The Fellowship Program
of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
was established in 1977 by our institution’s founder,
the late Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus. Since its inception, more
than 350 scholars from over 20 countries have been named Marcus
Center Fellows.
The Marcus Center’s Fellowship Program
was founded with the intent of creating a forum where students
and scholars of the American Jewish experience could gather
together to research, discuss, and study their chosen topics.
Under the auspices of this unique program scholars come to
Cincinnati to conduct in-depth research at the American Jewish
Archives and to take part in the academic community of the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The program
provides fellows with an opportunity not only to pursue their
own research, but also to interact and exchange ideas with
research peers as well as with the faculty and students of
HUC-JIR.
Today, The Marcus Center administers twelve
endowed fellowships, all funded by generous friends and supporters
of the American Jewish Archives. Marcus Center fellows are
teachers, students, scholars, and practitioners who, both
individually and as a group, come to the American Jewish Archives
to study some aspect of the American Jewish past. It is The
Marcus Center’s hope that this Fellowship Program will
advance our understanding of American Jewish history and,
simultaneously, of the American nation as a whole.
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