Winners of the 2006 Competition

Grant Program

I. Category:
To conduct academic research on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture

Winners:

Ljudmila Bakshi, Ph. D. in Art Studies, lecturer at the Moscow State A. Shnnitke Institute of Musik (Moscow). Topic: Krimchaks’s  Folklore.

Natalia Zhukovskaja, Doctor of History, Head of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studes of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Topic: M.A. Krol. The Papers of My Life. Memoiries. (Preparation of the text for publication).

Il’ja Zajzev, Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director of the Institute of the Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Topic: Karaite Manuscripts in Depositories of Moscow Achieves, Museums and Libraries (annotated index).

Alexander Ivanov, Research Fellow at the Center for organization of the Jewish museum in St. Petersburg “Petersburg Judaica” (Saint-Petersburg). Topic: “Reconditioned Fact”: the Representation in Documentary Pictures of 1920-1930 of the Jewish Organisation of the Use of Land in USSR. (according to the materials of the archives OZET (Society for Settling Jewish Toilers in Agriculture) and ORT (Society for Craft and Agricultural Labour.)

Dmitrij Sen’, Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director of the scientific work at the Krasnodar E.D. Felizin’s History Archaeological Museum – Reserve (Krasnodar). Topic: Jews of the North-Eastern Caucasia: the Problems of the Identity Formation (the Second Half of the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century.)

Alexander Frankel, Director of the Saint-Petersburg Jewish Community Center (Saint-Petersburg). Topic: Saul Ginzburg’s Memories: Translation, Scientific Commentary, Preparation of the Text.

Elena Shtein, Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Academic Associate at the Institute of the Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Topic: History Memory and Its Part in Preservation of the Jewish Self Identity in the Modern Russia (according to the examples of Russia Little and Middle Towns.)

II. Category:
To publish manuscripts of academic works on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture

Winners:

Jakov Gordin, Chief Editor of the Magazine “Zvezda” (Saint-Petersburg). Publication of memories Ljudmila Miklashevskaja-Ajzengard, Nina Katerli “Chemy, Chemu Svideteli Mi Bili”… Sud’bi. XX Vek. (“What, What were we witnesses of…” Fates. The 20th Century).

Anatolij Ivanov, Doctor of History. Research Fellow at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Monograph Evropejskoje Studenchestvo v Visshej Shkole Rossijskoj Imperii Nachala XX veka (European Students in the High School of the Russia Empire in the beginning of the 20th Century).

Vladislav Ivanov, Doctor of Art Studies, Head of the Theater Department at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow). Monograph GOSET: Politika i Iskusstvo. 1919 – 1928 (GOSET [Moscow Yiddish Theatre]: the Policy and the Art. 1919 – 1928).

Erlena Lur’je, (Saint-Petersburg). Publication of memories Dal’nij Arhiv (The Remote Archive).

IV. Category:
To develop defended candidates’ theses on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture in the monograph

Winners:

Ekaterina Kapilkova, Ph. D in Psychology, Research Fellow of the Sociology Center of the Russian Academy of Education (Moscow). Monograph Psihologija Jevrejskogo Anekdota (Psychology of the Jewish Joke).

V. Category:
Travel to conference and seminars

Winners:

Maria Kaspina, Ph.D. in Philology, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). The Conference Russian and World Literature, Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University, 6-8 March, 2006. Topic: The Reflection of Folklore Themes in S. An-sky’s Works.

Anna Zukanova, Ph. D in Psychology, educational specialist, psychologist at the Amur Pedagogical College, the Head of the Center of the Psychological and Pedagogical Support of the Educational Process  (Blagoveshchensk). The seventh regional Conference Jews in Siberia and the Far East: the History and the Present, Kemerovo, 21-22 August, 2006. Topic: Teaching of “Holocaust” in Amur Region.

VI. Category:
Scholarships for undergraduate students, students of Master’s programs, first-year graduate students of Russian and East European Jewish culture and history

Winners:

Victoria Gerasimova, 3rd- year student at the Russian-American Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic: Sociocultural Face of the Jewry in Russia in the Fist Half of the 18th Century.

Elena Grushevskaja, 3rd- year student at the Russian-American Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic: “Pinkos of Lithuanian Vaad” as Source of the History of Lithuania Jews Life in the 17th Century.

Anastasija Komoljatova, 1st-year Ph.D. student at the Lomonosov Pomor State University (Arkhangelsk). Topic: The Jewish Community of Arkhangelsk: History and the Present.

Olga Minkina, 2nd-year Ph.D. student at the Department of History of the European University in St. Petersburg (Saint-Petersburg). Topic: Jewish Deputations in the Russian Empire: 1773 – 1825. Genesis, Structure, Forms of Addressing the Authorities.

Elena Solopova, 3rd- year student at the Russian-American Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic: Jews and Slavic Public Theater Performances.

Valentina Fedchenko, 1st-year Ph.D. student at the Saint-Petersburg State University. Topic: The Distribution of the Linguistic Codes in the Texts of the Jewish Macaronic Songs.

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