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The editors of Diasporas invite proposals for articles, in French or English, on the experience of migration carried out by researchers in the humanities and social sciences, wherever they come from, throughout the 19th and 20th century.

Priority will be given to the following themes, which are non-exclusive and often mutually permeable:

• Forms and strategies of integration into the host scholarly environment: analyzing and measuring adaptation (but also possible resistance) to the use of another language, to different forms and registers of scientific writing; to the methods, but also to the working, teaching, information-gathering and processing practices that prevail in the host institutions; to new places of scientific practice and the conventions that are specific to them.
• The relationship with objects and workplaces: books, archives, museum objects and collections, fields, excavation sites... How does the relationship change with the materiality of objects of study and workplaces no longer available or accessible? How are methods being transformed in the face of these shortages?
• The way in which local researchers and immigrant scholars perceive and describe changes in their discipline as a result of the latter’s arrival; the rise of disciplinary mythologies linked to migration (in art history, for example, the 1970s and 1980s saw the development of a narrative of the origins of the discipline in the United States in which the arrival of German-speaking researchers in the 1930s played a central role).
• The effects of censorship and self-censorship, particularly regarding the difficulties encountered in the new scholarly environment, the welcome given to migrants by locals, forms of professional protectionism, stereotypes about migrants that develop in the host area, and anti-Semitism in the case of Jewish scholars. The material and financial situation of migrant researchers is also one of the subjects most rarely raised in the texts they produce.
• The relationship with politics in the host country, whether in terms of immigrant scholars’ view of local political life, and their possible participation in it, or more specifically their role in university politics and in creating more or less informal assistance structures for migrants.
• The gendered dimension of scholarly migration: how does migration impact the trajectory of female researchers, and how does it influence their collective visibility in the world of scientific work?
• Finally, examining the role that migration plays in the construction of a public image of the scholar, and the possible specificity of the trajectories of researchers in the humanities and social sciences compared to those in other disciplines.

Deadline for submisisons: March 16, 2026 | DETAILS

Die Edition Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital (BKD) hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die umfangreichen Bestände aus Bubers Nachlass in der National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem sowie in anderen öffentlichen und privaten Archiven in Israel, Europa und den USA in einer digitalen Edition für die breite Öffentlichkeit und die Wissenschaft zu erschließen. Das transdisziplinäre Denken Bubers ist dabei in den Bereichen von Theologie, Philosophie, Religionswissenschaft, Literatur, Kunst, Soziologie, Pädagogik und Psychologie zu verorten. Seine Kontakte und sein intensiver Austausch mit zahlreichen berühmten, aber auch mit heute vergessenen, zeitgenössischen Persönlichkeiten und Institutionen bieten einen Einblick in die dialogischen Beziehungen und die Gelehrten- und Intellektuellennetzwerke Bubers.

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The editors invite submission for a special issue of LAJS (Latin American Jewish Studies) on Jewish Worlds of the Global South: Conversations Across Latin America and Oceania. This special issue intends to broaden that exchange by exploring what scholarship already exists, encouraging new connections, and opening pathways for a sustained dialogue between these regions. The issue aims to explore Jewish experiences, cultural production, and intellectual histories across the Global South. Conceived as a curated dialogue, the issue seeks to draw connections among contributions, highlighting shared questions, divergences, and unexpected affinities. We especially welcome work that engages themes such as immigration and exile, linguistic hybridity, evolving minority identities, and rich literary and visual cultures.

Abstract proposals and articles in: English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Deadline for abstracts April 30, 2026 | DETAI

The editors invite submissions to an edited volume on Archives and Archival Practices in Latin American Jewish History. The volume emerged from a collaboration between The Jewish Library in Argentina project (Cynthia Gabbay) and the Jewish Archives Revisted project (Joanna Zofia Spyra). Papers on archives, archival collections, and source practices related to Latin American Jewish history are welcome.

Proposal languages and articles in: English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors invite submission for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artists, musicians, and other practitioners whose work intersects either directly or conceptually with Yiddish archives. Case studies of specific archival projects that speak to the practical considerations of working with and making collections of Yiddish language, literature, and culture accessible will also be accepted. Case studies should include background information, analysis, and implications for a broader audience. For the translation section, translations of letters, diaries, memoirs, etc. written by archivists, librarians, collectors, and researchers working with/for/in institutions that have historically collected and housed Yiddish archives are welcome.

Deadline for submission: March 6, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of Hispanófila invite submissions for a special issue on Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. This special issue of Hispanófila aims to survey Jewish writing from modern and contemporary Spain, thinking expansively about the languages, genres, themes, and identities that continue to shape this body of writing.

Deadline for proposals: March 6, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of Casden Annual Review invite submissions to a special issue with focus on Pacific Jewish Histories to shed light on an underrepresented geography of Jewish history, East Asia and Southeast Asia, and to bring together new research within this emerging subfield.

