News
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies invites applications for the 2025-2026 fellowship Diversifying the Israeli Diaspora. The hybrid fellowship will feature a virtual workshop series throughout the year, and an in-person conference at Brandeis University.
It aims to explore the dynamic and evolving experiences of Israeli identity beyond Israel, as it intersects with new trends of migration, and multilayered cultures in diverse destinations. It also analyzes the ways this identity intertwines with the increasingly diverse Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian diasporas, as well as other diasporas of Israeli residents without Israeli citizenship.
Deadline for applications: May 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Association of Jewish Libraries assists members with the expense of attending AJL’s annual conferences in the form of the Judy R. Cohn Conference Support.
EBSCO Scholarship for AJL Conference Attendance
EBSCO Information Services provides funding annually to subsidize conference expenses for first time attendees and current students or recent (within two years) graduates of programs related to the work of AJL (library and information science, Judaic or Hebrew studies, etc).
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe
Funds have been made available by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe to support conference attendance by European Judaica librarians. Applicants are expected to participate actively in the conference (e.g., presenting, planning programs), and will be asked to report on their conference activities.
KarBen Scholarship for AJL Conference Attendance
The KarBen Scholarship, funded by Kar-Ben Publishing in honor of founders Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler, awards a scholarship for AJL conference attendance to an AJL member who demonstrates dedication to Jewish children’s literature and library services.
AJL Student Scholarship/Subvention Award
AJL offers a combined academic scholarship with conference subvention of $3,000 to a student enrolled in or accepted into an accredited graduate school of library and information science. AJL membership is not required.
Deadline for applications: May 7, 2025 | DETAILS
The Marcell and Maria Roth Center for Research on the History and Culture of Jews in Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Center of Jewish History and Culture, Institute of History, University of Rzeszów, the Galicia Jewish Museum Kraków and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv invite proposals for the IV International Conference Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025. Contributions may cover a wide range of topics concerning Galician Jews.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
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 in New York between November 17–23, 2025. This call is open to scholars from different disciplines working on a variety of topics centred around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Shalom Foundation and Center of Yiddish Culture invite you to a three-week meeting with the Yiddish language and Jewish history, literature, culture, and art in Warsaw Muranow June 30 till July 18, 2025. Focus will be thematically on the Jewish press.
The program will include language courses at four levels, lectures on the Yiddish language and culture, workshops, tutorials and other activities.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025
Scholarship application deadline: April 30, 2025
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025 via Zoom. 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.
The cost of the school is £290 per student for 27 hours of language instruction, including all video recordings of the lectures.
Deadline for applications: July 11, 2025 | DETAILS
The German Historical Institute in Warsaw (GHIW), in collaboration with the Polish Studies Association (PSA) and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN), is organizing a network meeting for scholars at all career stages working on Polish topics in June 12-13, 2025. They invite English-speaking scholars (doctoral students, postdocs, professors) from Poland, Germany, and elsewhere who will be in Poland in mid-June to join them.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg of the University of Frankfurt am Main seeks to fill a vacancy for a fixed-term position as library assistant (E 10 TV-G-U) at the FID Jewish Studies for a period of 15 months.
As part of the Specialised Information Services for Science Program of the DFG, the JCS University Library is building up subject-specific supra-regional information infrastructures and developing them further in close cooperation with the respective subject communities. Here you will be responsible for:
- librarian support of the services offered by the FID Jewish Studies, e.g. the subject repository JudaicaDoc;
- Revrit (automatic procedure for retransliteration of Hebraica title data) and the LOD service JudaicaLink;
- indexing of literature and e-resources of Jewish Studies;
- creation and maintenance of concordances between subject-specific classification systems and common national and international classifications to optimise subject indexing (RVK, DDC, Library of Congress Subject Headings);
- creation and processing of authority files (persons, corporate bodies, titles of works);
- librarian support in advising researchers as part of the FID Jewish Studies as well as target-group-specific user training;
- librarian support for cooperation with national and international partners of the FID Jewish Studies.
You fulfill the following requirements:
- completed training for the higher service at academic libraries (Diplombibliothekar*in) or as Diplom-Informationswirt*in (FH) with a degree in library studies (FH) or as Fachwirt*in für Informationsdienste
- good English language skills
- good knowledge of the library system, preferably with experience in the field of special collections
- interest in research-related library services
- willingness to familiarize yourself with the requirements of library services for Jewish Studies
- good knowledge of common metadata standards for written cultural heritage, in particular cataloging rules (RDA), the rulesof the DNB's Integrated Authority File (GND) and common library classification systems (DDC, RVK)
- good knowledge of library management systems (e.g. Pica module CBS)
- strong ability to work in a team, high sense of responsibility and open-mindedness towards new challenges
We would be delighted if we could win you over for this position and for working with us.
Please submit your application documents by May 13, 2025, quoting the reference number 07/2025, preferably by e-mail to:
jobs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (please in a single PDF format) or in writing to the directorate of the University Library Johann Christian
Senckenberg, Freimannplatz 1, 60325 Frankfurt am Main. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Kerstin von der Krone (K.vonderKrone@ub.uni-frankfurt.de).
Lecture with Yair Wallach on Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem focusing on the transformation of written language in the city's streets. It investigates the emergence of enmity between Hebrew and Arabic, and the modern transformation of text into a tool of exclusion and conquest. It shows that erasure is not just used against the "enemy" but also of one's own traditions.
Registration required
April 29, 2025 19:00 CET | DETAILS
Dr. Veronique Sina, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, organises an interdisciplinary workshop on Jewish Visual Culture. Images of Jews and Being Jewish in art and media at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt June 12-13, 2025. The focus is on artistic media representations of Judaism and Jewishness and the role of Jewish Visual Culture Studies in German-speaking countries.
The event is part of the DFG-funded research project Queering Jewishness – Jewish Queerness. Diskursive Inszenierungen von Geschlecht und ‚jüdischer Differenz’ in (audio-)visuellen Medien at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Registration required.
The American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum and the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center; co-sponsored by YIVO invite to a symposium on Music, Sound, and Antisemitism May 28-29 and June 4-5, 2025.
Registration required
The Faculty of Arts, Department of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a Professorship (W 2) for Jewish Studies with a Focus on Inter-Religious Debates (20th/21st centuries).
Deadline for applications: May 11, 2025 | DETAILS
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
The Faculty of the Humanities of the University of Freiburg invites applications for a Full Professorship (W 3) for Jewish Studies (focus on the religious and cultural history of Judaism in the Near and Middle East in modern times) - Succession Oberhänsli-Widmer - in the Department of Oriental Studies.
Deadline for applications May 16, 2025 | DETAILS
The Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics invites applications for its international Summer School The Monotheistic Interreligious Moment – Past and Present for graduate students at Goethe University Frankfurt, September 7–17, 2025. Its focus will be on interreligious dynamics across a broad array of historical, systematic, and political dimensions ranging from antiquity to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg organizes the lecture series Philosophy by Hand, that reflects on the interaction between philosophical ideas and their expression in material form. The premise is that philosophical manuscripts are not mere contains of text, but rather places where philosophy happens. This perspective leads to new questions, new methods, and new forms of cooperation among disciplines. Each lecture will convey in a friendly and engaging manner the causal role manuscripts play in philosophical activity in different languages, eras, and cultural spheres.
Registration required.
From 28.04.2025 to 15.07.2025, 4:15PM-5:45PM CET | DETAILS
Der Lehrstuhl für Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte der LMU München besetzt die Stelle einer Akad. Rätin/eines Akad. Rats. Einstellungsvoraussetzung sind eine Promotion im Bereich der Holocaust- oder vergleichenden Genozidforschung bzw. Gewaltgeschichte des 20. Jhds. und eine anschließende mindestens zweijährige, hauptberuflich ausgeübte wiss. Tätigkeit.
Bewerbungsfrist: 16. Mai 2025 | DETAILS
Die 15. Europäische Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems findet vom 6. bis 11. Juli 2025 statt. Sie ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung der Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, des Zentrums für Jüdische Studien der Universität Basel, des Instituts für Judaistik an der Universität Wien, der Professur für Judaistik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, der Sigi-Feigel-Gastprofessur für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Zürich, des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck, des Jewish Studies Program der Central European University in Budapest/Wien und dem Jüdischen Museum Hohenems. Die Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems 2025 steht Studierenden aller Fachbereiche offen. Bevorzugt angenommen werden Studierende der beteiligten Universitäten in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Innsbruck, München, Wien und Zürich.
Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Mai 2025 | DETAILS
Das Bundesarchiv sucht Werkvertragsnehmende um biografische Angaben verfolgter Jüdinnen und Juden wissenschaftlich auszuwerten, neue Informationen in die Datenbank Liste der jüdischen Einwohner im Deutschen Reich 1933-1945 in den Grenzen vom 31.12.1937 einzuarbeiten und so ihre persönlichen Schicksale zu dokumentieren.
Bewerbungsfrist 23. April 2025, 11:30 Uhr | DETAILS
Im Fachbereich III der Universität Trier ist voraussichtlich zum 01.07.2025 in dem von der DFG drittmittelfinanzierten Forschungsprojekt „Aschkenas in neuen Lebenswelten. Akteure, Praktiken und Räume in der jüdischen Geschichte Mitteleuropas während des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts“, Teilprojekt 3: „Extra muros, intra muros“ die Stelle eines/einer Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in (EG 13 TV-L, 65%, befristet für die Dauer von vier Jahren gem. WissZeitVG) zu besetzen.
