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Once a year the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase. The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches, and the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History (Israel).
Deadline for application: October 6, 2024. Further details
The German Historical Institute Paris, in cooperation with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Dortmund University and the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS), is organizing the conference “Between Exchange and Expulsion. Jews and Christians in France, 1096–1394”. The Conference will take place in Paris on September 17-19, 2024. Further information | | Conference Program
The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for its 2025-26 Frankel Institute Fellowship: Jews & Media.
The “Jews and Media” fellowship year will explore these questions:
- What can Jewish Studies learn from Media Studies and vice versa?
- How have different media shaped the Jewish public sphere and fostered connections or divisions among Jews and non-Jews, as well as among Jews of diverse backgrounds?
- How have Jews adapted certain media and how have these media contributed to the construction of Jewishness? Likewise, how have Jews been represented in different media, and how have these representations influenced public perceptions?
- What is the role of the media in discussions of the real or perceived influential position of Jewsin media production?
Deadline: November 4, 2024. Details
The Holocaust Research Institute (HRI) at Royal Holloway, University of London, is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral research fellow to contribute to a major donor-funded project, “Global Jewish Studies in/as Holocaust Studies” for the academic year 2025-26. The successful candidate will conduct research in their area of expertise, contribute to teaching undergraduate and MA modules, as required, and will also be expected to deliver 1-2 “masterclasses” for postgraduate students, faculty and HRI associates. The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated within commuting distance from London.
Deadline For application: October 4, 2024. Details
The University of Trier offers a MA in "Interreligious Studies: Judaism, Christians, Islam". The aim is the comparative study of the three religions through the research-oriented combination of historical, religious studies and theological approaches. The prerequisite for the course is the successful completion of a Bachelor's degree course in the humanities or social sciences (no admission restrictions).
Deadline for applications: September 15, 2024. Details (in German only)
Via EAJS: CFP for the session “Jewish Women in the Middle Ages” to be held as part of the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2025.
The contributions of Jewish women are often absent from broader discussions on Jewish-Christian relations, the production and use of Hebrew manuscripts, and representations of Jews in the art and artifacts of the Middle Ages. This session aims to highlight the active role of Jewish women in the Middle Ages. We welcome proposals for 20-minute original papers that address any aspect of the lives of Jewish women in Ashkenaz, Sepharad, or Italy. Topics may include, but are not limited to, Jewish women as patrons, merchants, collectors, readers, scribes, authors, and artisans. Papers dealing with understudied topics, such as Jewish women in pre-expulsion England, are especially encouraged.
Deadline for papers: September 15, 2024. Details
The University Salzburg offers a MA in Jewish Cultural History. The MA program in Jewish Cultural History is a diverse, interdisciplinary program, which deals with Jewish culture, history, and religion from antiquity to the present. The main fields are Jewish traditional literature, Yiddish and German-Jewish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, research on antisemitism and the Holocaust, and language courses in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish that must be taken over a span of three semesters each.The specific approach of the Master’s program in Jewish Cultural History at the University of Salzburg lies in its interdisciplinary networking of Jewish Studies with other research fields of cultural studies. A combination with the MA program in Religious Studies is possible. Partial scholarships for language courses abroad in Hebrew and Yiddish can be awarded. Participating in various summer courses (for example, at the European Summer University for Jewish Studies in Hohenems) is also possible.
Deadline for application: August 10, 2024. Details
The Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies invites applications for a research assistent in the Department of Bible and Jewish Bible Interpretation to start in November 1, 2024. It is a 50% part time position for 3 years. The payment is according to salary group E 13 TV-L.
Deadline for applications: August 13, 2024. Details
Jewish Women's Archive invites applications for the position of the Fellowship Director, who will lead JWA’s new fellowship for Jewish women writers of color. This yearlong fellowship is a new initiative intended to support and amplify underrepresented voices in the field and to position them as thought leaders in the Jewish community and beyond. Working in close partnership with JWA staff, the Fellowship Director will serve as the primary designer and coordinator for the program, and will provide editing support and mentorship for the fellows. This is a 16-month, part-time (0.25 FTE), contracted, remote position, with a salary of $26,667 and the opportunity to extend for future years of the Fellowship.
Deadline: July 21, 2024 Details
The Wiener Holocaust Library invites proposals for contributions to a thematic section of “History of Intellectual Culture” (HIC), an international and interdisciplinary open-access yearbook for peer-reviewed papers, published by De Gruyter and edited by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, and Jana Weiß. The theme, titled A Postwar Republic of Letters? Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production after the Holocaust focuses on the circulation of knowledge via letters and other forms of written communication within and among survivor historical commissions after the Second World War, emphasizing the interplay of gender and other differences in the history of knowledge and intellectual culture in this context. The proposed contributions can address any aspect of the broad themes outlined above or other, more specific topics that relate to the production and circulation of knowledge, history of knowledge, and intellectual culture.
Deadline for submissions: August 2, 2024. Details
The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a one-year full-time position in Modern Hebrew at the rank of Lecturer. The appointment is for the 2024-2025 academic year. Native or near-native command of Hebrew required. Advanced degree required, Ph.D. preferred.
Deadline: August 4, 2024. Details
The Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, the Commission on Slavonic and East European Studies of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the German Historical Institute Warsaw, invite papers for the conference “Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective,” September 15 - 17, 2025 at the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw.
