Space, Society, and Solar Panels in Israel
How do energy resources affect Middle Eastern communities? Grad Fellow Esra Bakkalbasioglu offers her thoughts.
From the American Midwest to the Jewish-Soviet Crossroads
How Graduate Fellow Cyrus Rodgers found his way from a Midwest childhood to the complex work of Jewish-Soviet writers like Isaac Babel.
Secular? Moderate? Middle Class? Not Quite
Graduate student Anat Goldman questions the inclusivity of Israel's Yesh Atid party and the meaning of Ruth Calderon's Knesset speech.
Arkady Raikin & the Politics of Jewish Comedy
What can the career of a Russian theater legend teach us about Soviet Jewish identity in the period of Israel's establishment?
Jews in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s-1940s
Cinema is a visual document of the transformation of attitudes towards Jews in the Soviet Union.
Migration stories: Why I study asylum seekers in Israel
PhD student and scholarship winner Yoav Duman explains how his personal history led to an interest in immigration studies.