David Axelrod

Professional Background

David Axelrod is a master’s student in history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, where he was awarded the 2015-2017 Glazer Family Fellowship. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Axelrod’s graduate research focuses on Nazi propaganda in the occupied Soviet territories, drawing extensively on Russian- and Ukrainian-language sources. He has served as an Academic Conference Assistant for the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and has held additional assistantships in courses on Jewish history and intensive writing.

His broader research interests include antisemitism as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon, Stalin’s policies toward Jews, and Soviet propaganda. He is fluent in Russian and proficient in Ukrainian, as well as in modern and biblical Hebrew.

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Summer Graduate Student Research Fellow, David Axelrod is working with Ellen Hegen in the Mandel Center’s International Archival Programs Division to collect, preserve, and make available the documentary evidence of the Holocaust, and with the personal paper collection of Eli Shechtman in particular.

Residency Period: June 1, 2017 - August 31, 2017