
03/10/2023
Call for Proposals: Creative, Pedagogical, and Research Projects Working with Yiddish Testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive | In geveb
Call for Proposals - please help us circulate this announcement!
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University is a collection of over 4,300 testimonies of Holocaust survivors, witnesses, and liberators. Only a fraction of these testimonies have ever been used in teaching, research, or cultural productions like documentaries. That is doubly true for the dozens of Yiddish language testimonies, many of which may hardly have been viewed since they were first recorded or processed at the archive.
It is for this reason that In geveb is collaborating with the Fortunoff Archive to encourage and fund scholars to work with the collection. Our hope is to bring the archive “off the shelf” and into your computer screens.
The Fortunoff Video Archive, together with In geveb, will provide funding (between 500 and 2500 USD per submission) for a series of projects and publications that are based primarily on the Yiddish language materials in the Fortunoff Video Archive. These projects can be conceptualized in various ways, either as traditional research publications, educational materials that employ testimonies in classroom teaching, or cultural productions like podcasts or documentaries. In geveb invites those who produce materials for this project to submit them for consideration for a special issue that will gather these unique projects and publications in one location for further dissemination.
The deadline for the first wave of submissions is June 1, 2023. The evaluation committee will contact applicants within 4 months of submission.
Proposals should consist of:
Curriculum Vitae
Project description and budget (max. 1000 words)
Please submit your proposals to [email protected] with the subject heading “Fortunoff Submission”
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University is collaborating with the In geveb to encourage and fund scholars to work with the coll