In Hinblick auf die Erkenntnisziele der FOR sollen jüdische Urbanitätserfahrungen an den Grenzen von städtischer und vorstädtischer Sphäre ins Auge gefasst werden, aus denen sich möglicherweise Schlüsse über das jüdisch-christliche Verhältnis ableiten lassen. Die Projektarbeit erfordert umfangreiche Archivarbeiten zu kommunalen Überlieferungen vornehmlich des süddeutschen Raums.
Bewerbungsfrist: 24. April 2025 | DETAILS
Die National Library of Israel bietet einen "Fair Use"-Fernzugriff auf ihre digitalisierten Archivbestände, mehr als 100.000 Mappen und rund 3,4 Millionen Digitalisate, an. Der Zugang ist nach der Registrierung auf einen Monat beschränkt.
Die Entwicklung der Applikation wurde durch das Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ am Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), Universität Hamburg initiiert und finanziert.
The editors of AJS Perspectives invite scholars, researchers, artists and practitioners to submit proposals for articles exploring various aspects of Jewish Studies in today's academy, in light of contemporary realities and challenges. This special issue seeks to examine the path ahead for Jewish education in college and university settings, and outlines for securing the future of Jewish Studies.
AJS Perspectives welcomes proposals for articles that discuss and analyze the future of Jewish Studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Deadline for proposals: May 5, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jacob Robinson Institute invites submissions for an international workshop exploring the multifaceted and far-reaching impacts of the Holocaust reparations agreement signed on September 10, 1952, in Luxembourg. The workshop seeks to explore the complex legacies of the 1952 Holocaust reparations agreement, providing a comprehensive examination of its wide-ranging effects. Contributions on topics concerning the agreement’s impact are welcome. The workshop takes place at the Ben-Gurion University Campus in Sde-Boker, Israel, from September 2, to September 4, 2025.
Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2025 | DETAILS
The Hadasssah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University invites guests to a panel with speakers presenting on different aspects of resistance followed by a discussion. Speakers include Karen Frostig, Debra Kaufman, Ornit Barkai and a presenter speaking on behalf of Sarah Silberstein Swartz, z”l, a writer and memoirist who recently passed away.
After a short break, the documentary Resistance - They Fought Back will be screened and followed by a talkback with Paula S. Apsell and Karen Frostig.
Registration is required.
April 24, 2025 at 6.15 p.m. CET | Hybrid | DETAILS
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for a new hybrid research fellowship as a part of the Broadening Academia Initiative, a larger initiative designed to support the production of scholarship on the Holocaust by scholars who are untenured, contingent, or working outside of academia. The fellowship includes 6 months of remote access to the Museum’s digitized archival collections and 1 week of in-person research at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend and $3,000 travel allowance to cover one week of lodging, per diem, and RT transportation from the applicant’s home institution to the Shapell Center.
Deadline for applications: May 23, 2025 | DETAILS
The World Union of Jewish Studies offers Ulpan Scholarships for intensive Hebrew language programmes in Israel during the summer of 2025. Scholarships are available for European students and early career scholars of Jewish Studies and are funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. Applicants for Ulpan Scholarships must apply both to the educational institution for the study program as well as to the World Union of Jewish Studies for the grant.
Deadline for applications: April 22, 2025 | DETAILS
The YIVO in cooperation with the Vilnius University and Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania invite submissions for the YIVO 100th Anniversary Conference, October 19-21, 2025. The organizers invite scholars at all stages of their careers to explore the contributions of YIVO to Jewish scholarship, culture, education, and heritage; the role of YIVO’s scholars and supporters in social and cultural networks; and their relationship with non-Jewish academic and government institutions. Discussions of YIVO’s symbolic role both historically and in present-day Vilnius as well as reflections on YIVO’s historical impact, its legacy in contemporary Jewish studies, and its possible role as a model for approaches to preserving and promoting Jewish heritage globally are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: May 5, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago invites applications for a position as Instructional Professor (open rank) in Modern Hebrew starting on September 1, 2025. Depending on qualification and experience, the position will be that of the rank of an Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor for a minimum of 2 years. Responsibilities for the position include both teaching and service duties.
Deadline for applications: April 7, 2025 | DETAILS
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg invite proposals for papers for the international conference “Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg” at the University of Strasbourg. It takes place June 16-17, 2025. The conference focuses on Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg during the sixteenth century. The organizers are providing a list of sixteenth-century Hebraists and of possible topics.
Die Gemeinde Veitshöchheim sucht eine wissenschaftliche, inhaltliche und organisatorische Leitung des Jüdischen Kulturmuseums. Die Stelle ist unbefristet im Umfang von 20 Wochenstunden zu vergeben. Zu den Aufgaben gehört die Betreuung des Sammlungsbestandes in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Genisaprojekt Veitshöchheim, die Weiterentwicklung des Museums und wissenschaftliche Erforschung sowie Herausgabe von Publikationen und Präsentationen. Vertiefte Kenntnisse der jüdischen Geschichte, Kultur und hebräischen Sprache werden vorausgesetzt.
Bewerbungsfrist: 31. März 2025 | Details
The University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg is seeking to fill the position of an Academic Assistant (m/f/d) in the field of Jewish Philosophy. Starting from October 2025, it is a fixed-term, full-time position for the duration of 36 months. Research will focus on the migration of knowledge from Provence to Italy and the Hebrew-Jewish philosophical tradition, ca. 1400-1600. Working knowledge of Hebrew and a doctorate in the field of Jewish philosophy are required.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The Moses Mendelssohn Center (MMZ) at the University of Potsdam awards Guest Fellowships for European-Jewish studies stays for up to four months. Applicants must be at least postdoctoral fellows working on a project in one of the fields related to research at the MMZ, and be proficient in both English and German. A public guest lecture is expected during the stay as well as an internal presentation about the ongoing research in the “internal colloquium” of the MMZ. PostDocs and established researchers are invited to apply.
Deadline for applications: April 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jacob Robinson Institute is offering up two post-doctoral fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Applications are welcome from candidates from any discipine whose research aligns with the Institute’s focus. Fellows may not be employed elsewhere and are required to submit a manuscript for a peer-reviewed publication subsequent to their research stay at the Institute.
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2025 | Details
The Heidelberg School of Jewish Studies seeks to fill the position of an Academic Assistant (m/f/d) in the Department of Jewish Philosophy on a temporary basis starting in October 2025, totalling a 50% part-time job. The position serves the purpose of academic qualification. Knowledge of Hebrew and proficiency in English is required.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The University of Wrocław invites applications for an Assistant Professorship (post-doc) at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies. The position belongs to the project “Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880 and 1939”. Expertise in Jewish culture and history in the Russian Empire is required. Candidates must have received their doctorate in 2018 or later. Language requirements are reading fluency in Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian as well as at least B2 level in English.
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2025 | Details
Between 21.03.2025 and 27.03.2025 there may be problems accessing the Digital Collections and searching in the FID Jewish Studies search portal due to a server relocation..
The interlibrary loan service is not available during this period.
The international Leo Baeck Fellowship Program awards fellowships to doctoral students who carry out research into the field of German-Jewish history and culture. We welcome projects on any period or field (including literature, philosophy, history, cultural studies), and any region (such as Europe, Israel, the Americas). The Studienstiftung runs the program with financial support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and in cooperation with the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow. The Fellowship Program is open to doctoral candidates of any nationality, studying at any university. Working languages are German and English.
Deadline for applications: April 21, 2025 | DETAILS
The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) currently invites submissions for their 57th Annual Conference. It takes place in Washington DC from December 14 until December 16, 2025. Session types include workshops, roundtables, panels, and more. They can be held in either English or Hebrew. Submissions can be made by current AJS members.
Deadline for submissions: May 6, 2025 | DETAILS
The Feinstein Center at Temple University announces its annual summer fellowship to support research in the American Jewish experience. Predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars studying any area of American Jewish life are eligible for the grant of up to $4,000. Applications are preferably submitted via e-mail.
Deadline for applications: April 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 2025-2026 Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship. Applicants must be active members of the clergy who have demonstrated serious intellectual and academic ability, interest and energy in the pursuit of scholarship in Jewish studies. The Fellowship allows the recipient to begin, continue or complete research in an area of Jewish scholarship.
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) and the French consortium DISTAM (Digital Studies Africa, Asia, Middle East) invite applications for the first Franco-German summer school “Open(ing) Science? Digital Humanities in Area Studies” in Leipzig, July 7-11, 2025. During the summer school, hands-on workshops will be combined with lectures, roundtables, and project presentations. Social events and excursions will foster networking. The summer school mainly addresses PhD candidates.
Deadline for applications: March 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jewish Studies Program and Department of History at the University of Delaware seek candidates for the inaugural Chaiken Postdoctoral Researcher in Jewish History for the academic year 2025-2026. The Postdoctoral Researcher will teach one course per semester, conduct research in their area of expertise, and lead a scholarly symposium. A PhD in History, History of Religion, Jewish Studies, or a related humanities discipline with a concentration in Jewish history is required.
Deadline for applications: April 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights offers up to two visiting PhD fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Applications are welcome from candidates in any discipline, affiliated with non-Israeli universities, whose research aligns with the Institute’s focus on e.g. modern Jewish and non-Jewish minority politics, compensation and reparation to Jewish and non-Jewish victims of grave human rights abuses, Israel’s statehood, sovereignty, and its relationship with the Jewish and Israeli diaspora. Fellows are expected to participate in the Institute’s academic activities.
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich–Berlin (IfZ) has a vacancy from 1 June 2025 for a Postdoctoral Researcher within the project “H-DIARIES – The first testimonies of the Holocaust written by Jewish victims. Analysis, inventory, mapping”.