Contributions from the entire field of research on history of violence in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century are welcomed.
Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2025. Details
The American University of Paris and Université Paris Cité invites proposals to its 12th biennial conference Narrative Matters 2025 in Paris, May 13-16, 2025. The conference is co-organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris and the Paris Center for Narrative Matters at Université Paris Cité.
Papers on different aspects of narratives and on narratives are welcomed:
· Narrative responses to crisis and conflict, repair and reconciliation.
· The narrative processes of establishing fact, truth, reality.
· The rights, authority, and entitlement to narratives, experiences, or identities.
· Disparate worlds of illness and care.
· Disparate bodies, disparate narratives (e.g., disability, transableism, gender identity).
· Literary, artistic, and cultural narratives and the conspiratorial imagination.
· The narrative worlds of systematic discrimination and racism.
Deadline: October 15, 2024. Details
Via EAJS: The Unit for Judaic Studies (LMU, Munich) invites submissions for the workshop: Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship; Claiming authorial agency in rabbinic literature and medieval midrash, December 5-6, 2024 at the at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. The workshop focuses on different aspects of authoriality, authorial agency, and new more nuanced concepts of medieval authorship in rabbinic literature early medieval midrashic texts (2nd to 10th centuries CE). It approaches them also with a comparative perspective to Judaeo-Arabic literary production, in which novel notions of authorship emerge.
Abstracts that seek to explore one or several of aspects on a textual, material or/and structural level are welcomed.
Deadline for application: July 31, 2024. Details
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute offers grants to support research or artistic projects in Jewish Women’s and Gender studies across a range of disciplines. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers. 2025 Research Award Categories are Antisemitism, Gender and the Holocaust, Gender and Jews of Color, Gender and Mizrahi Studies, Jewish Feminism and Jews in Feminism, Jews, Gender, and Disability Studies, LGBTQ Jewish Studies, Women’s rights and religious law, Yishuv, Contemporary Israel and Zionism.
Deadline: September 18, 2024. Details
Via EAJS: The European Association for Jewish Studies introduces a new online format to its members, the EAJS Virtual 2024, an annual online conference with panels and plenary sessions revolving around a broader theme. This year, EAJS invites its members to present and discuss papers around Jewish literatures, places, and heritage. It will also offer an opportunity to hear about current activities of the Association.
Submissions on the following or related subjects are welcomed:
- Studies on Jewish Literary Geographies and Jewish Studies
- Theoretical Issues and Case Studies: How could the link between Literature, Heritage, and Tourism impact the cultural diffusion (Within and beyond the prominent cases mentioned above)
- Narration and Representation of Jewish Spaces and Cultural Change
- Studies on Literary Geographies and their connection to Jewish Cultural Heritage and to Jewish history
- Literature and the Performance of Void Spaces
- Experiences and Work on the Field in Jewish (Literary) Tourism
- Presentations on collaborative research initiatives, bridging Academic Scholarship with Local Heritage
Deadline: July 31, 2024. Details
Via H-Net: The Kaplan Center, University of Cape Town in cooperation with Monash University and the University of Toronto invite applications for a workshop on May 26-28, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. The focus will be on how Yiddish speakers, writers, performers, and idealogues have grappled with the shifting centres of Yiddishland over the last century. To be invited are studies that explore marginalized regions and topics and access underexplored resources as the basis for new narratives about Yiddish migration and innovation. In order to facilitate discussion, we expect contributors to share a 3,000-4,000-word draft chapter with the other participants by May 1, 2025. Instead of traditional presentations, each author will briefly introduce their chapter for discussion.
The Kaplan Centre will cover accommodation and most meals during the workshop. We expect to provide graduate students with travel stipends.
September 15, 2024. Details
Die Stiftung ZURÜCKGEBEN fördert seit 1994 Projekte jüdischer Künstlerinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen in den
unterschiedlichsten Bereichen wie Film, Literatur (z.B. Biographien, Autobiographien, Sachbücher, Romane, Gedichtsammlungen), Tanz und Theater, bildende Kunst, Wissenschaft (z.B. Forschungsvorhaben, universitäre Abschlussarbeiten).
Aktuell können sich jüdische Künstlerinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen mit Wohnsitz in Deutschland für Stipendien und Zuschüsse im Rahmen der Ausschreibung der Stiftung ZURÜCKGEBEN. Stiftung zur Förderung jüdischer Frauen in Kunst und Wissenschaft für das Jahr 2025 bewerben.
Bewerbungsschluß: 2. September 2024. Details
The University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral position (50% for 3 years with option for extension) at the Sigi Feigel Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies starting January 1, 2025. The call for applications is aimed at doctoral students who are about to complete their dissertation or have already completed it.
Deadline for applications: August 11, 2024. Details(in German)
The Hebrew University Jerusalem offers tenure-track positions in different fields of Jewish and Hebrew Studies, especially in Hebrew Literature and Rabbinical Literature. The Hebrew University’s primary language of instruction is Hebrew.
Deadline August 25, 2024. Details
The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania has announced a new postdoctoral fellowship that will combine teaching, public scholarship, and research in the field of contemporary antisemitism studies.
