| PhD Fellow | |
| Home institution: | Universität Wien |
| Time at IEG: | 2025, 2026 |
| Funding: | IEG Fellowship |
| Research topic: | Jewish Medical Humanitarianism in North Africa from the 1940s to the 1960s |
| "In my dissertation project I research the history of international Jewish medical aid for Jews in French-ruled Morocco between the Holocaust and decolonization. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Moroccan Jews became the object of Jewish aid projects in unprecedented ways. Operating in a network of international Jewish organizations like the JDC and OSE, Jewish public health experts, physicians and social workers offered maternal and infant health services and launched campaigns against infectious diseases. By examining the concepts and practices that drove these socio-medical projects and the spaces and encounters they created, I analyze the ways in which healthcare was a means to negotiate (post)colonial welfare responsibilities and Jewish belonging at the end of empire." |
(c) Julia Schulte-Werning
