Winners of the research grants contest have been announced

Victoria Gerasimova (Omsk State University). Project: “Jews in Soviet Siberia 1920-1930”.

Association of Researchers of Jewish Culture, “Petersburg Judaica” (European University, St. Petersburg), project leader: Alla Sokolova. Project: “Virtual Reconstruction of the Archives and Museum Collection of the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society”.

Yuliya Len (MA Graduate, Tartu University, Estonia). Project: “Soviet national and religious policies towards the Jewish community of Berdychiv in 1920s - early 1930s”.

Irena Vladimirsky (Achva Academic College, Israel), Maria Krotova (St. Petersburg State Economic University). Project: “‘No one could jump ABOVE himself’: The Unfulfilled Dreams of the Siberian Jewish Gold Entrepreneur Yakov Frizer”.

Laboratory of Theoretical Folklore Research Group (School of Contemporary Humanities, RANEPA, Moscow), project leader: Aleksandra Arkhipova. Project: “Jewish Commemorative Practices and the Contemporary Cult of Victory”.

“Jews in Latvia” Museum (Riga), project leader: Marina Geht. Project: “The View from Two River Banks: Jewish Life in Jēkabpils and Krustpils (Latvia)”.