The French-German research project is jointly being carried out by the Center for Holocaust Studies and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and is funded for three years by the DFG and the ANR.
Deadline for applications: March 23, 2025 | DETAILS
The Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in the field of Jewish History of Austria.
As part of the Ashkenazi linguistic and cultural area, the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states define the geographical focus of this tenure track professorship, which is dedicated to the history of Jewish culture, society and ideas in the period between 1500 and 1930. Applicants must a doctoral degree/ PhD and have two years of international research experience. It is expected that within three years the successful candidate acquires proficiency in German sufficient for teaching and participation in university committees.
Deadline for applications: March 18, 2025 | DETAILS
Due to maintenance work, there will probably be problems accessing the FID licenses on March 4, 2025.
The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East
and the Misgav Yerushalayim Center for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invite applications for a workshop on “The Book and the Library among the Jews of Islamic Lands” at the Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, September 14–15, 2025. The workshop will address manuscripts and printed works from the Middle Ages until the modern era among Jewish communities throughout the Islamicate world, Asia, Ethiopia, and Sephardic diasporas all over the world. Presentations and panels may be held in Hebrew and English.
Deadline for applications: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna invites paper proposals for the 3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop on May 27, 2025. The Workshop is part of the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Young Scholars Awards for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience. The focus will be on Jewish experiences across the Mediterranean.
Papers exploring Jewish life, its history, traditions and transformations in the Mediterranean world, from late antiquity to modern times are welcome. The workshop offers a platform for scholarly exchange and discussion, with a focus on PhD and early-career researchers, while welcoming participants at all career stages.
Deadline for applications: March 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The editors of the Open Editions Journal Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines invite submissions to a special edition on “Jews as Object of the Social Sciences”. Invited are historians, sociologists and anthropologists from various disciplines of the humanities to contribute to this issue on the place of “Jews” in the history of the social sciences. The aim would be to analyze the role and place that this object, or perhaps rather these specific objects, have had, or even still have, in these sciences. Articles may be written in French and English.
Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, invites applications for the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Associate. The appointment will be for the academic year 2025–26 (July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026), with renewal possible for a second year. Focus of interest should be the study of antisemitism or Israel studies. Candidates must hold a PhD in Jewish Studies or a related field by July 1, 2025, and must have received it no earlier than 2022.
Deadline for applications: March 16, 2025 | DETAILS
Der Fachverband Judaistik / Jüdische Studien / Jüdische Theologie in Deutschland e.V. unterstützt MA-Studierende und Promovierende bei der Teilnahme an Konferenzen und Workshops sowie bei Forschungsaufenthalten im In- und Ausland. MA-Studierende werden bevorzugt gefördert. Bewerber*innen müssen Mitglied im Fachverband sein im Fall von Promovierenden, MA-Studierende müssen von einem Mitglied empfohlen werden.
Bewerbungsfrist: 15. März 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in Hebrew & Jewish Studies to begin August 1, 2025. This is a full-time, non-tenure-eligible faculty position in the temporary title series with an appointment period of one year with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Candidates must demonstrate language competency in Biblical Hebrew to teach elementary-level language courses. Knowledge of other Second Temple Period languages such as Greek or Aramaic is also highly desirable.
Deadline for applications: February 28, 2025, or until the position is filled │ DETAILS
The Case Western Reserve University invites applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute “Between Memory and the Archive: Jewish Print Culture” taking place in New York on June 15-27, 2025, at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Summer Institute explores the historical development of the design and use of Hebrew typefaces in a variety of genres, from the early modern period to the present. There are two mandatory virtual pre-Institute sessions on Tuesday, May 6th and Wednesday, June 4.
Applicants must be familiar with the Hebrew alphabet and with one Jewish language (e.g. a language that deploys Hebrew script such as Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, etc.).
Deadline for applications: March 5, 2025 │ DETAILS
The editors of the publication series “Jüdische Gegenwart. Beiträge zu jüdischen Lebenswelten in Deutschland und Europa” (“Jewish Presence. Contributions to Jewish Life in Germany and Europe”), affiliated with the DFG-funded Priority Program 2357 "Jewish Cultural Heritage", welcome submissions on the topic of authorizations of Jewish cultural heritage. The contributions will shed light on how Jewish cultural heritage is interpreted and represented in different contexts and what challenges and opportunities this presents for Jewish communities, researchers, cultural policy, and state actors. Invited are all interested scholars who are researching Jewish cultural heritage in the broadest sense and are in their early doctoral and postdoctoral phases.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 23, 2025
Deadline for submission of articles: June 16, 2025
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University–New Brunswick invites applications for a Visiting Scholar for the 2025-2026 academic year for a one-semester (fall or spring) post-doctoral appointment. Preference will be given to a scholar whose work intersects with visual and material culture, book history, and book arts (e.g. typography, bookbinding, papermaking, printing, scribal arts – broadly conceived – in Jewish life. The scholar is expected to be in residence in the university area.
Deadline for applications: March 14, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe in cooperation with the Allard Pierson of the University of Amsterdam invite applications for a week-long seminar for early-career professionals in Jewish heritage and graduate students contemplating a career in the field. The seminar combines academic presentations, hands-on workshops, case studies, and site visits with experts working in museums, archives, libraries, and research universities. It takes place in Amsterdam from August 24-29, 2025.
Deadline for applications: April 8, 2025 │ DETAILS
The German Studies Association (GSA) in cooperation with the DFG funded project “Understanding Written Artefacts” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg invites applications for the seminar "Wandering Artefacts: Dispersion, Digitization and Multilingualism of German-Jewish Archives" at the 49th annual German Studies Association conference in Arlington, VA, September 25-28, 2025. The seminar convenes scholars who are working in and reflecting about German-Jewish archives located across the world. What role has the archive played in scholarship on German-Jewish literary and cultural history, and how is it shaping new directions in the field? The organizers are particularly interested in the potentials and challenges represented by the digitization of archives and in the question of multilingualism in the archive.
Deadline for applications: February 19, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Center for Jewish History (CJH) invites proposals for a new Scholars Working Group to begin in September 2025. The CJH aims to provide a forum where scholars at all career stages can share their research and ideas and ultimately create an interdisciplinary community. The Center welcomes proposals on a particular topic or question to be explored in the scholars working group from a variety of historical, disciplinary and contextual perspectives.
Deadline for proposals: March 3, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Hans Böckler Foundation is funding up to six doctoral scholarships for the first funding phase of the interdisciplinary doctoral program Gebrochene Traditionen? Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Musik im NS-Deutschland (PK 057).
The aim of the doctoral program is to expand knowledge of Jewish cultural life in a Jewish cultural sphere within Nazi Germany that became increasingly segregated since 1933 from the perspectives of philosophy, literature, music and religious studies. Researchers of the program thus join international efforts of Nazi and Holocaust research.
Deadline for applications: April 28, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University welcomes applications for M.A. Scholarships in Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the study of antisemitism, beginning in fall 2025.
M.A. Programs
- M.A. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies
- M.A. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies with a concentration in Museum Studies
- M.P.A.-M.A. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies / Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy (Dual Degree)
- M.S.I.L.-M.A. in Hebrew and Judaic Studies / Library Information Science (Dual Degree)
Deadline for applications: March 1, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Central European University (CEU) in Budapest invites applications for its eight-day, intensive summer course on June 26–July 4, 2025. The courses, workshops, seminars, lectures and film screenings will investigate the genealogy of the era of the witness, focusing on the emergence of Holocaust testimony as the model for eyewitness documentation of 20th and 21st century atrocities, and its impact on efforts to record and represent subsequent human rights abuses and acts of mass violence. The program encourages applications from students in multiple disciplines at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels as well as early career oral history and digital humanities scholars and practitioners interested in learning more about the genealogy and impact of Holocaust testimony as a genre.
Deadline for applications: February 14, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Department of Theology at Uppsala University invites applications for the Torsten Söderberg Professorship in Jewish Thought in collaboration with the Paideia Institute. The core subject of Jewish thought is the study of pivotal Jewish texts. The focus is on the interplay between textual interpretation and the history of ideas, and how these have shaped Jewish life and culture. For this reason, rabbinic literature and its interpretive tradition, including its relation to the Hebrew Bible, play a central role. Eligibility for the role requires the documented ability to teach in English and to teach in Swedish within two years.
Deadline for applications: February 27, 2025 │ DETAILS
PaRDeS, Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. invites submissions for its 31st issue that explore various aspects of the power of images in Jewish history and culture. Contributions are welcome from fields including, but not limited to, history and art, literature and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology as well as visual history. Potential papers may focus on any figure, place or period related to Jewish visual history.
Deadline for submission: February, 24, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe is now accepting applications for its European Jewish Heritage and Jewish Communal Life grants. Funding is starting in September 2025.
Applications from a wide array of organisations across Europe including archives, libraries, museums, heritage institutions and Jewish communal organisations are welcome.
Deadline for applications; February 19, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Leibniz Research Network Central and Eastern Europe offers the Write East scholarship program to media professionals interested in Central and Eastern Europe to spend a week-long stay at one of a number of institutes. Visits to other institutes within the network can also be arranged over the course of the fellowship. The stays will take place in 2025 and will be funded by the Leibniz Association.
Deadline for applications: February 28, 2025 │ DETAILS
POLIN Museum invites papers for a conference on Reconstructing Jewish Life in Poland and Central Europe after the Second World War. The conference will focus on the phenomenon of revived Jewish life in Poland, comparing similar and different developments in other countries of the region during 1945-1955. Particular attention will be paid to the situation of Jewish communities in the countries that became part of the Soviet bloc, as well as in Germany, where Jewish social and political life also thrived in the DP camps. Researchers at all stages of their research career – from PhD students to full professors – are invited to apply.
