Uni announces new 10-year fellowship programme for Jewish and Holocaust studies
Leading academics from universities around the world to take part at University of Sussex.
The University of Sussex has launched the only fully funded visiting fellowship to the UK in the field of Jewish and Holocaust studies.
Created in memory of five members of the Isaacsohn and André families who perished in the Shoah, the Isaacsohn André Fellowship Programme will initially run for ten years. It will see leading academics from universities around the world joining Sussex experts in Jewish and Holocaust studies as Visiting Fellows, for a period of up to three months each.
The Fellows join both the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies, within the University’s school of media, arts and humanities, and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies based at the University of Sussex.
The university has also received a donation of almost £500,000 from the Jusaca Charitable Trust for the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies.
Vice-chancellor, Sasha Roseneil, said the donations will help foster academic collaboration in Jewish and Holocaust studies: “As a university community, we have a responsibility to research and educate future generations about the Holocaust and to play our part in ensuring it can never be forgotten.”
The University of Sussex has a long-standing commitment to Holocaust education and research. It hosts its annual Holocaust Memorial Day during the afternoon of Wednesday 1 February 2023, where Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg BEM will share his experiences.
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