Upcoming Fellowship

Hanover, Germany | August 5 - 12, 2018

From Generation to Regeneration – Engaging Memory, Culture, and Identity will explore the very complex and constantly shifting relationship of memory and Jewish identity, particularly in the wake of the Shoah, and in the context of contemporary challenges around migration, refugees and rising xenophobia.

Who Should Apply

Young men and women between the ages of 25-40 who demonstrate motivation and interest in Jewish learning and living, capacity for individual growth, professional and communal achievements, and leadership potential are eligible to apply.

Cost

Room and board for those chosen as Fellows is provided by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. The Fellows themselves and/or the local community or organizations they represent must cover travel expenses. There are limited travel scholarships available on request.

Apply

Applications for the 30th Nahum Goldmann Fellowship are now closed. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by June 30, 2018.

Program

The intensive and highly interactive program, will be conducted in English.

Lectures include: Transitions and Traumas: Return to Germany; Migration, Mobility and Memory and Return & Regeneration: Contemporary Germany as a Case Study for Robust Jewish Life in the Diaspora.

Faculty

Prof. Saul Berman,Professor of Jewish Studies, Stern College of Yeshiva University, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Law, USA

Prof. Steven Windmueller, American Scholar and Jewish Communal Professor, Prof. emeritus, contemporary political Issues and American Jewish Affairs, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, USA

Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and Senior Scholar, Center for the Jewish Future, Yeshiva University, USA

Prof. Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies & History,Rutgers University Founding Director, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, USA

Prof. Jonathan Schorsch, Professor of History, Universität Potsdam, Founder & Creative Director, JASS – The Jewish Activism Summer School, Germany

Prof. Eric Goldman, Noted film historian and educator, adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University; also teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University and The Streicker Center; founder of Ergo Media, Inc., USA

Dr. Channa Pinchasi, Director, Be’eri School for Teacher Education at the Shalom Hartman Institute. Founded the Cheider Mishelach forum, Israel.

Mrs. Shana Yocheved Schacter, Psychologist, USA

Dr. Svetlana Jebrak,  scientific associate in the Department of International Affairs of the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany.

About The Fellowship

The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship occupies a unique place in the Jewish world offering high level learning that crosses religious, ideological, political, and geographic lines. As the centrifugal forces in the Jewish world increase in volume and vilification, the NGF offers a compelling counter-force. We nurture global Jewish unity and peoplehood: we believe in the inherent value of Klal Yisrael, its heritage, history, and culture. The Fellowship encourages individual Jewish expression, informed by engagement with serious Jewish scholarship and by real interactions with other young Jews who represent the full spectrum of the Jewish people.

Contact

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information, contact ngf@mfjc.org