Since its formation in 1960, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture has granted fellowships to over 300 scholars to encourage research, publication and teaching in the various disciplines of Jewish Studies. Through its Jewish Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the NFJC continues to provide fellowships for doctoral students in Jewish Studies as well as a grant for the publication of a dissertation by an academic press. The NFJC also sponsors the annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in Scholarship , and publishes articles on trends in Jewish studies. 2000-2001 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships Awarded to Twelve Outstanding Scholars.
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Schocken established in prewar Berlin, Jewish culture left the arena of the sacred and entered into the mass market. Purim and the Spanish Expulsion Jews traumatized by the expulsion from Spain and Portugal looked to the Book of Esther for explanation and succor. Lost in History A Stanford graduate student attempts to find how socialism, Yiddish, and American Jewish history fit together. Copyright 1997-2000, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Site design by YudelCom Communications .