This year, two ResnickSenior Fellowships will be awarded to senior, tenured (or tenure-equivalent) professors. In addition, we are pleased to announce that two additional fellowships will be awarded toResnick Emerging Scholars — academics who hold full-time positions at a university or college and completed their doctoral degrees within the last four years.
You can applyhere.
The fellowship provides a generous stipend and a digitization allowance to support research. Fellows will be in residence at the National Library for a period of one to two months during the summer of 2026. During this time, fellows are expected to:
Conduct advanced research utilizing the Library’s resources.
Deliver a public lecture to engage a wider audience.
Participate in a seminar for graduate students.
The fellowship provides a competitive stipend to support research. Fellows will be in residence at the National Library for a period of one to two months during the summer of 2026. During this time, fellows are expected to:
Conduct advanced research utilizing the Library’s resources.
Engage with Israeli colleagues in their field of research.
Successful project proposals will include a thorough explanation of how in-person access to collections at the National Library of Israel is essential to the progress and completion of the research project. Core collections include:
Fellows will also have access to the extensive holdings of theCentral Archives for the History of the Jewish People, housed at the Library.
The Resnick Fellowship Program at the National Library of Israel is made possible with the generous support of Stewart and Lynda Resnick.
Both fellowships are open to full-time academics who are not residents of Israel. Please consult the Call for Applications for further details.
New application deadline: July 10, 2025
Notification of decision: September 2025
The application process for both fellowships is completed online.
For further details, please contact:[email protected]
Resnick Fellow 2025
Professor Brenner is the Acting Chair of the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at Ohio State University, USA. Her project examines the emergence of entertainment fiction in Hebrew during the 1930s and 1940s, which laid the foundations for Israeli popular culture. Despite their popularity during the interwar period, many of these fictional texts remain virtually unknown and are rarely collected by libraries. While some novels portray conventional damsels in distress, others delve into women’s experiences in Palestine with remarkable depth, exploring themes of desire, sexuality, and social status beyond the constraints of melodramatic plots.
Resnick Fellow 2024
Professor Martínez Delgado is affiliated with the Department of Semitic Studies at the University of Granada, Spain, and an internationally recognized expert on Andalusi Judaism. During his residency at the NLI, he conducted an in-depth survey of the Library’s unparalleled collection of medieval manuscripts as part of an ambitious project to systematically catalogue the manuscript legacy of the Jews of al-Andalus.
Resnick Fellow 2024
Professor Halperin is a Distinguished Endowed Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, USA. During her fellowship in Jerusalem, she investigated the extensive archive of David Tidhar (1890–1970), author of a biographical encyclopedia on the pioneers and builders of the Yishuv. Her Resnick lecture, entitled “In Search of the ‘Bnei Yishuv’: Excavating Forgotten Pasts in the David Tidhar Archive,” explored her findings.
Resnick Fellow 2025
Professor Shyovitz is the Director of the Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University, USA. His research project, ‘O Beastly Jew!’ Jews, Animals, and Jewish Animals in the Middle Ages, examines the medieval concept of Jewish animality through an extensive corpus of theological, scientific, literary, and visual sources. The construct of the “beastly Jew” appeared in royal courts, monastic libraries, rabbinic academies, synagogue liturgies, sermons, poems, paintings, fables, and folktales, reflecting its wide-ranging impact across medieval society.
Resnick Fellow 2025
Professor Stern is the Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature at Harvard University, USA. His project, An Unsystematic History of the Jewish Book, recounts the history of the Jewish book as a material artifact. Through short essays on 150 carefully selected scrolls, manuscripts, printed books, and digital texts, Stern traces the evolution of the Jewish book from the Isaiah Scroll and a surviving fragment of the Septuagint to contemporary digital works.
Resnick Fellow 2025
Professor Wodziński is the Chair of the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland. His project, The Two Enlightenments, investigates the correlations, influences, and mutual perceptions between the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and the Polish Enlightenment. The “Two Enlightenments” in his title not only highlight the interplay between these two movements but also reflect the internal tensions within the European Enlightenment, oscillating between progressive ideologies and its darker, ethnocentric tendencies.
