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Lynne Avadenka, 2008
Lynne Avadenka was the inaugural HBI artist-in-residence. Avadenka's work boldly transformed the Kniznick Gallery’s unique architecture into a work of art. Painting, drawing and assemblage created an environment that opened up and revealed layers visually, as a book does conceptually. “A Thousand and One Inventions” expanded on the themes in Avadenka’s limited edition artist’s book, “By A Thread.” Created in 2004 with a grant from the HBI, the book imagines a conversation between Queen Esther, the heroine of Purim, and Scheherazade, the teller of a thousand and one tales. Both women spoke up when they could have remained silent, and saved many lives through their fortitude.
Marleen Barr, 2003-04
Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA)
Marleen S. Barr is herself a pioneer in the feminist criticism of science fiction. A professor of American Literature at Montclair State University, Barr specializes in postmodern fiction, narrative theory and cultural studies. Her many works include Oy Pioneer!, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond. Barr spent her HBI residency working on a new novel, Oy Quebecois!
Norma Baumel Joseph, 1999-00
Associate Professor of Religion, Concordia University (Montreal,
Quebec)
While in residence at HBI, Professor Joseph worked on her
book manuscript about Rav Moshe Feinstein’s legal
opinions and was the guest editor for “Food, Gender
and Survival,” Volume 5 of Nashim.
Orly Castel-Bloom, 2007
One of Israel's most celebrated authors of our times. Author Orly Castel-Bloom writes about Israeli society from the perspective of the satirist with a strong sense of the absurd. Her novels and stories have been described as an “experiment in a new art form” for their daring use of language and the unusual treatment of their subjects. Recognized as one of the fifty most influential women in Israel, she has twice won the Prime Minister’s Prize as well as various others prestigious awards, and her novel Dolly City has been included in UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works. Ms. Castel-Bloom came to the HBI in order to research the Israeli expatriate community for her next novel.
Julie Cwikel, 2007
Professor Cwikel is the Founder and Director of the Center for Women’s Health Studies and Promotion, Israel’s only academic center of women’s health studies with a multi-disciplinary approach. In addition to her responsibilities as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Julie mentors non-traditional women students (minorities, mature students) in their own research through her position as the Academic Advisor to the Continuing Education Unit. She has recently published a major new textbook Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism. While at the HBI, Dr. Cwikel carried out the US portion of her current research project looking at how mothers transmit health information to their daughters. Her research investigated how women learn about critical health behaviors in their lives including menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and maintaining health and mental health.
Sharon DiFino, Ph.D., 2007
Sharon is an expert in 18th and 19th century German literature, culture and intellectual history. She is an Associate Professor at University of Florida where she teaches courses in both the Germanic Studies and the Center of Gender and Women Studies. She is also the Director of the UF Utrecht summer program. In 2007 Sharon received the 2007 Madelyn Lockhart Faculty Fellowship in Women’s Studies, which is awarded to emerging scholars within their disciplines and advances women and gender studies scholarship. Sharon holds a doctorate in Eighteen Century German Literature from the University of Massachusetts.
Sharon Difino’s project at the HBI explores the parallels between the problems of liberal female Jewish intellectuals and writers in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as their possible mutual influence, from the late 18th century through WWII. The works that she analyzes focus on the cultural understanding of gender and ethnic identity and provide insight into the steps that these women took towards autonomy and emancipation.
Federica Francesconi, 2007
Trained in the Italian Jewish history and the history of Jewish culture, Federica Francesconi is a doctoral graduate of the University of Haifa and a recent Fellow of the Center of Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the few scholars researching the numerous Italian archives, Dr. Francesconi has uncovered a complete archive of a female sisterhood from the Italian city of Modena. A unique resource for European and Jewish scholars, the archive constituted one of the main sources for Dr. Francesconi’s research at the HBI on Jewish women philanthropists in Northern Italy during the eighteen and nineteenth centuries.
Michal Frenkel, 2006
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sociologist Michal Frenkel received her Ph.D. in 2001 from Tel Aviv University. An expert in work/family practices, Dr. Frenkel is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a Fulbright in 1996, the Koret Fundation’s Post Doctoral Fellowship in 2000, and grants from both the Ford Foundation and the Israel Foundation Trustees. During her residency at the HBI, Dr. Frenkel will focus her research on “Globalization and the Reconstruction of the Jewish-Israeli Gender Contract: Americas in Israel and Israelis in the US.”
