Gil Rubin chosen as Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellow 2019-2020

The Fortunoff Video Archive is pleased to announce that Gil Rubin has been chosen as the third Geoffrey H. Hartman Fellow.
Gil Rubin received his PhD from Columbia University in 2017. He was an Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University 2017-2019 and Co-Chair of the Jews in Modern Europe Study Group at the Center for European Studies, Harvard. His research concerns the history of Jews in East Central Europe, the Holocaust and the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. He is currently writing a book, The Future of the Jews: Planning for the Postwar Order, a history of planning for the reconstruction of Jewish life in Eastern Europe and Palestine after the Second World War.
In addition to his current research project, Gil will produce an annotated critical edition of a testimony from the collection. Please join us in welcoming Gil to the Fortunoff Video Archive.