The appointment, renewable for up to three years, combines teaching students, helping to develop learning opportunities and other resources for the broader public, and serving as a source of expertise within and beyond the university. The person in the role will also serve as an adviser to the Katz Center as it seeks to develop a concurrent multiyear initiative to support new research in the study of antisemitism.
Application will begin to be reviewed on September 27, 2024, with a start date either in 2025. The person selected will be invited to join the cohort of the Center’s fellowship year in 2025–26 focused on contemporary Jewish life. Details
The DFG Priority Programme on "Jewish Cultural Heritage" invites scholars to propose individual papers or panels for the international conference “Jewish Cultural Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies”. The conference will take place on March 3-6, 2025 at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institute in Bonn, Germany.
Deadline for submission: September 1, 2024. Details
Buber-Rosenzweig Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main invites abstracts for the conference “European Hebrew Text Cultures: Deciphering Entanglements through Close and Distant Readings”. This conference aims at contextualizing Hebrew literature and exploring its creation from a European Jewish Studies and Hebrew Literature scholarly perspective. Moreover the orginizers want to establish a connection with researchers focusing also on the reception and perception of the rising Hebrew literature from the perspective of its surrounding cultures, mainly Yiddish, German, French, and various Eastern European literary traditions. The conference will take place in Frankfurt on May 26-28, 2025.
Deadline for abstract submissions: July 25, 2024 | Details
Abstract proposals are invited for a new proposed volume titled "What if the Israeli/Palestinian conflict would be resolved tomorrow?" within the De Gruyter Press book series "Contemporary Jewish Life - Contributions toward Jewish Life Worlds in Germany and Europe."
Please submit your abstract (250-300 words, excluding references) by Aug. 1, 2024 to sarah.ross@hmtm-hannover.de | Further information
Registered users of our FID-Licenses have trial access to five English-language newspapers of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers und Periodicals Archive Online until July 19, 2024
The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)
The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City. In 1903 it merged with the Jewish Messenger. The paper covered many topics of Jewish interest internationally.
The Jewish Advocate (1905-1990)
The Jewish Advocate serves as a primary source of news and informations as well as a forum for discussion and debate, providing lines of communication uniting the American Jewish community and supporting the efforts aimed at reinvigorating and broadening Jewish religious and cultural life.
The American Israelite (1854-2000)
The American Israelite is the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States. The American Israelite was and is the leading newspaper of American Reform Judaism.
The Jerusalem Post (1932 - 2008)
Founded in 1932 as The Palestine Post, this paper established itself as the top English-language paper of the Middle East and Jewish world. The publication came to be known as The Jerusalem Post in 1950.
Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)
The Jewish Exponent is one of the oldest Jewish newspapers, which promoted Zionismus in the American context. Along the way, it has garnered honors each year from the American Jewish Press Association for excellence in Jewish journalism for its news, features, reviews and commentary.
VIA EAJS | The University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), and the Workshop on the Study of the Jews in Greece (WSJG) are inviting papers for a two-day conference on ‘Jewish Urban Landscapes in Mid-20th Century Europe’, to be held in Athens, Greece on February 4-5, 2025
Papers should be delivered in English and should last no more than 20 minutes.
Deadline for abstracts submission: September 23, 2024. Details
Die NFDI 4Memory veranstaltet im Rahmen der Linking Data | Linking Communities-NFDI4Memory-Reihe eine Summer School zum Thema Digitale Methoden und Archivwesen am Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg vom 24. (abends) bis zum 26.09.2024 (mittags) in Stuttgart.
Der Fokus wird vor allem auf den Schnittstellen im Bereich digitaler Methoden und Use Cases liegen, konkret stehen unter anderem folgende Themen zur Diskussion:
● Was wünscht sich die Wissenschaft von den Archiven, was die Archive von der Wissenschaft?
● Wo ähneln oder überschneiden sich die Werkzeuge und Methoden der Digital Humanities und die von Archiven und Bibliotheken benutzten und bereitgestellten?
● Wie lässt sich etwa KI gewinnbringend sowohl für die Erschließung von Archivgut als auch für die Forschung mit diesem Material einsetzen?
● Wie können Verfahren zur Auswahl, Extraktion und Anreicherung von Daten für die Bedarfe beider Welten optimiert werden?
● Woher kommen Prozessumgebungen, die eine robuste massenhafte Verarbeitung ermöglichen?
● Wie werden Authentizität und Reproduzierbarkeit von Ergebnissen sichergestellt?
● Welche Potentiale birgt eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen Archivwelt und Digital History in der Ausbildung sowie der Fort- und Weiterbildung, damit in Archivwelt und Geschichtswissenschaft die jeweils erforderlichen Kompetenzen zur Verfügung stehen?
Bewerbungen mit einem kurzen Lebenslauf und einem halbseitigen Motivationsschreiben können bis zum 19. Juni 2024 eingereicht werden.
The Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz invites applications for the Kurt-David-Brühl Guest Professorship for Jewish Studies for the Summer Semester 2025 (March 1, 2025-June 30, 2025).
The visiting professorship comprises a total of 4 semester hours per week of teaching in the form of a lecture with tutorial and a seminar. One of the courses is to be held in English and is part of a cooperation with Bar Ilan University. In addition the guest professor will organize a a one-day workshop on their research focus.
