Project Grant RQ30002024
- This federal Project Grant award titled "IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST: SHORT FICTION BY JEWISH WRITERS FROM THE SOVIET UNION" was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The $199,487 award supports the critical translation and publication of Yiddish and Russian short stories written in the aftermath of the Holocaust by Soviet Jewish authors. The project aims to recover and provide access to this...
- This federal Project Grant award of $149,996.00, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program, supports research to develop computational methods for analyzing literature in low-resource languages. The key objectives are to build a BookNLP pipeline for the Yiddish language, create new annotated training data, and document the procedures for applying this approach to other low-resource languages. The...
- This $394,060 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature project. The project aims to provide English-language audiences with high-quality translations of modern Ukrainian literature, in response to the rising public and academic interest in Ukraine's history and culture following the 2014 Russian aggression and 2022 invasion. The project will...
- The Klezmer Institute Inc. will receive $297,120 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce the Kelisegof-Makonovetsky Critical Editions. This project aligns with the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) by making available early 20th century European Jewish music manuscripts to broaden accessible resources and contextualize the work of renowned ethnomusicological researchers. Specifically, the Institute will edit and publish...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $298,782 Project Grant to The Washington University in Missouri for the "Translating the Americas: Early Modern Jewish Writings on the New World" project. The goal is to complete the first translations of two 16th-century Jewish texts: Joseph Ha-Kohen's "Book of New India" and Luis de Carvajal's spiritual autobiography and religious works. Ha-Kohen's work is a modified Hebrew translation of Francisco de Gómara's...
- This three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161), will fund the transcription, translation into English, annotation, and publication of oral narratives from the Upper Inlet Dena'ina people of Southcentral Alaska. The $292,183 in funding will support Native Village of Eklutna to complete the known corpus of audio-recorded narratives primarily collected from late Elder Shem Pete between...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) a $349,999 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund a project to catalog, preserve, and digitize a collection of 7,000 historical broadsides, ephemera, and prints held by the JTS Library that depict three centuries of Jewish experience in the United States, from persecution and migration to settlement....
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $113,711 Project Grant to Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) to produce an annotated literary edition and English translation of the works of Anne de Graville, a French noblewoman whose writings had an enduring impact on literary and social women's movements. The project, titled "Resurrecting the Work of Anne de Graville," will take place from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. This grant is funded under the Promotion of the...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $279,594, was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The grant supports the CAORC-NEH FPIRI Research Fellowship Program, which enables American scholars to conduct long-term research at American Overseas Research Centers (ORCs) in strategically important regions such as Latin America, North and West Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, and the South Caucasus....
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $349,994 Project Grant to Case Western Reserve University under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) on January 1, 2025. The grant funds the "Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture" institute, which will take place at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The institute will examine the evolution of...
This federal Project Grant award of $195,669.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports the translation and dissemination of the works of Rokhl Brokhes, an early 20th century Yiddish woman writer. The project aims to recover Brokhes' literary legacy, which was nearly lost due to the Nazi invasion of Minsk in 1941, when plans to publish her collected stories, novellas, and plays were abandoned after her murder. Funding will enable the publication of a translation of Brokhes' short fiction, along with a scholarly introduction and annotations, to reshape understanding of Russian, Soviet, and Jewish cultural history during this period. The project will be carried out by Vanderbilt University's Sponsored Programs Administration division and is scheduled for completion by September 1, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $195.7k | 9/18/24 |