Deadline for applications: March 1, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies is seeking an Academic Assistant in the Department of Talmud, Codices and Rabbinic Literature. The position serves to enhance the candidate’s academic qualifications. A completed academic degree in the field of Jewish Studies with a focus on rabbinic literature is required.
Deadline for applications: February 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in cooperation with the Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place project invite applications for a two-day workshop in Toronto from June 9-10, 2025. The workshop will train students as well as early career scholars in paleography and the analysis of manuscript annotations in printed books.
Deadline for applications: February 24, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Jüdisches Forum für Demokratie und gegen Antisemitismus e.V. (JFDA) is seeking a project manager for the project Jüdisches Recherche-, Feldbeobachtungs-, Informations- und Bildungszentrum, which is funded by the State of Berlin. Tasks include the planning and implementation of field observations, the analysis, documentation and creation of contributions in the form of texts, images and videos as well as research and monitoring of current manifestations of anti-Semitism and group-related misanthropy.
Deadline for applications: February 18, 2025 │ DETAILS
The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris invites applications for two doctoral/post-doctoral scholarships in the field of Hebrew palaeography and manuscript studies. The successful candidates on a doctoral level will prepare their doctorate under the professorship of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies and join the team 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). On a post-doctoral level, candidates will work part-time on a monograph and part-time on the implementation of the palaeographical annotations of the digital Hebrew Palaeography Album (HebrewPal).
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 │ DETAILS
At Leipzig University and Dubnow Institute in the International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 6 PhD positions are available. 5 PhD students will be employed through Leipzig University, one additional doctoral researcher through the Dubnow Institute. The interdisciplinary program brings together expertise in modern European and Jewish history, German and Slavic literary studies, philosophy, cultural studies, folklore and performance studies, and art history.
Deadline for applications: March 14, 2025 │ DETAILS
The POLIN Museum invites applications for a week-long program aimed at early-career scholars working in Jewish Studies or related fields to take part in workshops and field visits. The Summer School takes place in Warsaw between July 21 and 28, 2025. Participants will be challenged to present their work, take constructive feedback, and give feedback to others. During the training sessions, expert guest speakers will provide instruction while also imploring participants to use what they have learned in practice on the spot, e.g. constructing project abstracts for grants.
Deadline for applications March 3, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft is awarding the Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize and the Arno Lustiger Prize for research on the topic of Jewish life in Frankfurt am Main. The prizes intend to encourage research of Frankfurt's Jewish history and to contribute to an increased public awareness of Frankfurt's Jewish history.
The Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize is awarded for an outstanding academic work on Frankfurt's Jewish history. It is endowed with ten thousand Euros.
The Arno Lustiger Prize honors outstanding work/research projects at various academic levels or independent research and is endowed with three thousand Euros.
Deadline for applications: May 20, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages (OSRJL) at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites applications for a two-part online (Zoom) workshop on classical Judeo-Arabic manuscripts. Three different texts from four manuscripts will be read in Yemenite and Sephardi scripts on March 5 and 20. Requirements are a very good command of Arabic as well as having studied classical Judeo-Arabic for at least one term.
Deadline for application: February 12, 2025 | Details
The Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne invites applications for a lecturer in Hebrew, beginning work in October. Requirements for the position are a native-language command of Hebrew or similar, an excellent command of German and/or English as well as a master’s degree in Hebrew, Jewish Studies or a related field.
Deadline for application: March 3, 2025 | Details
Dr Dean Irwin explores the Medieval Lincoln Jews Group’s efforts at identifying and writing biographies of all the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry. The talk highlights the sources for the Lincoln Jewry and traces the careers of some of the medieval inhabitants.
Historical Association (Zoom): February 27, 2025 at 8.30pm (CET)│ DETAILS
Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden offers a One-Year Jewish Studies Program with a focus on
- key aspects of the Jewish textual tradition
- seminars that address various aspects of Jewish studies
- multi-level Hebrew language course, a course on Talmud and Torah study, and a study trip to one of the European Jewish institutions
Deadline for application: January 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California invites papers for the 13th annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish conference titled Ladino In & Beyond the Home. The event takes place on Zoom on April 2, 2025.
The conference focuses on Ladino in and beyond the home, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. Papers that reflect on the ways in which gender, food, labor, and transmission are shaped by the homes and the histories and memories of Ladino speakers are welcome.
Deadline for submission: March 1, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies of New York University invites applications for a one-year clinical assistant professor of Yiddish language and culture. The appointee is expected to have a doctorate in a field related to Yiddish language and culture. The teaching load is six courses for the year.
Deadline for application: February 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
The editors of Ars Judaica, a peer-reviewed journal on Jewish art and visual culture, plan a special issue that will explore the history of Jewish visual culture by focusing on its creators, from antiquity to the early modern period across various Jewish diasporas.
The forthcoming special issue will focus on the identities of forgotten artisans, artists, builders, and architects, their biographies, the training or apprenticeship processes, and how all these informed their work.
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2025
The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration invites applications for a full-time tenure track position in Jewish Education. The position is at the assistant or associate professor rank, with an anticipated start date of June 1, 2025. A doctorate in Education, Special Education, Psychology, Jewish Studies, Jewish Education, Jewish Leadership, or a related area by the time of appointment is required.
Deadline for application: January 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
Am Mittwoch, den 23. January 2025 stellt das Cluster of Excellence - Understanding Written Artefacts am Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) an der Universität Hamburg die digitale Fassung des Jerusalemer Gästebuchs (1927-1966) von Miryam und Moshe Ya'akov Ben-Gavriêl vor.
Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2025, von 14:15–16:00 Uhr in der Warburgstraße 26, 20354 Hamburg, Raum 0001 (Pavilion) oder Online
Registration required!
The Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies invites applications for the position of Professor of Jewish Art (m/w/d) starting October 1, 2025.
The candidate will be expected to be able to analyze artistic activity within Jewish cultures methodologically with respect to theoretical discourses, as well as to discuss transcultural interrelations and the relationship between majority and minority, or the question of internal vs. external definitions of Jewish Art. Fluent Hebrew is required.
Deadline for applications: February 28, 2025. │ DETAILS
The Department of Historical Studies at the Central European University, Vienna offers an MA Specialization in Jewish Studies as well as several scholarships for PhD and MA students. Courses explore a broad range of historical periods, world regions, and methodologies approaching the past and the ways in which it shapes the present and future. The Jewish Studies Specialization will provide a Jewish prism through which to view European history. The department’s scholarships are awarded based on merit and regardless of nationality.
Deadline for applications: February 4, 2025 │ DETAILS
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives accepts applications for its 2025 fellowship program. In 2025, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives. Fellowship holders must submit a brief report on their research activities upon conclusion of their fellowships. Additionally, at JDC’s election, fellowship holders may be requested to give a virtual presentation.
Deadline for applications: February 7, 2025 │ DETAILS
Via EAJS: The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies invites proposals for presentations at an international conference on Sex, Gender, and Liberation of the Jews in Eastern and Central Europe (1860–1945) on June 24–25, 2025 in Uzhhorod, Ukraine . Focus will be on the status of Jewish women, which has been traditionally held to be inferior to that of men, according to religious prescriptions, even though in daily life, women in Ashkenazi society were often the head of large households which they ran single-handedly while their men’s existence was centered in the superior spiritual world, supposedly in direct continuity with pre-Diasporic times.
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2025 │ DETAILS
YIVO’s Shine Online offers free and everywhere available courses about Jewish history and culture with experts in the field. In its focus lies the 1,000 years of Jewish life and culture in Eastern Europe. This story of Ashkenazi civilization is an essential part of the larger Jewish story - a millennium rich in language, literature, art, music, and culture. These online courses are flexible and interactive, allowing users to study at their own pace and to delve into YIVO’s unique collection of resources.
Available courses:
Is Anything Okay? The History of Jews and Comedy in America This course delve into the history of Jewish comedy and its explosive development in the United States.
A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food. A course that explores Jewish food, with an emphasis on the Ashkenazi table.
Oh Mama, I’m in Love! The Story of the Yiddish Stage. This course focuses on the world of the Yiddish theater.
Folksong, Demons, and the Evil Eye: Folklore of Ashkenaz. In this course Prof. Itzik Gottesman and special guests explore the music, folktales, rituals, and superstitions of Jewish Eastern Europe
Discovering Ashkenaz: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe. Prof. Samuel Kassow discovers Ashkenaz, a survey of the 1,000-year history of Jews in Eastern Europe.
The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) offers a new fellowship program as part of the Volkswagen Momentum Project, “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies.” Junior and senior scholars engaged in research on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the Near and Middle East from the early modern to modern periods are invited to apply.
Deadline for applications: February 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Jewish Museum Berlin seeks a Research Associate for the Lecture Series Digital format (fixed-term, part-time, E 13 TVöD-Bund). The focus of the role is to organize, support and develop the Lecture Series Digital program.
Application deadline: December 29, 2024 │ DETAILS
The New York Public Library offers National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships to support advanced research at the library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to scholars researching the history, literature, and culture of peoples represented in collections accessible at the Schwarzman Building and to professionals in fields related to the library’s holdings, including librarianship and archives administration, special collections, photography, prints, and maps. The NEH Long-Term Fellowships support two fellows for nine months.
