Biographical Summary

Didi Tal is a 2025-2026 Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Didi is a PhD candidate in German Studies at Columbia University, researching immigration to the United States during the Holocaust. Her dissertation examines the role of paperwork in immigration control through primary, legal, literary, and cinematic sources. Most recently, her work was supported by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she was the 2024-2025 William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews. At Columbia, Didi has been an instructor of German language, and was awarded a Lead Teaching Fellowship and a Teaching Scholars Fellowship for the Spring of 2026 to teach her own class “Narrating Immigration Control.”