Deadline for application: August 31, 2024. Details (in German)
Das Seminar für deutsche Philologie, Professur für Germanistische Mediävistik an der Universität Mannheim sucht eine wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bzw. einen wissenschaflichen Mitarbeiter im Forschungsprojekt “Old Yiddish Adaptations of German Literary Texts, 1400–1800. Cultural Transfer and Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Europe”.
Das internationale und interdisziplinäre Projekt wird im Rahmen des Förderprogramms ‚Nahostkooperation‘ gemeinsam mit der Hebrew University of Jerusalem durchgeführt und bietet hervorragende Karrierechancen.
Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Juli 2024.
Das Leo Baeck Institut New York | Berlin und die Universität Bremen veranstalten die gemeinsame Veransatlung “Carl Katz und andere: Falsche Kollaborationsvorwürfe gegen Juden in der Holocaust- Geschichtsschreibung” am 25. Juni 2024 um 13.00 bis 18.00 Uhr im Haus der Wissenschaft.
Die Tagung nimmt die bis in die jüngste Zeit von Historiker:innen erhobenen, falschen Anschuldigungen gegen die prominenten jüdischen Bremer Carl Katz und Alfred Ries zum Anlass für die Frage: Wie kam es dazu?
An der Veranstaltung kann unter diesem Link auch per Zoom teilgenommen werden
Meeting-ID: 614 5852 1754
Kenncode: 025875
Das Seminar für deutsche Philologie, Professur für Germanistische Mediävistik an der Universität Mannheim sucht eine wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin bzw. einen wissenschaflichen Mitarbeiter im Forschungsprojekt “Old Yiddish Adaptations of German Literary Texts, 1400–1800. Cultural Transfer and Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Europe”.
Das internationale und interdisziplinäre Projekt wird im Rahmen des Förderprogramms ‚Nahostkooperation‘ gemeinsam mit der Hebrew University of Jerusalem durchgeführt und bietet hervorragende Karrierechancen.
Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Juli 2024.
Am Tikvah Institut gUG ist frühestmöglich zum 1. Juli 2024 eine Stelle (TVöD 13, bis zu 100 %) einer wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin bzw. eines Mitarbeiters in der Antisemitismusforschung und -bekämpfung zu besetzen. Die Befristung läuft zunächst bis zum 31. Dezember 2024. Arbeitsort ist Berlin-Mitte.
Bewerbungsschluss: 24. Juni 2024. Mehr
Die Landesbibliothek Oldenburg lädt bis zum 20. Juli 2024 zur Ausstellung “Komm, goldener Pfau! - Jiddisch neu entdecken” und Begleitprogramm ein. Die Ausstellung widmet sich verschiedenen Aspeten der jiddischen Sprache und Kultur sowie Werken der jiddischen Literatur aus verschiedenen Epochen.
Das Begleitprogramm beinhalt Sprachkurse, Konzerte, Filmaufführungen und Vorlesungen.
Der Eintriff ist frei
Das Haus der Geschichte Österreich (hdgö) im Verband der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek sucht eine Kuratorin bzw. einen Kurator mit Schwerpunkt Geschichte des Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus für die vorbereitende inhaltliche Konzeption, Planung und Realisierung des neuen Ausstellungangebotes von Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart.
Bewerbungsschluss: 21. Juli 2024. Mehr
The research project „From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” invites applications for the position of an assistant coordinator (50% E13 TV-L). The project is funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Responsibilities include: Supervising the project fellows, planning and organizing events, collaborating with the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures, and managing public relations.
Deadline for application: July 15, 2024. Details (in German)
The Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton invites applications for avisiting fellowships to academics in the field of Jewish/non-Jewish relation for the academica year from 2024-2025. Applications from scholars at any stage of their career studying Jewish/non-Jewish relations from any disciplinary perspective in the humanities are welcome. Potential areas include: anthropology, gender studies, history, the arts (art, music, literature), archaeology, religious studies. Special consideration will be given to applications that demonstrate engagement with the Parkes Library and Jewish archives.
Deadline: June 30, 2024, Details
The Leo Baeck Institute London invites applications for a three-year PhD scholarship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German-Jewish history and culture with a focus on the 20th century.
The recipient of this scholarship will be based at the School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London.
Deadline for application: July 31, 2024. Details
The Faculty of Protestant Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt invites applications for a research assistant (E 13 TV-G-U) in the field of architectural history for the project “Synagogengedenkbuch Hessen I: Forschung und Dokumentation“. A university degree in architectural history or a related field is required. This is part of the research project „Zerbrechliche Nachbarschaften. Synagogengedenkbuch Hessen“.
Deadline for application: June 30, 2024. Details (in German)
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe provides funding to institutions and organisations across Europe holding materials, records, books and objects relating to the Jewish experience throughout history.
Grants are available for archives, libraries, museums, professional institutions and organisations to ensure their collections are accessible for research and education and to convey Jewish heritage and culture for diverse audiences.
Deadline for submission for Collections Management and Exhibition Support: June 24, 2024. Further details
The Leo Baeck Institute London invites to the launch event of the pop-up exhibition ‘Library of Lost Books in Britain’ hosted at the Wiener Holocaust Library on June 6, 2024.