Deadline for applications: January 27, 2025 │ DETAILS
Via H-Judaic: Zoom Discussion Group on Jewish Historiography in Russia/Soviet Union - three Zoom sessions of 90 minutes each during the spring semester (dates and times to be set based on participants’ availability). The focus of the discussion group will be to examine Jewish historiography in Russia and the Soviet Union in consideration of multiple topical approaches. It is sponsored by Tulane University’s Jewish Studies Program, the Grant Center for the Study of American Jewry, and the Sizeler Family Chair at Tulane University. Participants will a receive a grant of $500.
Application deadline: January 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
The New York Public Library offers the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program to support advanced research at the library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Fellowships are open to Ph.D. candidates, post-doctoral scholars, and independent researchers with projects that would significantly benefit from research conducted on site at the Schwarzman Building. Projects requiring access to original materials including manuscripts, archives, books, photographs, prints, maps, newspapers, and journals will be given preference, but all worthy projects will be considered.
Application deadline: January 20, 2025 │ DETAILS
Mit dem 1. Januar 2025 entfällt der Zugriff auf das Visual History Archive für Nutzer*innen des FID Jüdische Studien.
Als registrierter Nutzer des FID Jüdische Studien haben Sie die Möglichkeit, sich beim FID Geschichtswissenschaften anzumelden und hier einen Online-Zugang zur Lizenz zu bekommen. Es ist keine erneute Registrierung notwendig, bitte vermeiden Sie diese.
Darüber hinaus besteht die Möglichkeit, im Lesesaal Spezialsammlungen der Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main auf die Datenbank zuzugreifen.
Sollten Sie Fragen haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an info@jewishstudies.de oder kontaktieren Sie den Lesesaal Spezialsammlungen: ls-spezialsammlungen@ub.uni-frankfurt.de
Via H-Judaic: The Committee on the Study of Religion (CSR) at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks applications for a College Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The applicant should hold a doctorate or terminal degree in Jewish Studies or related discipline. Facility with Hebrew is preferred.
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
The School of Jewish Theology at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Potsdam invites applications for the position of a Professorship (W 2) for Hebrew Bible and its Exegesis, to be filled by October 1, 2025.
The role’s focus is on Hebrew Bible and its exegesis in both teaching and research, placing the Bible in the context of its historical, social, religious, and cultural origins, critically engaging with the text while also addressing traditional Jewish reception and interpretation.
Deadline for applications: January 9, 2025 │ DETAILS
The School of Jewish Theology at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a Full Professorship for Rabbinic Literature and Halacha, to be filled by October 1, 2025.
The professorship focuses on the field of Rabbinics and requires specific expertise in the domain of Halacha, employing both traditional and innovative methodologies. The ability to connect the Talmud and Rabbinics with broader Jewish intellectual history will be demonstrated by candidates and contributes to the interdisciplinary scholarship.
Deadline for applications: January 9, 2025 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic: The Jewish Theological Seminary, University of Delaware and Tulane University invite papers for their third annual conference: Jews and/in Ukraine. The conference takes place at JTS, New York on June 2, 2025.
Presentations should focus on history, culture, and social interaction of Jews and Ukrainians in Ukraine.
Via H-Judaic: The editors of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes welcome manuscript submissions for a special volume dedicated to the intersections of music and sound with the Canadian Jewish experience, past and present.
Proposals for non-academic articles, including creative outputs such as compositions accompanied by detailed description and analysis with relevance to Canadian Jewish studies are welcome. Thematic areas for contributions could include e.g.: music and memory, music and migration, music in religious and spiritual contexts, music and community building.
Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
Issue no. 47 of Nashim (Spring, 2026) aims to address how Jews in Israel and abroad are working to make sense of the events and move forward from them. The editors seeks scholarly articles and essays in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and the arts, on topics that address meaning-making after October 7.
Proposals for submissions can contain up to 12,000 words and should not be previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2025. │ DETAILS
The podcast explores the aftermath of October 7 and the the challenges the events pose to German society. Franka Maubach (current substitute for the professorship “Allgemeine Geschichte unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zeitgeschichte” at Bielefeld university) and David Jünger (associate member of the Forschungs- und Dokumentationsstelle des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern zur Geschichte der Diktaturen in Deutschland), Thomas Werneke discusses the role and responsibilities of historians in assessing the events.
The Interdisziplinäre Forum Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit invites to its 25th anniversary conference at the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Stuttgart-Hohenheim on Feb. 14-16, 2025. Focus will be placed on the presentation and discussion of innovative, especially digital methods and formats of teaching Jewish history of the early modern period.
The Interdisciplinary Forum Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern Period has been organized by historians, Jewish scholars and researchers of other disciplines since 2000. Made possible in cooperation with the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies,, the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg, the Society for the Study of Jewish History and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute in Essen.
Deadline for applications is January 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
Columbia University’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral fellowship at the rank of Post-Doctoral Research Scholar in Jewish Studies for the 2025-2026 academic year. The fellowship is open to scholars in all areas of Israel and Jewish Studies. Excellent command of Hebrew is required.
Deadline for application is December 20, 2024. │DETAIL
The Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University invite applications for the conference Yiddish in Public Space: The Art of Language, taking place on April 21, 2025 at Bar Ilan University.
The symposium plans to focus on the public presence of Yiddish, with the goal of exploring the visibility of Yiddish in public spaces across Eastern and Western Europe and in the territories of Yiddish-speaking diasporas. It will examine its role in signage, memorials, storefronts, and other contexts as a marker of cultural identity, memory, and community.
The proposed working languages of the symposium are Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
Deadline for submissions: February 10, 2025. │ DETAILS
The Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophiee seeks contributions for a special issue on the relationship between philosophy and the various understandings of Antisemitism, Antijudaism and Antizionism on the one hand, and Judaism and Jewishness on the other hand. Papers may address historical as well as current debates and philosophical theories.
Deadline for submission: October 31, 2025 │ DETAILS
An der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät am Axel Springer-Lehrstuhl für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) ist zum 01.04.2025 die Stelle eines*r Akademischen*r Mitarbeiter*in zu besetzen.
Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Januar 2025 │ DETAILS
Via EAJS - The Courtauld Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, organizes a two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories on 19-20 May 2025 and thus invites proposals that investigate the trans-historic impact of art and/or architecture made by and for medieval Jewish communities. Submissions should respond to one of the following themes: manuscripts and printed books; metalwork and textiles; the architecture of secular and ritual spaces; and collecting practices.
Deadline for submissions : February 27, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Jewish Studies Program in association with the Department of History at Queen's University invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. The temporal and thematic area of specialization is open and includes any area of research related to Jewish history. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar with a completed PhD who has a record of outstanding teaching. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active scholarly profile and to teach three semester-long courses on Jewish history, broadly defined, per academic year.
Deadline for applications: January 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles Campus, invites applications for a two-year non-tenure track position in Jewish Textual Traditions, to begin on July 1, 2025. The institute is seeking a candidate with a PhD in Rabbinics or a related field. Broad knowledge of the Jewish tradition and its texts, as well as proficiency in Hebrew and rabbinic Aramaic, is essential.
Deadline for applications: January 2, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Religious Studies Department at the University of Oregon invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Religious Studies with a specialty in Medieval Judaism at the rank of Assistant Professor starting in September 16, 2025.
A Ph.D. with a research focus in Medieval Judaism is required by the time of appointment. Hebrew plus another language in target area of research is mandatory.
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2024 │DETAILS
CfA: The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica. The Starr fellowships for 2025-2026 will be available exclusively to recent Ph.D. recipients working on Jewish mysticism, including Kabbalah in all periods, Hasidism, including neo-Hasidism, and other forms of Jewish thought significantly influenced by Kabbalah Residence in the Boston area and participation in the Center community is mandatory during the fellowship appointment.
Deadline for applications: December 12, 2024 │ DETAILS
The Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Jewish Studies. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting on July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will be appointed to a Faculty of Arts & Science Department depending on their field of expertise (51%), and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (49%). A PhD degree in Jewish Studies or a related area by the time of appointment is required. The focus lays on Hebrew Literature and Culture, Jews of the Islamic World, North American Jewish Life, and Rabbinic literature.
Deadline for applications: December 16, 2024 │DETAILS
The Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame is offering a two-year postdoctoral fellowship that will begin on July 1, 2025. A Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2025 is required. Candidates may specialize in any domain of Jewish theology and culture. Special consideration will be given to candidates whose research agenda complements existing departmental and university strengths.
Deadline for applications: December 13, 2024 │ DETAILS
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe offers various Professional Development Grants for Europe-based archivists, librarians, conservators, curators, educators, cataloguers, etc working professionally in a museum, archive, library or other heritage organisation with a significant Jewish collection.
Deadline for applications:
- December 31, 2024
- February 28, 2025
- April 30, 2025
The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) invites applications for the position as a Research Associate for one year as part of the Ignaz Goldziher Program for Jewish-Muslim Studies. Applicants should hold a PhD or are currently the final stages of a doctoral program in the field of modern and contemporary history, Eastern European history, Islamic studies, Oriental studies, Judaism and/or Jewish studies, or cultural studies.
Deadline for applications: December 18, 2024 │ DETAILS
The British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies (BIAJS) invites proposals for its annual conference taking place in Glasgow, 7-9 July 2025 under the theme Border Crossing in Jewish Studies.
This interdisciplinary event seeks to explore the many dimensions of border crossings—geographic, cultural, religious, linguistic, intellectual, and disciplinary—within Jewish studies, as well as within Jewish history, experience and practice. Papers that examine how Jews have navigated, challenged, and redefined borders across various contexts, both physical and metaphorical are welcome.
