The ATCJS is thrilled to introduce our 2025-26 Postdoctoral Fellows!
Adam Farkas
Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Adam Farkas holds a PhD in Russian History from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. Before arriving at the University of Toronto, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University. His work has been supported by the Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives, the Hungarian Eötvös State Scholarship, and the Fordham–NYPL Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies.
He is currently an Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His research examines the oral histories of Soviet Jewish émigrés who arrived in the United States in the 1970s, analyzing their personal stories within broader questions of identity formation, cultural perception, and migration. Through these narratives, he investigates the dissonance between émigrés’ self-understanding and the cultural expectations of American society, and how this shaped their integration and sense of belonging.
Oskar Czendze
Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies
Oskar Czendze is a social and cultural historian of the modern Jewish experience in a global context. Trained in central and eastern European and American Jewish history, his research focuses on transnational histories of migration and travel, with a particular interest in questions of memory, belonging and place, and the nation in the modern era. Prior to arriving at the University of Toronto, he earned his doctorate in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He held major research fellowships and grants from the Center for Jewish History in New York, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, American Academy for Jewish Research, and Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
During his postdoctoral fellowship, Czendze is preparing his first monograph, “Galicia on the Hudson: Migration and Jewish Belonging Before the Holocaust.” Situated in New York between 1890 and 1939, the book traces the ways in which Jews from Habsburg Galicia, the second-largest group of eastern European Jewish immigrants, produced and mobilized the Yiddish cultural label of the Galitzianer to create a sense of belonging and claim their position in the diverse immigrant community. This project rethinks the centrality of the nation to ideas of the self and community. It shows how regional belonging intensified in the diaspora during the major upheavals of war, migration, and state-building in the modern era. Czendze is also starting research on his second project, “Jews on Holiday: A Global History of Jewish Leisure Travel,” which examines the interaction between ideas of time, technology, and local cross-cultural encounters to offer a new history of Jewish tourism across the 20th century.
Shlomo Zuckier
Igor Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish-Christian Relations
Shlomo Zuckier is a scholar of ancient Judaism and the religions of late antiquity. He earned his PhD at Yale University in 2020 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at McGill University, the University of Notre Dame, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His current research explores the complex interactions among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from their formative periods onward. He focuses in particular on biblical interpretation and theology as key arenas in which these traditions debated and competed, while also borrowing from and learning from one another.