The Jewish Community Project & American Jewish Historical Society COVID-19 Research Fellowship Application

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Thank you for your interest in the JCP & AJHS COVID-19 Research Fellowship! Please respond to the questions below in 400-600 words. We encourage you to write your responses in a separate document before submitting them through this form.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis and must be submitted by 8:00pm EST on Friday, June 12. Upon submission of this form, we will promptly notify you regarding your acceptance into the program and your next steps for registration.

To learn more about the content and objectives of the Fellowship, please continue reading:

In this on-line course, students will study the history of American Jews, accessing and analyzing historical documents, learning with historians from across the country, and applying skills to their own individualized research projects.

On one level, students will learn how America has shaped the Jewish experience and how Jews have helped shape America, studying topics such as the Great Depression, World War II, Civil Rights, feminism, and antisemitism. On another level, they will master historical tools that enable them to place their own family histories in a broader context. Throughout, they will debate the usefulness of the term “the American Jewish community,” and consider the connections between past and present.

Students will also learn that they are historians at a particularly historic moment and will be urged to document the current moment through photography and oral history: How is the Jewish community responding to COVID-19? These documents will be analyzed together with input from historians and will become part of the AJHS archive.

Course project: Students will develop questions and topics that they will incorporate into a questionnaire to use to interview family, comprising at least two generations. These interviews will be recorded via Zoom and will blend the sharing of family stories with important milestones and movements in American Jewish history. They will have the benefit of guidance from AJHS archivists, historians, and a Princeton University undergraduate assistant.

Program dates: Mondays, 4:00-5:30pm, June 22 - August 17 (no meeting on July 6)

Program cost: $1,800

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Respond in 400-600 words: Describe a photo, object, or recipe that is important to you or your family and tell us what stories it tells you. As you analyze this story, consider questions you might have about it. *

Respond in 400-600 words: Tell us a story about you or your family that you want to make sure your grandchildren know about you. *

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