Rachelle Grossman received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue her project, “Afterwords: Yiddish Publishing in the Postwar World,” at the Goldrich Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature and Culture at Tel Aviv University. Her work addresses the politics of Jewish cultural creation and salvage after the Holocaust. She focuses on the transnational links between Yiddish readers, writers, publishers, and funders that made up a literary network stretching between Poland, Argentina, the United States, Israel, and beyond.

Rachelle earned a BA from Columbia University and a BA and MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University. In 2024, she was an Azrieli postdoctoral scholar at the University of Haifa’s Interdisciplinary Unit on Polish Studies. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
 
Her recent publication:
“The Most Mexican of Us All: Yiddish Modernism and the Racial Politics of National Belonging.” Comparative Literature Studies 60, no. 2 (2023): 282-310. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.60.2.0282