We are pleased to announce the first recipient of the Herbert Friedman Graduate Fund for Holocaust Studies: English PhD Student and Manin Fellow Eyal Handelsman Katz, who is currently finishing his dissertation on multiethnic American fiction and prose. Click here to view his documentary, Słabe Jajko, about his grandmother, who was a Holocaust survivor. 

The Herbert Friedman Graduate Research Fund for Holocaust Studies was established in 2024 in memory of Holocaust survivor Herbert Friedman by his son Mark Friedman and other family members. The fund provides financial support to an outstanding graduate student whose work focuses on some aspect of the Holocaust. To learn more about the fund and about Eyal's scholarship in Holocaust Studies, check out these interviews on our YouTube Channel.