Deadline for proposals: January 30, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust and related topics for projects that will benefit from a period of residence at the Museum and access to its resources. Proposals can focus thematically on e.g. anthropology, archaeology, art history, history, Jewish studies, law and material culture. Fellowships are designed for scholars at all levels of career, starting with PhD candidates (ABD).
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024 │DETAILS
Am 14. November 2014 eröffnet die Ausstellung »Library of Lost Books« an der Universitätsbibliothek J.C. Senckenberg mit einer Vernissage. Bis zum 31. Januar 2025 erfahren Sie mehr über die Bibliothek der Berliner Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, die von den Nationalsozialisten geraubt wurde und heute weltweit verstreut ist. Mit »Library of Lost Books« initiierten die Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem und London, sowie die Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Instituts e.V., eine globale Buchsuche. Auch in Frankfurt wurde man fündig.
Am 14. November 2024 ab 19 Uhr im Foyer der Zentralbibliothek der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main am Freimannplatz 1 in 60325 Frankfurt am Main
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor in the field of Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought in the Islamic World. Focus lays on medieval Hebrew and Arabic and applicants should be versed in the philology, aesthetics, and history of both languages and literary traditions.
Deadline for applications: November 25, 2024 │ DETAILS
The Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main invites applications for two Research Associate positions ( fix-term, full time, 3-year and 1,5 years)for the research project The Banks and the Jews. On the role of the Frankfurter Sparkasse of 1822, the Städtische Sparkasse Frankfurt and the Polytechnische Gesellschaft under National Socialism.
Deadline for applications: November 10, 2024.│DETAILS
Am 7. und 8.11. wird es wegen Wartungsarbeiten teilweise nicht möglich sein auf die FID-Lizenzen zuzugreifen.
Wir entschuldigen uns im Voraus für die entstehenden Unannehmlichkeiten.
The Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, sponsored by the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture is accepting proposals for papers and workshops in Yiddish Studies from graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals for the virtual conference: Farbindungen, Bad Yiddish / בעד ייִדיש.
The conference will be held February 2-3, 2025.
Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2024 │
Der Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien führt eine Umfrage zur Informations- und Ressourcenversorgung in den Jüdischen Studien und Israel-Studien durch. Ziel ist es, bestehende Informations- und Serviceangebote zu evaluieren, sowie weitere Bedarfe zu ermitteln.
Sie können bis zum 25. November 2024 über folgenden Link an der Umfrage teilnehmen: https://surveys.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index.php/634941?lang=de
Die Beantwortung der Umfrage nimmt ca. 20 Minuten in Anspruch und unterteilt sich in vier Abschnitte:
- Allgemeine Informationen
- Literaturversorgung & Ressourcen
- Services des FID Jüdische Studien
- Forschungsdaten
Diese Umfrage richtet sich an Forschende aller Karrierestufen sowie Studierende mit einem Forschungsinteressen innerhalb der Jüdischen Studien und Israel-Studien. Darüber hinaus laden wir Mitarbeiter*innen einschlägiger Museen, Bibliotheken, Archive und Gedenkstätten ein, an der Umfrage teilzunehmen.
The LBI New York/Berlin invites applications for one or more fellowships per year for students enrolled in a Ph.D. program at an accredited institution of higher education. The fellowships provide financial assistance to scholars whose research projects are in connection with the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry.
Deadline for applications: November 14, 2024 │DETAILS
The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Program 2025/26. The call is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers (up to six years after their PhD) working on a methodologically and thematically innovative project in Jewish history and culture. The proposed research projects should resonate with the foci of DI’s research units Politics, Law and Knowledge.
Deadline: December 16, 2024 │
Via H-Soz-Kult - The Foundation Hamburg Memorials and Learning Sites in Memory of the Victims of Nazi Crimes invites applications for the position of a coordinator (part-time) of the project Storyfinder. Participatory contributions for a WebApp about stories of Nazi persecution in the center of Hamburg (d/m/w), starting January 1, 2025 for two years.
The project aims to develop multimedia tours in collaboration young people and tell the history(ies) of persecution and everyday life under National Socialism in Hamburg beyond the established narratives.
Deadline for applications: November 3, 2024 │DETAILS
The YIVO calls for applications for its annual fellowships in Eastern European and American Jewish History. These fellowships are intended primarily for graduate students and emerging scholars. Each fellowship requires a public lecture by the holder, to be held during or immediately after the fellow’s research period. Fellows are usually expected to spend a period of four to twelve weeks in residence. This can be divided into several research trips, in consultation with YIVO staff.
Deadline for applications: January 17, 2025 │ DETAILS
Via H-Soz-Kult - Via H-Soz-Kult - The DAAD invites applications for a lecturer position at the University of Sussex. The candidate shall be an expert in the field of German-Jewish Studies with a focus on history and possibly in art history, philosophy and film and media studies.
Deadline for applications: November 14, 2024 │ DETAILS (in German)
The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main invites applications for an academic trainee (full-time/part-time) for two years, starting February 1, 2025.
The trainee will be involved in various activities regarding collections, conduct research in archives, museums and online-accessible databases. The trainee is expected to contribute to the conception and realization of one exhibition. Openness to social media is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2025 │ DETAILS
Via EAJS - The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University Lucerne invites applications for a professorship in Jewish Studies (75%, open rank, fixed-term) as of August 1, 2025.
The professorship is dedicated in particular to Jewish history and related fields, with a possible focus on cultural studies, literary studies, (religious) sociology or history with research fields around topics such as secularization, (inter-)mediality, cultural memory, diversity and gender, identity or diaspora since the early modern period.
German language skills (C1) are required.
Deadline: December 1, 2024 | DETAILS
The Jewish Museum Munich seeks to fill the position of the Director.
The Director is responsible for all business areas of the Jewish Museum Munich and leads the strategic and innovative development of the museum with respect to exhibitions, collection, education, press & public, taking into account current social issues as well as budget planning, including third-party funding acquisition and fundraising. In addition, the development of new exhibition formats as well as the establishment and maintenance of networks with various stakeholders is an essential part of the job.
Deadline for applications: November 4, 2024 | DETAILS
Im Rahmen des Citizen Sciences Projektes Library of Lost Books laden das Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik und die Kölner Bibliothek Germania Judaica Schüler*innen (ab Stufe 10) und Studierende am 18. November 2024 zu einem Workshop zur Provenienzforschung.
The lost books once belonged to the library of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums Berlin. As one of the most important institutions of Jewish Studies before the Second World War, the Hochschule housed one of the most important Jewish libraries. Tens of thousands of volumes on Jewish history and culture were looted during the Holocaust and are now scattered around the world. With Library of Lost Books, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and London, as well as the Friends and Sponsors of the Leo Baeck Institute e.V., have initiated a global book search.
The workshop will take place on November 18, 2024 between 14.00 and 17.30 at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies (Kerpener Str. 4, 50937 Cologne) and in the Historical Archive with Rhenish Picture Archive (Eifelwall 5, 50674 Cologne).
In the first part of the workshop there will be an introduction to the topic of provenance research, and in the second part the book detectives will set off on their own in search of the library's lost volumes.
Anmeldung und weiterführende Informationen
Interessierte können sich bis spätestens 31. Oktober 2024 unter apfuetzn@uni-koeln.de verbindlich anmelden. Die maximale Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt sich aus Platzgründen auf 20 Personen.
Alle Teilnehmenden sind herzlich eingeladen, nach dem Workshop den öffentlichen Vortrag von Herrn Prof. Emile Schrijver, Generaldirektor des Jüdischen Kulturviertels in Amsterdam: Provenienzforschung Jüdischer Bücher: Was bedeutet das praktisch? zu besuchen: ab 18.30 Uhr im Historischen Archiv.
The Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2025.
The fellowships are designed to support and foster international Holocaust research. The program is aimed at established as well as younger researchers. Applications from Germany, Europe as well as from all over the world are welcome. A topic within the field of Holocaust Studies is required in order to be eligible for one of the fellowships.
Fellows are expected to participate actively in events and research discussions and to present their topic in a colloquium.
The stipend level depends on the prior academic degrees of the recipients. Fellowships are awarded in the following three categories:
- Junior Fellowships (2500 Euro per month)
- Senior Fellowships (3500 Euro per month)
- 2025 Exchange of Scholars of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Deadline for applications: November 18, 2024. | DETAILS
Congratulations to our colleagues from LBI Jerusalem and LBI London!
The Library of Lost Books was honored with the Grimme Online Award in the category Culture and Entertainment.
Jury statement: “The ‘Library of Lost Books’ opens up a digital space that makes it possible to experience a part of German-Jewish history that is almost never shown in this way. It is therefore much more than an online archive. The focus is on the people at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums: their resistance, their solidarity, their modernity and enlightenment - and their library.”
The lost books were once in the library of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums Berlin. As one of the most important Jewish teaching and research institutions before the Second World War, the university housed one of the most important Jewish book collections. Tens of thousands of volumes on Jewish history and culture were looted during the Holocaust and are now scattered around the world. With the project Library of Lost Books, the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and London, as well as the Friends and Sponsors of the Leo Baeck Institute e.V., initiated a global book search.
Via EAJS - The Dan David Society of Fellows is accepting applications for outstanding postdoctoral research in the study of the past. This two-year fellowship offers generous funding for international and Israeli scholars to conduct innovative research at Tel Aviv University, while benefiting from professional mentorship offered by faculty members.
The fellowship is open to candidates from all disciplines studying the human past, including but not limited to history, archaeology, art history, history of education, history of science, technology and medicine, physical anthropology, literature, philosophy, and digital humanities. Applicants must have completed their PhD between October 1, 2020, and September 1, 2025.
