International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, Warsaw

The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, the University of Florida, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society at tha University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow invite applications for the twelfth session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry.

The session will take place in Warsaw. Its purpose is to promote the research and professional development of promising early-career scholars from around the world. The faculty is led by Natalia Aleksiun, Eugene Avrutin, Israel Bartal, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Engel, Eli Lederhendler, Rebecca Kobrin, Anna Shternshis, Yfaat Weiss, and Marcin Wodziński.

Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026 | DETAILS