CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship for Yugoslavian Testimonies
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-2025) for Yugoslavian Testimonies, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University A brief description The Fortunoff Video Archive is a collection within the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The Archive, which began as a grassroots effort in New Haven to record on video the testimonies of survivors, witnesses, and bystanders in 1979, currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies comprising over 10,000 hours of moving image materials. These testimonies were produced with the cooperation of 37 affiliate projects working in over a dozen countries and just as many languages. The archive is still recording testimony at Yale University. The Fortunoff Archive is a unique collection that has served as an important resource for scholarship in a wide range of disciplines for more than three decades. The program is designed as a dynamic, multidisciplinary fellowship that will encourage use of the Fortunoff Video Archive as a foundation for scholarly research and production. Fellowship length The Fortunoff Video Archive will offer a fellowship to a visiting postdoctoral scholar fluent in Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian language, with expertise in the history of Yugoslavia, Sephardic Jewish history, and a particular focus on the 20th Century […]
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