Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

2023 Research Award Recipients

HBI awards grants to support research or artistic projects in Jewish women’s and gender studies across a range of disciplines. These proposals are subject to review by members of HBI’s Academic Advisory Committee.
The Third Generations: Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory

Tamar Aizenberg, Brandeis University

Writing a Radical Feminist Art History in Israel: Martin Buber and Dialogical Art Historiography

Noa Avron Barak, Hebrew University

She Builds: Women Pioneers of Modern Architecture in Israel

Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv University

Women and Haskalah: Rethinking Women’s Participation in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures

Shirelle Doughty, University of California-Berkeley

Between Laws: Legal Culture, Gender, and Jewish Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1250-1492

Sarah Ifft-Decker, Rhodes College

This award is funded by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law

Delivering Knowledge: Midwives and the Making of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe

Jordan Katz, University of Massachusetts-Amherst/ Harvard Divinity School

Religious Misconceptions: American Jews and the Politics of Abortion

Rachel Kranson, University of Pittsburgh

This award is funded by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law

A Charitable Community: The Daily Life Among Poor Portuguese Jews in Eighteenth-Century London

Julia Lieberman, Saint Louis University

Jews and Drag: A Cultural Study of Jews and Jewishness in American Gender-Bending Performances, 1900-2020

Golan Moskowitz, Tulane University

Rashel Veprinski's WEAVING HANDS: Revealing the Female Voice in a Yiddish Literary Movement

Anita Norich, University of Michigan

Ellen Cassedy 

Drawn to the Past: Graphic Witnessing by Jewish Women Holocaust Survivors

Rachel Perry, University of Haifa

Gestating Judaism: The Corpuses and Corporalities of American Jewish Feminisms

Cara Rock-Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This award is funded by the HBI Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law

“You are not your own [person]”: Haredi Women’s Crucible? Exploring the precursors of feminist awakenings (or lack thereof)

Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Hebrew University of Jerusalem