Cohort VI is our first cohort with both Ph.D. and Postdoctoral candidates. Istvan Pal Adam, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Bristol, UK A native Hungarian, Mr. Adam’s research incorporates files of a post-war denazifying process, testimonies, autobiographical sources and contemporary journals to show how an otherwise insignificant group of ordinary Hungarians became intermediaries between…
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The Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies welcomes applications from PhD and Post-Doc candidates from around the world for funding for the September 2025-August 2026 academic year. The application portal will open on Thursday, SEPTEMBER 19, 2024. All application material must be submitted into the Fluxx portal system (see below) no later than: Friday, JANUARY 10,…
Kagan Fellowship Advisory Committee Members: Steven T. Katz, PhD Chairman Former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University Professor of Religion Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Boston University Karel Berkhoff, PhD Senior Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Royal Netherlands Academy…
Professor David Cesarani – Royal Holloway, University of London Dr. David Silberklang – Yad Vashem Fellows in the Media Cohort V Fellow Laura Brade awarded Fulbright: The Daily Tar Heel 4/2/12 Cohort V Fellow Robert Braun’s blog Cohort III Fellow Ella Florsheim discussed Yiddish Culture at Hebrew University in 2009 Cohort III Fellow Erin Leib…
Meet the Fellows… Susanne Barth, Ph.D. candidate, Carl-von-Ossietzky-University of Oldenburg, Germany Ms. Barth is working on a dissertation project called “The Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG and the Auschwitz Subcamp of Blechhammer, 1939-1945.” Blechhammer was a large complex of labour camps belonging to the synfuel plant Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke AG, established in 1939-1940 in Upper Silesia. Nearly 50,000…
Cohort I Mr. Hershkowitz writes, “My main area of research, rabbinic theological and sociological responses to the Shoah, has been reviewed (by Greenberg, Schindler, Polen, Farbstein, etc.), yet I feel it has not been appreciated enough by theological and moral researchers of the Shoah. Rarely can one find a rabbinic outlook cited as a legitimate…
Claims Conference Kagan Fellowships are available for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates around the world conducting Holocaust-related research. Each year, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) offers fellowships for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates around the world conducting newly uncovered archival Holocaust research. Through the Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the…