Fellowships

Marianne HirschWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. She writes about the transmission of memories of violence across generations, combining feminist theory with memory studies in global perspective. She is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012) and the co-edited volume Women Mobilizing Memory (2019).  She is working on a book about reparative memory.

Together with Leo Spitzer, Hirsch has also co-authored two books: Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020).

Leo SpitzerWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Leo Spitzer is Vernon Professor of History Emeritus and Research Professor at Dartmouth College. He writes about responses to imperialism, Jewish refugee memory, and traumatic witnessing and its transmission. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies. His books include Lives in Between: Assimilation, Marginality, Exclusion in the Era of Emancipation (1989) and Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism (1998). He is also the editor of Arthur Kessler: A Doctor’s Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust (2024) and is currently writing about entjudung in Rechnitz in 1938: ethnic cleansing in a small Austrian town where his father was born and parental family lived.

Together with Marianne Hirsch, Spitzer has co-authored two books: Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference (2020).

Annetter WieviorkaWilliam Rosenberg Senior Scholar

Annette Wieviorka is a historian, honorary research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), vice president of the Higher Council of Archives and of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah. She chaired the association Témoignages pour mémoire, the French affiliate of the Fortunoff Video Archives. She was a member of the Study Mission on the Spoliation of the property of the Jews of France, known as the Mattéoli Mission. The author of numerous works, including Déportation et génocide. Entre la mémoire et l’oubli (1992, reprinted 2025); L’Ere du témoin (1998, translated into American by Jared Stark under the title The Era of the Witness); Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille (1999, translated into twenty languages including English under the title Auschwitz Explained to my Child). Her latest work Itinérances (2025) is a collection of articles and a reflection on nearly half a century of research.

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 Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review and Jewish Social Studies, among others. She is currently working on a translation project, focused on Yiddish ecopoems of the Holocaust.