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Dr. Naama Seri-Levi | Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Dr. Naama Seri-Levi

Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Subject: The Polish-Jewish Refugees who flex to the Soviet Union during the Second World War 

Supervisor: Prof. Yfaat Weiss
Abstract: My research deals with the Polish-Jewish refugees who fled to the Soviet Union during World War II and the Holocaust. Although most of the Polish survivors were part of this group, their story is hardly told and the research regarding it is poor. 
By tracing after the networks those people held during the years of the war, I hope to discover some aspects of that unique experience. The study will highlight the daily lives of these refugees as well as their hopes and expectations for the future. It will also examine how other Jewish communities   sought to learn about the fate of the refugees and those left behind in Poland, and to respond to their plight, both at the personal and institutional levels.

Sort bio: PhD candidate at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. Working at The Martin Buber Society of Fellows. Lives in Jerusalem, married to Ariel and a mother of Hillel-Moshe and Ivri-Pinchas.

Publications:

הרפטריאנטים במחנות העקורים 1946-1947", ילקוט מורשת 97, 2016, עמ' 75-39.
English Version: "These People are Unique: The Repatriates in the DP Camps, 1946-47", Moreshet 14 (2017), pp. 49-100.

 

Presidential Stipend 2016/17