"Gender Identities in the Israeli hi-tech Industry: Between Global Pressures and Local Institutions"
Harriet Friedenreich, 2006
Temple University
Harriet Freidenreich is Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia. A native of Ottawa, Canada, she earned a PhD in Eastern European and Jewish History from Columbia University. She is the author of The Jews of Yugoslavia (JPS, 1979), Jewish Politics in Vienna (Indiana University Press, 1991), and Female, Jewish, and Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women (Indiana University Press, 2002). She is presently working on a project on Jewish women in academia in the mid-20th century.
"On the Fringes of Academia: Jewish Women as University Faculty Before 1970."
Stephen Glantz, 2008
Independant Filmmaker
Stephen Glantz’s film and theatre credits include Europa Europa (producer), Babij Jar (creator and writer), and Tanglewood Tale (co-writer). His most recent film Der Letzte Zug/ The Last Train (writer) tells the story of three Jewish families and the six days they spent in a cattle car during their “relocation” from Berlin to Auschwitz. The film earned the Special Jury Prize at the 2006 Bavarian Film Awards and also received the imprimatur of the President of the Republic of Germany. At the HBI, Stephen Glantz used his residency to write a novel about the life of the people of a fictional Polish town known as Zolkiew prior to World War II.
Rebecca Goldstein, 1999-00
Novelist and MacArthur Award winner
Rebecca Goldstein delivered the keynote address at HBI's
Spring 2000 Conference on Gender and Jewish Education and
completed her novel Properties of Light.
Ellen Golub, 2003-04
Salem State College (Massachusetts, USA)
Ellen Golub attended Hebrew College and holds a Ph.D. in American Literature and Psychoanalysis from SUNY Buffalo. A former professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she currently serves as professor of Communications at Salem State College. In addition to academic articles and journalistic prose, she has written a young adult novel, Is My Mom OK? During her residency at HBI, she worked on a short story and a Talmudic style commentary for a “new Jewish reader.”
Beatriz Guervich, 2004-05
CEIEG-Universidad del CEMA (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Advisor to the Secretary of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Commerce and Culture (Argentina), Professor Beatriz Gurevich is an expert in the fields of Social Anthropology, Political History and Human Rights. She received a Masters degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires where she also received her license in Sociology. She is currently project director of the Program CIRSOF at the Universidad del CEMA in the Institute for International and Globalization Studies. The author of several books and numerous articles, Professor Gurevich’s work at HBI focused on transnational terrorism and Jewish women’s political activism following the AMIA bombing in 1994.
“Passion, Politics and Identity: Jewish Women in the Wake of the AMIA Bombing in Argentina.”
Eyal Katvan, 2006
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Eyal Katvan received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University,
where he produced his thesis titled: “Compulsory Examinations and Their Connection to the Oppression of Women”. He is both a post-doctoral student at the Faculty of Law,
and a Ph.D. candidate at the Interdisciplinary Program for Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University (for which he produced his thesis entitled, “The Medical, Physical and Mental
Examinations of Jewish Immigrants to Eretz Israel 1919-1938”). Eyal’s academic interests lie in the fields of bioethics, law & medicine, legal history and the history of
medicine; however, he specializes in the topics of “Medical, Physical and Mental Examinations,” as well as “Women in the Law”. Having served as a member of the Israeli Bar since
May 1998, Dr. Katvan has served as a Country Representative at The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, (FAB) as well as a visiting scholar in The Center for Clinical Bioethics,
Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He is a member of the Ethics Committee and of the Helsinki Committee at Rabin Medical Center. During his residency at the HBI, Dr. Katvan explored the topic of "Women's Entrance into and Integration within the Legal Profession in Eretz Israel and in Israel".
Sheila Katz, 2002-03
Professor of World Civilizations, Berklee College of Music
(Boston, Massachusetts)
Professor Katz completed her book on Jewish and Palestinian
women peace activists, Women and Gender in Early Jewish
and Palestinian Nationalis, and began research on a new
project on the history of grassroots contact between Arabs
and Jews in Israel and Palestine.
Melissa Klapper, 2007
Melissa R. Klapper is an associate professor of American and women's history at Rowan University. She has a BA from Goucher College and a PhD from Rutgers University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the author of two books, Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920 (NYU Press, 2005) and Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880-1925 (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2007). At the HBI, Professor Klapper's work focued on American Jewish women's pre-World War II activism in the suffrage, birth control, and peace movements. She has been awarded numerous fellowships for this work from sources as varied as the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Harvard. Professor Klapper is interested in the ways Jewish identity historically motivated Jewish women's significant activism in social movements.