The exhibition is part of the Leo Baeck Institutes’ (Jerusalem & London) joint endeavour to trace and virtually reunite the books of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin (Higher Institute of Jewish Studies, 1872-1942) that fell prey to systematic Nazi looting.
The Exhibition will be held until July 10, 2024-
Furter information on the website of the Wiener Holocaust Library and the Leo Baeck Institute London
The Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Young Scholars Awards for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience will be awarded to two young academic scholars from all fields of study who have completed an exceptional Master’s thesis and are currently writing a PhD dissertation, or have recently completed a PhD thesis all of which are related to the Jewish experience. The awards consist of two scholarships of up to € 7,500 each offered to two young international scholars for a research stay of three months at the University of Vienna
Deadline for application: July 31, 2024. Details
Rescheduled — The FID invites doctoral candidates and postdocs to participate in our Regional Forum Jewish Studies in Hamburg.
The one-day workshop will take place on July 4, 2024 at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Universität Hamburg . Participants are welcomed to share their experience with current research services and infrastructures (this may include search tool and databases used, the accessibility of literature and data, DH tools, etc.). The Regional Forum aims to explore current and futures needs for research in Jewish Studies and Israel Studies, among others enabling the FID to further develop its services.
We invite scholars from Hamburg and the region to register until June 24, 2024 on info@jewishstudies.de
The Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum invites applications for a research assistant (TV-L: E13 - 50%) in the areas of exhibitions, collections and digital work and PR, for the development of new digital-analogue exhibitions on Berlin’s Jewish history and present.
Deadline for application: June 23, 2024. Details
The City of Cologne together with various local institutions invites to the Jewish art festivel "AUFSCHIMMERN – ZEIT FÜR JÜDISCHE KUNST IN KÖLN" from May 28-31, 2024. The program features literature, cabaret, film, music, dance, and visual arts at various venues throughout the city. Further information (in German)
We are happy to offer our registered users of our FID-Licenses trial access to two databases:
Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures
The "Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures of Brill Verlag places textuality and materiality of the book in the center of its investigation. The singularity of the Jewish book can only be understood in full if it is studied in its broader cultural and intercultural context. It covers more than 2000 years of Jewish book cultures from all corners of the earth.The Encyclopedia includes searchable full-text with richly illustrated articles.
De Gruyter Portal for Jewish Studies
The De Gruyter Portal for Jewish Studies provides access to all relevant databases in Jewish Studies of the prestigious publishing house:
German-Jewish History
- Archive Bibliographia Judaica - German-speaking Jewry Online
- German-Jewish sources from Palestine / Israel
- Klemperer Online
Religion
- Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online
- Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
- Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English
- Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online
Bet Tfila - Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig schreibt für “Jüdische Kulturerbe-Studien” - eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in für die Erarbeitung einer Konzeptstudie aus. (EG 13 TV-L, Teilzeit bis zu 80% möglich)
Bewerbungsschluss: 6. Juni 2024 | Mehr
The FID invites doctoral candidates and postdocs to participate in our Regional Forum Jewish Studies in Heidelberg
The one-day workshop will take place on June 26, 2024 at the University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg. Participants are welcomed to share their experience with current research services and infrastructures (this may include search tool and databases used, the accessibility of literature and data, DH tools, etc.). The Regional Forum aims to explore current and futures needs for research in Jewish Studies and Israel Studies, among others enabling the FID to further develop its services.
We invite scholars from Heidelberg and the region to register until June 14, 2024 via info@jewishstudies.de.
via NLI | The National Library of Israel invites senior scholars to apply for the Stewart and Lynda Resnick fellowship program during during Spring/Summer 2025.
The fellowship program is designed for scholars whose work will benefit from on-site access to the NLI special collections, in one or more of the Library’s core collection areas: Israel, Judaica, Islam and the Middle East, Humanities, and/or Israeli and Jewish music. The fellowship includes a generous stipend and a digitization allowance. Recipients of the fellowship will be in residence at the National Library of Israel for one-two months in the summer of 2025, during which they will pursue their research and give a public lecture.
The program is open to tenured professors who are not residents of Israel.
Dealine for application: June 30, 2024. Details
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Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies invites applications for the Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School 2024, that will take place online from August 27 to September 6, 2024. The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in Biblical Hebrew. Each weekday, there will be 3 hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, from 11:30-13:00 and 14.00-15.30 UK time.
Deadline for application: July 12, 2024. Details
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) invites applications for the Annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies. The Workshop will take place from July 28 to August 9, 2024 at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. Purpose of the workshop is to map, decode, and combat the current explosion of global antisemitism, contributing to the development of contemporary critical antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.
For exceptional candidates, limited scholarships are available.
Space is limited - Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Yiddish Summer Weimar 2024 will take place from July 12 to August 17, 2024. In its third year the programm will once again be dedicated to comparing Yiddish and Ottoman cultures. In its 12 workshops in Yiddish language, instrumental and vocal music, dance, etc. the focus will be on Moldova as a historical region. These will be led by artists and academics. In addition, there will be a broad program with discussions, lectures and an international concert program.
Click here for the full programme
via EAJS | The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) announces the second round of the EAJS Small Research Grant Programme (SRGP). Funded by its core funder, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, the programme offers support to full and student members for their individual research. Funding will be offered to fully paid-up Full Members of the EAJS as well as EAJS Student Members enrolled on a research degree (PhD) at a European institution of higher learning, to help them to pursue archival and library studies, as well as participating in conferences related to their area of research.