Any topic on Jewish history and experience in the area spanning East Asia, Southeast Asia and the transpacific (broadly defined) are welcome.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

• “Port Jews”
• Jewish migration and diasporas
• Jewish networks (commercial, religious, cultural, etc.)
• Material histories and the circulation of religious objects and artifacts
• Circulation of objects, food, etc., supply chains, infrastructure
• Encounter and exchange (including intra-Jewish and Jewish and non-Jewish)
• Connection to military interventions, imperial networks and colonial regimes
• Experiences of the Second World War
• Judaism and Jewish thought in Asia/religious observance and innovation
• Jewish travel and travel narratives

Deadline for submission: April 15, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors call for submissions to a Special Issue of Religions that analyze the impact of polemics, conversion or the combined effect of both on medieval Jewish-Christian relations from various perspectives. The thematic approach is intentionally broad; both general investigations as well as comparative or specific case studies from the fields of Jewish studies, theology, religious studies, history, art history and literary studies as well as interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.

Deadline for intended contributions: February 28, 2026

Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 15, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of the open access journal Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies invite contributions that explore the concept’s application to any culture or society worldwide and throughout history. Welcome are creative artworks of any media and personal reflections on this theme. Potential research topics:

• Jewish women's role in religious life;
• Jewish women’s leadership in governance, community decision-making, and legal traditions;
• Women’s roles in celebrations, festivals, and ritual life;
• Impacts of colonialism, state interventions, and militarization on gender roles;
• Ethnographic, ethnohistorical, or biographical accounts of Jewish women’s lived experiences
• Jewish myths, legends, and oral histories that reflect or resist matricultural paradigms
• Creative expressions – artworks, literary pieces, reflections, videos – exploring Jewish women’s experiences

Deadline for abstracts: January 19, 2026 | DETAILS

Laura Arnold Leibman (Princeton University) and Anabella Esperanza (Tel Aviv University) invite scholars from all academic disciplines to contribute to the forthcoming source reader: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity.

Topics of a wide range concerning the

• Material Culture and Archeological Evidence
• Ritual Purity and Religious Thought and Law
• Medical Debates
• Social Histories of Ritual Impurity
• Production of Knowledge and Transmissions
• Literary and Artistic Representations
• The Body, Embodiment and Lived Experience
• Inter-religious, Local and Transregional Comparative Frameworks
• Spatial Organization & Architecture of Ritual Baths
• Gender, Class and Authority
• Oral Histories

are welcome.

Deadline for proposals: January 20, 2026 | DETAILS

MLN, John Hopkins University Press, invites submissions for an inaugural issue for a new biennial issue devoted to Jewish literatures. Articles may address any aspect of Jewish literature, culture, and thought and can engage with texts in any language, especially Yiddish or Hebrew.

Deadline: March 1, 2026 | DETAILS

Im Juli 2025 erschien die neue Ausgabe der Onlinezeitschrift Medaon: Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung. Diese Ausgabe umfasst Beiträge aus den Bereichen Jüdische Identität(en), Auswirkungen des Überfalls der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 und Auseinandersetzung mit Antisemitismus.

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Nach zehnjähriger Arbeit am Aufbau eines Digitalen Archivs jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren in Berlin 1933–1945 (DAjAB) an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) wird das Portal am 7. Juli 2025 eröffnet.

Das Portal umfasst derzeit rund eine Million gespeicherte Informationen, um dem vergessenen literarischen Feld jener Jahre Konturen zu geben. Neben detaillierten biografischen Informationen zu den Personen, werden deren vielfach nach 1945 nicht wieder aufgelegte Bücher, Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenbeiträge und ausgewählte Sekundärliteratur aufgeführt. Darüber hinaus befinden sich bereits mehr als 4.000 digitalisierte Werke aus den Jahren 1933 bis 1945 sowie Originaldokumente und Nachlassmaterialien, Fotografien und Interviews in dem Portal. Hinzu kommen mehr als 1.000 kulturelle Veranstaltungen, Aktivitäten von etwa 2.200 Organisationen sowie Informationen über nahezu 2.800 Orte jüdischen Lebens in Berlin und dem Berliner Umfeld.

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Im April 2024 veranstaltete das Research Centre Global Dynamics in Leipzig und der NFDI4Memory den Workshop Area Histories und die NFDI4Memory: Zur Rolle der Fachinformationsdienste, auch mit Beteiligung des FID Jüdische Studien.

Daraus entstand eine spannende Artikelserie in der Online-Zeitschrift Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. Darin enthalten ist der Beitraghttps://www.connections.clio-online.net/article/id/fda-150110von Kerstin von der Krone.

Dr. Daniel Stein Kokin will present in a virtual project launch: All the Points: Interactive Online Mapping of Settlement in the Israeli-Palestinian Region (1840-2023). “All the Points” draws upon the dynamism of digital mapping to tell the story of the Israeli-Palestinian region including the Arab, European Christian, and other communities as equal parties in an ongoing narrative. Using colors and shapes, the project’s main map traces the founding, disappearance, and evolution of communities on an annual basis from 1840 down to 2023, while curated maps highlight specific features of the region’s settlement history at varying time scales.

Registration required

Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00 PM CET | DETAILS