second Temple Judaism: The Challenge of Diversity Fellow, Mark Leuchter Project Title: So Let It Be Written: Persian Imperial Myth and the Formation of Early Jewish Textual Identity

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Lucia Finotto Project Title: Republic of Scholars: Jewish Translators in Medieval Sicily

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Maya Barzilai Project Title: Love and the Zionist Translation Project

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Alex Moshkin Project Title: Russian-Israeli Poetry

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Oren Kosansky Project Title: Jews, Alcohol, and Moroccan Mahia

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Roni Masel Project Title: How Jews Became Modern Readers

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Alessandro Guetta Project Title: "A Common Tongue": Jewish Translation from Hebrew in Early Modern Italy

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Anita Norich Project Title: Yiddish Women Writers

2020-21 Frankel Institute Translating Jewish Cultures Fellow, Naomi Seidman Project Title: Freud's Jewish Languages

2019-20 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Julian Levinson Project Title: Flames from the Earth

2019-20 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Hannah Pollin-Galay Project Title: Khurbn Yiddish: How the Holocaust Changed the Yiddish Language

2019-2020 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Harriet Murav Project Title: "Yiddish Literature of Abandonment"

2019-2020 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Yaakov Herskovitz Project Title: Self-Translation and the Nation

2019-20 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Nick Underwood Project Title: Yiddish Paris after the Holocaust

2019-20 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Saul Zaritt Project Title: "Of Trash and Translation: Rethinking Popular Yiddish Fiction"

2019-20 Frankel Institute Yiddish Matters Fellow, Eli Rosenblatt Project Title: Black Phrase, Yiddish Gaze: Translating America in Eastern Europe