Deadline for application: June 27, 2024 | Details
via EAJS | The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris, France, invites applications for two Doctoral scholarships in the field of Hebrew Palaeography and Manuscript Studies. The successful candidates will prepare their doctorate at the EPHE, PSL, under the supervision of Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and will join the team led by her in the framework of the ERC Synergy project MiDRASH (Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script).
The invited doctoral proposals on individual topics are to be within the following broader fields:
Paléographie 1: “Medieval Hebrew Liturgical Manuscripts: Between France and Germany”
Paléographie 2: “The Mishnah and its Commentaries: Codicology, Palaeography and Book History”
Deadline for application: May 30, 2024 | Details
via EAJS | The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) announces the second round of the EAJS Small Research Grant Programme (SRGP). Funded by its core funder, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, the programme offers support to full and student members for their individual research. Funding will be offered to fully paid-up Full Members of the EAJS as well as EAJS Student Members enrolled on a research degree (PhD) at a European institution of higher learning, to help them to pursue archival and library studies, as well as participating in conferences related to their area of research.
Deadline for application: June 27, 2024 | Details
Goethe Universität zusammen mit dem Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, Lehr- und Forschungsforum - Erziehung nach Auschwitz und den Freunden der Universität laden herzlich zur Rinvorlersung “Diversität und Diskurs. Antisemitismus. Erinerrungskultur. Demokratie. Wie (un-)politisch ist die Universität?” ein.
Die Ringvorlesung findet vom 28. Mai bis zum 9. Juli 2024 im Hörsaalzentrum Westend, HZ 6 der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main statt.
Programm:
28 Mai 2024
- Grußwort Prof. Dr. Enrico Schleiff,
Präsident der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Funktion, Leistung, Übersetzung.
Wissenschaft und Politik zwischen gegenseitiger
Enttäuschung und Erwartung
Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi, Institut für Soziologie,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
4 Juni 2024
- Jenseits von Singularität und Multidirektionalität – Plurale
Erinnerungskultur als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung
Prof. Dr. Frederek Musall,
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
11 Juni 2024
- Lassen sich Erfahrungen „teilen“, Perspektiven
„übernehmen“?
Über Imagination, Tribalismus und Erinnerungskultur
Prof. Dr. Markus Rieger-Ladich, Universität Tübingen
18 Juni 2024
- Definitionen und Diversity. Antisemitismusforschung
zwischen Politik, Polarisierung und Praxis
Dr. Sina Arnold,
Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin
25 Juni 2024
- Bildung und Judenhass.
Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven auf den Umgang
von Universitäten mit Antisemitismus
Dr. Sebastian Voigt,
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin
2 Juli 2024
- Krieg und gesellschaftliche Krisen. Was heißt es heute,
Politische Wissenschaft zu betreiben?
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff, Peace Research Institute
Frankfurt / Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
9 Juli 2024
- Wie (un-)politisch ist die Universität?
Podiumsgespräch mit
Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.,
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Wenzel, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt a. M.,
Prof. Dr. Sabine Andresen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.
Weitere Inforamtionen finden Sie hier
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) invites applications for fellowships at all career levels (from praedoc) at the Institute of Culture Studies . Projects shall focus on closing research desiderata in the field of antisemitism research in Austria. Deadline for application: May 30, 2024. Details
via H-Soz-Kult | The Center for Jewish Studies at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz invites applications for the Petra Ernst-Fellowships for the winter semester 2024/25. The fellowship is aimed at researchers of different academic stages (pre-docs/post-docs) who work on a topic within the fields of European-Jewish literatures, culture, or history since the Enlightenment. Deadline for applications: June 15, 2024. Details (in German)
The FID Jewish Studies invites postdocs and doctoral candidates from Hamburg region to the Regional Forum Jewish Studies on May 22, 2024 (10:00-16:30) in Hamburg.
Join us to discuss the service requirements you have in Jewish Studies. Share with us your experiences with services provided by the FID for Jewish Studies and other research services in the field.
Our FID Regional Forum in Hamburg is organized in cooperation with the Institute für Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Universität Hamburg.
Please register by May 15, 2023.
For further information click here (in German)
The next Regional Forum will take place in Heidelberg Region on June 26, 2024. Further information soon
On the occation of Yehuda Amichai’s 100th birthday Würzburg liest e.V. organizes a series of events commemorating the work of the German-born Israeli poet. The events will take place in Würzburg in May 11-16, 2024, in cooperation with the a id="a3">Gesellschaft für christlich-jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Würzburg und Unterfranken, the Leonhard Frank-Gesellschaft and the city of Würzburg. The full program can be found on the website of Würzburg liest e.V.
The Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands. The lecture will be given in English and will be connected with a stay in New York between November 18–24, 2024. Deadline: May 31, 2024. Details via the Association of European Jewish Museums
The World Union of Jewish Studies invites applications for its Ulpan Scholarhips Summer 2024 for BA, MA and PhD students and early career scholars of Jewish Studies. Applicants may apply to any of the Summer Ulpan programs offered by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University International School and University of Haifa. Deadline: April 30, 2024. Details
An der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg ist möglichst ab dem 1. Juli 2024 die Stelle eines Akademischen Mitarbeiters (m/w/d) im Fachbereich Talmud, Codices und Rabbinische Literatur (Teilzeitstelle 50 %) befristet zu besetzen. Die Dauer der Befristung richtet sich nach dem Qualifizierungsziel, eine Erstvertragslaufzeit sollte drei Jahre nicht unterschreiten. Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Mai 2024. Mehr
NFDI4Memory hosts its event series "From Books to Bytes: The Digital Transformation in Historical Studies - Learning, Teaching, and Research in the Age of Digitization", which discusses current topics and relevant fields of application in research and teaching with experts, researchers and lecturers. The event series takes place digitally. Organizers aims to publish presentations either on Zenodo or on YouTube . Full program and information
The Hebrew Studies section of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of modern reading traditions of the Hebrew Bible. The role includes the work on the compilation of a reference grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Deadline for application: May 1, 2024. Details
We are pleased to offer you a trial access to the database of the Henrietta Szold Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences. This license is specifically directed towards researchers in Israel Studies.
The Henrietta Szold Institute was founded in Jerusalem in 1941 and focuses on educational research and the social sciences.
You have access to three databases providing sources in Hebrew: bibliographic information and abstracts of research articles in the social sciences and education, published by Israeli researchers, in Israel and abroad in various languages; a collection of research tools for empirical research (e.g. questionnaires and scales); and digitized version of the journal “Megamot” and other publications of the Henrietta Szold Institute.
Please note, the databases are exclusively in Hebrew.
Access to the databases is possible until May 20, 2024.
Für Fragen nutzen Sie unser Kontaktformular.
The Research Center in Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University DH@HU invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in digital humanities for the academic year 2024-2025. DH@HU is an interdisciplinary research institute focused on the development and application of digital and computational approaches to the study of humanistic objects. Researcher in the digital Jewish Studies are welcome to apply for this fellowship. Deadline for application: April 30, 2024. Details
The Department of Jewish History and Bible of the University of Haifa invites applications for the Wolfson Chair Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Thought for the 2024-25 academic year. Deadline for application: May 15, 2024. Details via H-Soz-Kult
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University invites for “Jewish Immigration Reconsidered”, a Symposium by this year’s Harry Starr Fellows in Judaica and Alan M. Stroock Fellows for Advanced Research in Judaica. The Symposium will take place at Harvard University on April 15, 2024, 16:30 (EDT). Details
The Center for Teaching of Jewish Civilization, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the support of Israel Institute, Washington, DC, invites scholars and lecturers teaching about Israel in universities around the world to apply for the workshop “Israel and the Middle East”. The Workshop will take place in Jerusalem, September 15-19, 2024. Deadline for application: May 31, 2024. Details
The Israeli author Sami Michael passed away on April 1, 2024. Born and raised in Baghdad, he immigrated to Israel in 1949.
In his works, Michael dealt with the migration experiences of Jews from Arab countries. In Israel, he was socially and politically active, advocating for peace between Jews and Arabs.
His most famous novel, "A Trumpet in the Wadi" was published in 1987.
You can find this and other works by Sami Michael in our catalog.
The FID for Jewish studies invites you to take part in the upcoming Coffee Breaks meetings. In these Coffee Breaks we present our work and digital services for researchers in Jewish Studies and Israel Studies working in German academic institutions.
Our next meetings (approx. 30 min. ) will take place in coming April, and each will focus on different subject:
on Tuesday, April 16, 2pm - we will talk about our FID Catalogue
on Wednesday , April 24, 11am - we will present our FID-Licences and will give you the opportunity to ask us about our work at the FID for Jewish studies.
Join us here:
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/65760951082?pwd=ZEFjWitGL01FVUxQY2hpTjMxNGpuZz09
Meeting-ID: 657 6095 1082
Password: 048707
The Coffee Breaks take place in German, however if neccesary we will gladly offer an English moderation.