Tobe Levin, 2006
University of Maryland in Europe
University of Frankfurt
Tobe Levin is professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland in Europe and adjunct at the University of Frankfurt. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and has studied and taught at numerous institutions in Europe. Professor Levin is the editor of Feminist Europa, and the chair of FORWARD – Germany against FGM (female genital mutilation). Professor Levin spent her time at HBI editing a collection of articles on the work of the controversial Austrian writer, Nobel Prize winner Elfried Jelinek.
"Public Intellectuals, controversial feminists: Elfriede Jelinek and Alice Walker."
Judith Lewin, 2008
Union College
Judith Lewin is an Assistant Professor at Union College in New York where she teaches courses on European and American Jewish Literature; Comparative Literature; Women's Studies; and 18th & 20th century French, German and British Literatures. She has written numerous articles and is the author of Literary Jewesses and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women: A Dynamics of Identification. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. At the HBI, Judith Lewin developed the manuscript of her next book devoted to Jewish women writers.
Julia Lieberman, 2008
Saint Louis University
Julia Lieberman is a researcher of early modern western Sephardic Jews, a scholar of Spanish literature, a native Spanish speaker, and a fluent Portuguese speaker. Julia has also completed extensive research of Hebrew and Sephardic writings, and is the editor of the first Spanish-language textbook on Sephardic history written expressively for use in the classroom. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Yale University.
Julia Lieberman’s study at the HBI of the Western Sephardim in the early modern period examined the educational system and the roles of women and children in life cycle events, as well as male attitudes towards education, family life, women and children.
Reina Reiner, 2007
Reina Reiner’s project is an exploration of the changing nature of orthodox family life in Israeli society as presented in the theatre. Building on her recent book, The Audacity of Holiness: Orthodox Women’s Theatre, Reina will now analyze repertoire and fringe plays, as well as study the reactions to them through ethnographic fieldwork. She aims to provide new insights about new emerging Jewish family patterns in orthodox society. A pioneer in the field of anthropological theatre studies, Reina Reiner is among the first to study theatre within the context of Israeli orthodox society. In addition to her course work, Reina regularly lectures and holds workshops on the connection between drama and teaching. She has a Masters in Theatre Studies from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology from Hebrew University.
Larissa I. Remennick, 2004-05
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Larissa Remennick is associate professor and past chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Born in Russia, she holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography of Health from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (1988). While at HBI, Professor Remennick completed an article on changing attitudes towards femininity, sexuality, and gender roles among former soviet immigrant women in the United States.
"‘Being a Woman is Different Here:’ Changing Attitudes towards Femininity, Sexuality, and Gender Roles among Former Soviet Immigrant Women in the U.S.”
Tania Reytan, 2001-02
Human rights activist and Jewish community organizer (Sofia,
Bulgaria)
While in residence at the HBI, Tania Reytan laid the groundwork
for research on Jewish women's communal participation in
the Balkans (Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania and Yugoslavia)
Lilach Rosenberg, 2007
Lilach Rosenberg earned her Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University and is a lecturer in the Martin Szusz Department of Eretz Israel Studies. The focus of her research is Historiography, Gender, and Israeli Studies. Dr. Lilach has published many works including, Revolutionaries Despite themselves: Women and Gender in Religious Zionism in the Yishuv Period. She is also the recipient of the Alon Scholarship. At the HBI Dr. Rosenberg continued her studies of the formation of the female identity in Israel. In particular, she examined the way cultural, religious and social contexts impact on the development of the female identity, within a historical perspective, as well as a contemporary perspective. She is currently completing her research concerning Shlihot Aliya from Eretz Israel (envoys for Jewish immigration to Palestine during the British Mandate) by carrying out an integrative analysis of three historical episodes and of the context they took place in.
Moshe Rosman, 2007
Moshe Rosman is a Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University and is the author numerous books and articles on the history of Eastern European Jews. His publications have received many awards including the1996 National Jewish Book Award for /Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov/, which also won the Shazar Prize for Best Book in Jewish History in 2000. Considered one of the finest scholars in the world working on the early modern period (1500 – 1800) of Jewish history in Poland, Professor Rosman is the only male in the field who has done significant history on women. His research while at the HBI focused on gender as a crucial element in understanding the integrated social and economic networks of the Jews in Eastern Europe during this time period.
