Rosenberg Senior Scholar

William Rosenberg was born in Czestochowa, Poland in 1929. The only survivor of his family of seven children, he was incarcerated in seven concentration camps. As president of the New Haven Farband and the New Haven survivors fellowship group, Willy was instrumental in the founding of the Holocaust Survivors Film Project (HSFP). He was a tireless advocate for the HSFP and later for the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

Current Fellows

Laura JockuschWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Dr. Jockusch is associate professor and holds the Albert Abramson Chair in Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. She wrote Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford UP 2012, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and co-winner of the Sybil Milton Book Prize); she edited Khurbn-Forshung: Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland (Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht 2021); co-edited (with Devin Pendas) Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4: Aftermath, Outcomes, and Repercussions (Cambridge University Press forthcoming), and (with Gabriel Finder) Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (Wayne State University 2015) and (with Andreas Kraft and Kim Wünschmann) Revenge, Retribution, Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation (The Hebrew University Magnes Press 2016).

Her current research explores Jewish conceptions of post-Holocaust justice; the trials of Stella Goldschlag (aka Kübler-Isaaksohn) in postwar Germany; and revenge during and after the Holocaust.

Hannah Pollin-GalayWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Dr. Pollin-Galay is Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at Tel Aviv University, where she is also head of the Jona Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture. Pollin-Galay researches and teaches primarily in the fields of Yiddish literature and Holocaust studies, and all the ways that these two fields intersect. Her first book, Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place and Holocaust Testimony (Yale 2018) asks how place and language shape Holocaust survivor testimony. Her second book, Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish (U Penn Press, 2024), explores the thousands of Yiddish words that were invented or reinvented during the Holocaust, and why they served as a potent means of testimony. Pollin-Galay has published articles in journals such as Holocaust and Genocide StudiesJewish Quarterly Review and Jewish Social Studies, among others. She is currently working on a translation project, focused on Yiddish ecopoems of the Holocaust.