The fellowships will be awarded for a maximum of two years each, beginning October 1, 2025. Three days a week at Tel Aviv University and an active membership of the university’s scholarly community is requested.
Deadline for applications December 15, 2024 | DETAILS
The Discipline of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney is seeking to appoint an Associate Lecturer or Lecturer in Modern Hebrew.
Courses to be taught and coordinated will involve both language and literature components of Modern Hebrew, with students’ fluency ranging from beginners to near-native speakers. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of teaching across all levels of Modern Hebrew fluency and demonstrated research experience within the field. The position is full-time for a five-year fixed term and is structured between teaching (40%), research (40%) and governance, leadership and engagement (20%).
Deadline for applications: November 8, 2024 | DETAILS
Via EAJS - CEJA (Center for Jewish Studies of the Amazon) in collaboration with the Center for History of the University of Lisbon (CH-U Lisboa) invite applications for the III International Congress of Sephardic Studies (III CIES), which will take place in person on October 21- 23, 2025, at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. The event has the support of CEJ (Center for Jewish Studies at the University of São Paulo), NIEJ (Interdisciplinary Center for Jewish Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Tikvah-Jewish Museum of Lisbon.
The Congress, considering the history of previous events and the premises set out above, accepts proposals for communication in the fields of Humanities and Human Sciences, i.e., History, History of Art, History of Science, Geography, Literature, Linguistics, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Gender and Queer Studies, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Memory and Museology, Monographs, Cinema, and Fine Arts. Other topics not mentioned here, if presented by scholars on time, will be examined by the Committee of Coordinators.
Deadline: January 30, 2025. | DETAILS
CfP - Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies invites submissions for the 8th International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies (ICIJS’24), to be held virtually from December 2 to 6, 2024.
The conference covers all subfields of Israel and Jewish studies, including but not limited to: politics, international relations, history, theology, sociology, and other related traditional or contemporary disciplines.
In addition, Israel and Judaism Studies Awards will be given to distinguished doctoral and master's theses, as well as original/translated books and academic articles related to Israel and Jewish studies in Turkey.
Students are invited to attend this conference.
Abstract Deadline: November 25, 2024 | Full Paper/Video Submission Deadline: December 2, 2024. | DETAILS
On October 28, 2024 there will be the opportunity to be read together Midrashim written by women from Kibbutzim Kfar Azza and Nir Oz, sharing their experiences from Oct. 7 and afterwards. Moreover midrashim written by other Israeli women from around the country that address issues of captivity, displacement will be on focus. They all ask, “Where was God on October 7th?”
Tamar Biala is engaged with Jewish feminism as a writer and lecturer. Over the last decade she has published two volumes of midrashim written by contemporary Israeli women, Dirshuni — Midreshei Nashim (Yediot Acharonot, 2009, 2018). Registration requested
Monday, October 28, 2024, 10:30 am - 12 am (ET) | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - The University of Louisville Philosophy Department invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture, with expertise in any area or era of Jewish Philosophy. Appointment beginning August 1, 2025.
In addition to Philosophy programs, the successful candidate will also sit on the Jewish Studies Steering Committee and contribute to the Jewish Studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Review of applications begins on November 1, 2024 | DETAILS
The Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw offers a 33-month-post-doc position in the field of art history, history, cultural studies or sociology to work in the project “Discourses on Body in Jewish Culture in the Polish Lands between 1880 and 1939”, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland. Expected fellowship start is in December 2024.
Deadline for applications: October 31, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - The Franke Institute for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, and the Department of Comparative Literature invite proposals for presentations at the Yiddish Ecologies symposium at the University of Chicago, on February 16-17, 2025. The organizers aim to bring together students, artists and scholars to consider new questions relating ecology and Yiddish language and literature. Proposals for panels, performances, and papers in English or Yiddish are welcome.
Participants may choose to speak in person or remotely. Presenters will receive a modest honorarium; those who present in Chicago will be offered transportation and housing for the event.
Deadline: October 15, 2024 | DETAILS
CfP - The World Union of Jewish Studies invites proposals for the Nineteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, that will take place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on August 4–8, 2025.
Scholars from all fields of Jewish Studies are invited to take part in the Congress. They may submit a proposal for a lecture or for a complete thematic session. Proposals for complete sessions are strongly encouraged.
The six broad divisions of the World Congress are:
- The Bible and Its World
- History of the Jewish People
- Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Law and Jewish Thought
- Languages, Literatures, and the Arts
- Jewish Studies and Social Sciences
- Research Projects and Technology
Deadline for proposals: December 1, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - JOTA (Brandeis Initiative of the Jews of the Americas) calls for applications for its first Artist-Scholar Fellowship, which will include an in-person Residency workshop at Brandeis University during Fall 2025, titled “The Spine: Identity in Tumultuous Times/La Médula: Identidad en Tiempos Tumultuosos”. The Residency will be followed by a six-month continuing supported group Fellowship structured around monthly online meetings. The Fellowship will provide the following deliverables: an art exhibition in Spring 2026, the publication of a book including images of the artwork or recordings and editorial essays by the scholars, and also a scholarly publication compiling full length articles in an academic journal of the field to be submitted for peer review within nine months after the conclusion of the Residency.
Deadline for applications: November 1, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - The Association for Advancement of Society and Culture, in collaboration with the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East invite applications for the “Ninth International Conference fot the Study of Yemeni Jewry”, that will take place at the Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, February 24 – 26, 2025.
Focus will be on immigration and aliyah of Yemeni Jews in all periods, and on the history of their settlement in Israel. Proposals for innovative lectures on topics related to Yemeni Jewry of all periods, including personalities; history; language; literature and culture; folklore; Jewish thought: philosophy, Kabbalah, Halacha and Midrash; material culture; gender and more, are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2024 | DETAILS
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (GLL) and the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (SEELC) at the Ohio State University invite applications for a joint tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Yiddish language and Ashkenazic culture beginning August 15, 2025. This joint appointment is 75% in GLL and 25% in SEELC. The position includes opportunities to collaborate with faculty and students in both departments as well as in Jewish Studies, housed in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and the Melton Center for Jewish Studies. Required: near-native fluency in Yiddish.
Review of applications starts on November 1, 2024 | DETAILS
Via EAJS - The Islamic and Jewish Legal Scholars Symposium invites papers for a Symposium on Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law in May 5 - 6, 2025.
The symposium will explore the integration of pre-modern religious law and norms into the modern financial economy. We anticipate that papers will explore the tools used by religious traditions to construct their own commercial law in ways that both align with and diverge from modern state law. Comparative inquiries between Islamic and Jewish law are encouraged, although comparisons to other legal traditions and/or works related to one religious legal tradition are welcome.
Papers are welcome from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies, including law, sociology, anthropology, politics, and history, from scholars based in law schools and other academic departments.
Deadline: January 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) invites proposals for the 21st International Research Conference, to be held in two formats. There will be a Virtual Conference on May 20–21, 2025 and an In-Person Conference Meeting on July 3–4, 2025, the latter hosted by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Every two years LAJSA holds its International Research Conference to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines and geographical regions whose work focuses on the lives, languages, experiences, cultural production, and representations of and by Jews in and from Latin America and the Caribbean. Graduate students working on Latin American and Caribbean Jewish topics are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline: October 30, 2024 | DETAILS
Via EAJS - The Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp organises an interdisciplinary conference “17th Contact Day Jewish Studies**”** concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate contacts between researchers working within this area of study.
We especially encourage young researchers to participate in the workshop. We also hope for contributions from more established researchers, in order to create a positive exchange between different research generations. We particularly invite papers and/or sessions that are explicitly comparative in character, and welcome themes and disciplines within Jewish Studies concerning the Low Countries.
Deadline: December15, 2024 | DETAILS
Via EAJS - The Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) invites nominations for the 2024 Graduate Student Paper Award. This award recognizes outstanding research on contemporary Jewry by graduate students. Eligible papers must have been accepted for publication or published in an academic journal during 2023/2024.
Deadline: October 31, 2024 | DETAILS
The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce a virtual writing group oriented towards North American-based Holocaust scholars who are untenured, contingent, or working outside of academia. This application-only writing group is designed to support the production of scholarship on the Holocaust and to build an intellectual community, including increased networking opportunities and access to fellow scholars and experts in the field of Holocaust Studies. Each participant is also expected to read each other’s work and provide substantive feedback. While the focus of the group will be on the monthly meetings and review of participant work.
Participants will meet monthly via Zoom for 7 months between December 2024 and June 2025. All group sessions will take place via Zoom for two hours on Fridays from 11 a.m. EST to 1 p.m. EST on December 13, 2024; January 24, 2025; February 21, 2025; March 21, 2025; April 25, 2025; May 30, 2025; and June 20, 2025. Please ensure those meetings fit your schedule before applying.
Deadline: November 1, 2024 I DETAILS
The London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) and the Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitsm and Racism at the University of Haifa invite papers and panels for the conference “Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025”, March 30 - April 1, 2025.
The conference aims to institutionalize an international network of antisemitsm scholarship, both a network of institutions and a network of scholars. Focus lies also on the discussion of concrete proposals for bringing together and funding academic research on antismitism.
Deadline for applications: January 2, 2025.
Deadline for registrations: March 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of History at the University of California, Davis, calls for applications for a tenured position specializing in European Jewish History to fill the Emanuel Ringelblum Chair. This recruitment is conducted at the ranks of Associate and Full Professor. In particular, applicants must be prepared to teach the history of the Holocaust regularly. The position is open until filled.
