Kiev Fellowship Winners Announced The Special Collections Research Center of the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library at The George Washington University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Kiev Judaica Collection Research Fellowships.
Dr. Jonathan Skolnik, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst is the first recipient of the newly created fellowship. Professor Skolnik will utilize the Kiev Judaica Collection as he develops the project "Jewish Modernism in Context: German, Hebrew, and Yiddish Writers in 1920s Berlin," focusing his Kiev Collection research on the role of German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler. Senior GWU History major Robin Janofsky is the recipient of the undergraduate research fellowship for her proposed project on the American Jewish community's relationship to Abraham Lincoln. Janofsky plans to explore collections of personal correspondence, graphic arts, and organizational records in the Kiev Judaica Collection in the development of her senior honors thesis. The I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection was established in 1996 by Dr. Ari and Phyllis Kiev with the donation of the private library of Dr. Kiev's father, Rabbi I. Edward Kiev (1905-1975), one of the preeminent Judaica librarians of the 20th century. Housed since 1998 in the Kiev Room of the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, the collection contains more than 28,000 volumes and supplementary collections of Jewish graphic art, archives, printed and recorded music, ephemera, artifacts and ritual objects. For more information visit http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC/collecting-areas/rare-books-and-maps-1/judaica Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