The German Association for Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology (Fachverband Judaistik / Jüdische Studien / Jüdische Theologie in Deutschland e.V.) awards the Arnold Goldberg Prize amounting to 1,000 Euros on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. This prize recognizes an outstanding dissertation (magna or summa cum laude) in the fields of Judaic Studies, Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology submitted at a German university. A dissertation can be nominated by either the doctoral candidate or the primary supervisor for the Arnold Goldberg Prize. The nominating individual must be a member of the association. Deadline for application: May 31, 2024. Details in German
The organizing committee of the 29th Annual Jewish American and Holocaust Literature (JAHLit) Symposium welcomes individual and panel proposals that address the subjects of Jewish, Jewish-American, Holocaust literature and culture. Especially topics in critical and theoretical approaches to Jewish literature and film are invitied. They could include: new voices in Jewish American literature, transnational Jewish literature, Jewish literature of the Americas, Holocaust literature, the Holocaust in film and television, new media including graphic novels and digital media. The Symposion will take place in October 27-29, 2024 in Miami Beach. Deadline for submission of proposals: July 31, 2024. DETAILS
The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris, France, is hiring one postdoctoral research associate in Hebrew Palaeography, to work in the project Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age. The successful position holder will be responsible for annotating palaeographical samples of Medieval Hebrew manuscripts for the online Hebrew Palaeography Album (HebrewPal). Deadline for application: May 30, 2024. DETAILS VIA EAJS
Die Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt mit einer Befristung auf 2 Jahre eine*n Referent*in für Fundraising und Sponsoring, Freundeskreis und Pressearbeit („Funds and Friends“), unter anderem für die Planung, Koordination, Organisation und Evaluation neuer Fundraising-Maßnahmen. Bewerbungsschluss: 14. April 2024. MEHR
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo invites applications for a tenured position as Associate Professor in Hebrew Bible with a focus on its reception in settings of inter-cultural and inter-religious encounters. Deadline for application: April 28, 2024. DETAILS
The Azrieli Foundation invites applications for the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research at Israeli Universities in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences, for cadidates in all countries except Israel. Deadline for application: May 9, 2024. DETAILS
The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a Full Professor of Jewish Studies with focus on Source History and Cultural History. The professorship should mainly be interested in Jewish texts and Jewish cultural history in the context of the rabbinic period (70 to 1000 AD) which is of central importance. Deadline for application: April 15, 2024. DETAILS
The Association for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 56th AJS conference. For detailed information about types of sessions, subject area divisions and the submission process see the Call for Papers. The Conference will take place online on December 15-19, 2024 online. Deadline: May 2, 2024. DETAILS
Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden invites applications for a One-Year Jewish Studies Program, dedicated to the study and interdisciplinary interpretation of the textual sources that have served as the wellsprings of Jewish civilization. Deadline for applications: April 14, 2024. DETAILS
International Conference on Jews in Krakow: History and Culture in Kraków in September 23-25, 2024, organizers are interested in case studies and micro-historical studies, as well as broader syntheses and particularly encourages papers dealing with methodological questions. Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024. MEHR VIA JEWISH HERITAGE EUROPE
The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main invites applications for the Head of the Education and Outreach-Programs department. The position involves personnel management, overseeing all administrative processes, and conceptualizing, organizing, and executing events. A university degree in Humanities or Social Sciences with a focus on Educational Sciences is required. Payment is according to EGr. 13 TVöD; Full/Part Time possible. Deadline for application: April 12, 2024. DETAILS IN GERMAN
The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for visiting PhD Fellowships 2024/2025. Applications will be accepted from candidates from any discipline from non-Israeli universities who work on topics relevant to the Institute’s research interests, such as Modern Jewish and non-Jewish minority politics, Israel’s statehood, sovereignty, and its relationship with the Jewish and Israeli diaspora, and Forced displacement, history of human rights and humanitarianism. Deadline for application: April 5, 2024. DETAILS
The Taube Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the field of history/literary or cultural studies in the project “Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880-1939”. PhD in Humanities in history, literary studies or cultural studies is required, with reading skills in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Polish and Russian. Deadline for application. March 22, 2024. DETAILS
We are happy to announce that our new portal is online!
Over the past few months, we have migrated our portal to a new technical platform and refreshed its design. Additionally, you'll find here the latest job postings, event notifications, and information about new projects. The portal also offers additional information and insights into our various services.
As usual you will find our Portal the FID catalog , along with access to our FID licenses.
Maintaining the portal is a work in progress; we will continuously expand its content and functionality.
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The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg inivites MA students, doctoral researchers, Postdocs and external participants to apply for the summer school on Hebrew Codicology, that will take place in Hamburg on July 15-19, 2024. Deadline for application: March 31, 2024. Details
The Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa is offering a doctoral scholarship of €20,000 per year (€1,600 per month) for a period of three years, totaling €60,000, starting in October 2024. The funds are provided by the German partner cities (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Mainz and Mannheim) of the City of Haifa as a contribution to the Archive of German-Speaking Jewry in Israel (Yekkes). The scholarship is dedicated to the research on “German-speaking Jewry in Israel". Deadline for applications: March 31, 2024. Details
The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association invites abstracts for the international conference “Thinking Beyond the ‘Soviet Jewry’ Narrative. Localism, Diversity, and Subjective Experiences of Jews in the Soviet Republics under Late Socialism”. The conference will take place in Marburg, Germany in October 9-10, 2024. Details
The Hochschule für Jüdische Studien / University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg (HfJS) seeks to appoint a visiting professor to the Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund Chair in Jewish Studies for the academic term 1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025. The compensation corresponds to
W2 level. Deadline: April 19, 2024. Details
#CfA Das Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur und die Volkswagen Stiftung und das fördert Kooperationsprojekte in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zwischen Forschenden aus Niedersachsen und Israel. Bewerbungsschluss: 31. Mai 2024. Details
der Fakultät für Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften der LMU München ist zum Wintersemester 2024/25 befristet bis zum Sommersemester 2028 (31.08.2028) eine Vertretungsprofessur (W3, 100%) für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur zu besetzen. Schwerpunkt von Forschung und Lehre ist die jüdische Geschichte der Neuzeit. Grundlegende Kenntnisse der hebräischen Sprache werden vorausgesetzt. Bewerbungsschluss: 31. März 2024. mehr
The Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Bern invites applications for a term-limited assistant and doctoral position (100%) starting from August 1, 2024. Candidates will be tasked with the development of a dissertation project, preferably in the field of Antiquity or the Middle Ages. Deadline: February 29, 2024. Details