Ella Florsheim

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Dr. Ella Florsheim, a scholar of Jewish history and Yiddish, focused her PhD research on the revival of Yiddish culture in Displaced Persons camps post-WWII, exploring its role in the survivors’ rehabilitation through literature, journalism, and theater. Dr. Florsheim’s work emphasizes how Yiddish contributed to the rebuilding of Jewish communal life after the Holocaust.

AREAS OF STUDY DURING FELLOWSHIP:

Dr. Ella Florsheim is Editor-in-Chief of Yad Vashem Publications. She completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her study, Words Reaching for Life: Yiddish Culture in the Displaced Persons Camps, was published in Hebrew in 2020 by The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and Yad Vashem Publications. Dr. Florsheim’s topics of research are the She’erit Hapletah and the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany, and Yiddish culture after the Holocaust. 

PhD Institution: Hebrew University

Research Topic during the Fellowship: The Revival of Yiddish Culture in the DP Camps in Germany through the Prism of Holocaust Survivors’ Newspapers

Current Position: Editor in Chief, Yad Vashem Publications