Hannah Safran, 2007
Hannah Safran teaches at the Women’s Studies Programin Emek Yizrael College in the North of Israel and also in Women’s Studies and Art at the Lesley University extension in Netanya. She has been involved in both feminist activism and academic research on feminism for many years and is one of the co-founders of the organization, Women’s Coalition for Just Peace. Her most recent book is titled Don't Wanna be Nice Girls: The Struggle for Suffrage and the New Feminism in Israel.
Susan Sered, 1998-99
Professor of Anthropology, Bar Ilan University.
During her period of residence at HBI, Professor Sered researched
women’s health issues in Israel and wrote What Makes
Women Sick, published in the Brandeis Series on Jewish Women.
Sered also was the guest editor for “Motherhood,”
Volume 3 of Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies
and Gender Issues, now published by Indiana University Press
in conjunction with HBI and the Schechter Institute for
Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
Carmel Shalev, 2003-04
Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
(Tel Hashomer, Israel)
Carmel Shalev is director of the Unit of Health Rights and Ethics at the Gertner Institute for Health Policy Research and teaches health and human rights at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is a member of the Israel Helsinki Committee for Genetic Experiments in Human Beings and of the Scientific and Ethical Review Group (SERG) of the World Health Organization Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Geneva. Shalev spent the Spring semester at HBI working on a book-length project entitled “Gen-Tech Women,” a gendered exploration of the legal, moral and ethical implications of reproductive and genetic technology.
Margalit Shilo, 2000-01
Professor, Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Professor Shilo continued her research on Jewish women in
pre-state Palestine and published an article on 19th century
Yiddish pamphlets written by women.
Rabbi Sheila Shulman, 2002-03
Finchley Reform Synagogue, Beit Klal Yisrael (gay and lesbian
synagogue), Leo Baeck College, (London, UK)
During her residency (coinciding with a well-deserved sabbatical)
Rabbi Shulman wrote an article on the history and construct
of Jewish lesbian identity.
Sachlav Stoler-Liss, 2007
Dr. Stoler-Liss has completed extensive research in the faculty of Health Sciences Israeli social history, and Anthropology. Her thesis is the first of its kind to examine the role of health workers in the absorption process of new immigrants during mass migration. She received her Master's Degree from Tel Aviv University in the field of Sociology and Anthropology and her Doctorate from Ben Gurion University in 2007. She is the recipient of a doctoral grant from the National Institute for Health Service and Health Policy Research. Sachlav is lecturer of Mass Communications and health issues, and has published 3 papers in scholarly journals in Israel and abroad. At the HBI, Dr. Stoler-Liss vontinued the research she began while recently completing her Doctorate which focused on the medical absorption of immigrants by nurses and doctors during the mass immigration to Israel in the 1950's.
Liliane Targownik, 2006
Academy for Television & Film, Munich, Germany
Filmmaker Liliane Targownik was born in Munich. After graduating from the Academy for Television & Film (HFF) in Munich she worked as director, scriptwriter and journalist for television and radio in Germany and Israel. She completed her studies in 2003 with a Masters degree from Tel Aviv University in Jewish Philosophy. Ms. Targownik has served as a visiting lecturer for screenwriting at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Film Academy, the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich, the Tel Aviv University, Film and Television Department and the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School, Jerusalem. Her films include: Da schaut man nicht (1982), Zwischenspiel (1988), Aktion Suehnezeichen (1989), Leben im Muell (1990), Moving (1991), and Rosenzweig's Freedom (Rosenzweigs Freiheit, 1998). During her residency at HBI, Ms. Targownik finalized the screenplay for her next film, “The Rabbi and the Savior”.
Lenore Weitzman, 2008
George Mason University
Sociologist Lenore Weitzman is known in recent years for her many contributions to the field of Holocaust studies, especially for her innovation of carrying out a gendered analysis of the subject. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her work on the Holocaust, and is a co-editor with Dalia Ofer, of the groundbreaking Women in the Holocaust, a Jewish Book Award finalist. A professor of history, sociology, gender studies, and law, Lenore has also published widely on the social and economic consequences of divorce.
Lenore spent her time at the HBI researching, interviewing and collecting archival materials about the little known Kashariyot – the female couriers who aided the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The book that she is now writing is based on her research and will provide a missing chapter in the history of the Holocaust, and a new understanding of the wide range of women’s roles and activities in those years.
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