Deadline: November 4, 2024 | DETAILS
Via EAJS | The Claims Conference provides grant funds to European universities for the purposes of teaching Holocaust courses for one year and is currently seeking universities that are interested in creating a partnership for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Requirements:
- be Eastern European-based and well established
- be a public (government-supported) university
- have an established History or other Humanities-related department
- be offering no more than 1 Holocaust course throughout the university
- be able to accept funds from the Claims Conference to pay the chosen lecturer directly (the Claims Conference will not pay the lecturer)
Deadline: NOVEMBER 13, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic | Yale University intends to appoint a Postdoctoral Associate in the Study of Antisemitism for the academic year 2025-2026.
The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting research into the phenomenon of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. It brings together scholars from across the university and from a variety of different disciplines - History, Political Science, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, etc. The Postdoctoral Associate will be expected to attend all YPSA events and participate in all YPSA activities.
Reviewing applications starts on December 1, 2024 | DETAILS
The École Pratique des Hautes Études invites applications for an online course cluster “Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Palaeography, Edition, Cataloguing”. Its aim is to provide the participants with traditional and digital skills and some understanding of computational possibilities in Hebrew Manuscript Studies. In addition to the online seminars, students are encouraged to acquire practical skills by contributing to one or more of the digital projects:
Hebrew Palaeography Album (HebrewPal, https://www.hebrewpalaeography.com/ ); MultiPal (http://multipal.fr/ ); Books within Books (http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/) BiNaH (Catalogue des manuscrits hébreux de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France) (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE27-0009 ) e-Scriptorium (https://escripta.hypotheses.org/https://ephenum.hypotheses.org/1412); eRabbinica: https://editions.erabbinica.org/S07326.xml
The course is held in English. The teaching consists of three one hour seminars a week between November 18th 2024, and June 4th 2025 (excluding EPHE holidays).
Deadline: October 25, 2024 | DETAILS
The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society University of Haifa invites applications for the Sonja and Manfred Lahnstein Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Haifa in 20th-Century German Studies for the 2025–2026 Academic Year (for a minimum of 10 months).
The Lahnstein Fellowship supports innovative research on 20th-century German history, culture, and society, including the latter’s evolving national boundaries, diasporas, and exiles. We are especially interested in original research that involves the Middle East. The fellowship is designed to cover a one-year research stay in Haifa.
Deadline for submissions: December 2, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Judaic - The New Generation Group is part of the Jewish Historical Society of England. It is a place for PhD students and emerging scholars of Jewish Studies to network and support each other. Each month, they invite emerging scholars to join online workshops and meetings on Jewish history, research methodologies and more. Registration necessary
All of our events are online via Zoom and start at 6:30 pm (local time UK).
The Jewish Museum Hohenems is looking for a curator (80%) to start as soon as possible.
The Jewish Museum Hohenems in Vorarlberg is a regionally rooted museum with an international audience and a worldwide community. It commemorates the history of a Jewish community between Austria and Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein and in its exhibitions and projects addresses issues of Jewish presence, culture and history in the diaspora and coexistence in Europe against the backdrop of history.
Deadline for applications: October 15, 2024 | DETAILS
Via H-Soz-Kult | The Faculty of Humanities at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf invites applications for two tenured tenure track positions (W2 / W3) in Jewish Studies, starting April 1, 2025. The subjects are
- literature or cultural studies
- modern Jewish history
Applicants research shall focus on in exile and/or migration and/or cultures of remembrance. A willingness to distinguish oneself in the field of Israel studies, the Jewish history of Eastern Europe and/or contemporary European Jewish cultures is also desirable.
Together with the Professorship of Yiddish Studies, the two advertised professorships should contribute to the development of a profile, particularly in the field of modernity. Applicants should be able to teach in German.
Application deadline: October 9, 2024
The Jewish Community of Berlin once again organizes the Jewish Culture Days from 12.09.-22.09.2024 under the motto “Light”.
The Jewish Culture Days offer an insight into Jewish culture in all its diversity. With jazz, soul, pop, rock, world music, synagogue music, classical music, comics, literature, lectures, public services and a large festival, the festival days also offer non-Jewish visitors the opportunity to get to know Jewish life.
Details in English
“Religions” - an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal on religions and theology, published monthly online by MDPI, invites papers of its special issue: Jewish Languages: Diglossia in Judaism.
This Special Issue invites contributions to all aspects of the Jewish diglossic tradition, seeking to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives. Submissions about all aspects of Jewish diglossic traditions are welcome, e.g.:
- Codeswitching in the Talmud;
- Hebrew and Judeo–Persian diglossia;
- Hebrew–Yiddish diglossia in Central and Eastern Europe;
- Medieval Hebrew and Judeo–Arabic diglossia (e.g., in Al-Andalus);
- Hebrew and Ladino diglossia in the Ottoman Empire;
- Hebrew and Haketia diglossia in North Africa;
- Jewish secret languages (e.g., Lotera’I, Ivri BeLoy, Khokhmer Loshn/Rottwelsch);
- The productive use of Hebrew in the Diaspora vs Diaspora Jewish languages;
- Diglossia in contemporary Haredi communities;
Deadline for manuscript submissions: January 15, 2025 | DETAILS
VIA EASJ | The Western Jewish Studies Association invites scholars to send proposals for papers and panels on all areas of Jewish Studies regardless of discipline, geographical focus, or time period for its annual conference. The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2025 in San Diego, California.
Deadline for applications: November 15, 2024 | DETAILS
The Israel Jacobson Netzwerk für jüdische Kultur und Geschichte e. V. (IJN) in Braunschweig invites appliactions for a Research Associate (EG 13 TV-L, 50%) in the project “Digital education material on Israel and Israel-related antisemitism”. The project involves the development and implementation of educational material as a module in the internet portal Jüdisches Niedersachsen online.
Deadline for applications: September 15, 2024 | DETAILS (in German)
The Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge invites applications for a new part-time (0.25 FTE) Teaching Associate in the field of Jewish Studies, for a fixed term of three years from January 1, 2025.
Candidates should have a doctorate in Jewish Studies and will be expected to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and examining in the field as well as to perform some administrative duties. The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.
Deadline for application: October 14, 2024 | DETAILS
The Institute of Latin American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for 12 research assistant positions in the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2445 ‘Temporalities of Future in Latin America: Dynamics of Aspiration and Anticipation’.
Applications from scholars in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies are welcome. Scholars in Jewish Studies will find an inspiring context and network both at the Institute of Jewish and Religious Studies/University of Potsdam and the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg.
Deadline for application: September 30, 2024 | DETAILS
The Hans Böckler Foundation invites applications for up to five PhD scholarships as part of the interdisciplinary doctoral program Gebrochene Traditionen? Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Musik im NS-Deutschland (PK 057) starting June 2025.
The program focuses on the intellectual and artistic activities of Jews in Nazi Germany, who responded to the social exclusion, marginalization and murder of large sections of European Jewry.
The program is a cooperation of the Axel Springer Chair for German-Jewish Literature, Cultural History, Exile and Migration at the European University Viadrina, the Buber-Rosenzweig-Institut an der Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and the Chair for the History of Jewish Music at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.
Bewerbungsschluss: 2. November 2024 | DETAILS
NFDI4Memory’s Task Area »Data Quality« invites researchers to take part in its survey "Practices, standards, and needs for data quality in historically oriented disciplines." The survey is open until October 15, 2024.
The survey aims to gain a better understanding how historians and researchers from related disciplines guarantee the quality of their data, which standards they use, and what services they need to do so. | | DETAILS (in German)
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for various fellowships for the Academic Year 2025/2026:
- two senior fellowships,
- two to four research fellowships,
- two to four junior fellowships and
- one Fortunoff-VWI Research Fellowship
Fellowships will enables research stays at the VWI for the duration of five to eleven months.
Deadline for application: January 17, 2025 | DETAILS
The Leibniz Institute of European History awards postdoctoral fellowships to young academics from Germany and abroad who are pursuing a new research project in European history, history of religion, and other historical disciplines (including Digital Humanities).
Deadline for application: October 15, 2024 | DETAILS
**New Deadline ** - November 27, 2024
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: November 27, 2024 | Details
Leo Baeck Institute London is seeking to recruit a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research on the intersections and entanglements between German-Jewish and British history, including the British Empire, with a specific topic of their choosing. Fixed term for 12 months.
The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the understanding of cultural, social, and intellectual exchanges between German-Jewish emigrants and British society, particularly in the context of migration, exile, and the aftermath of the Holocaust. This role aims to enhance the profile and scope of the Institute’s activities and encourage new collaborations, publications, and outreach initiatives. The researcher will also be affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London, as an Honorary Research Fellow.
Deadline for application: October 31, 2024 | DETAILS
Das Jüdische Museum Berlin sucht zum 1. November 2024 eine*n Bibliothekar*in / Mitarbeiter*in für den Bereich Bibliothek (Entgeltgruppe 9c TVöD).
Folgende Aufgaben erwarten Sie u.a.
- Formal- und Sacherschließung unserer Neuzugänge (auch Hebraica) im System aDis von aStec
- Betreuung der Besucher*innen im Lesesaal
- Organisation des Schriftentausches
- Mitarbeit an der Weiterentwicklung der Bibliotheksservices und an der Organisation von Veranstaltungen
- Mitarbeit bei der Betreuung von Praktikant*innen und Freiwilligen
Angefordert wird
- Abgeschlossene Hochschulausbildung (Bachelor/Diplom (FH)) in den Fachrichtungen Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft oder abgeschlossene Hochschulausbildung (Bachelor/Diplom (FH)) in Judaistik, Jüdischen Studien
- Kenntnisse der hebräischen Sprache und Transliteration
- Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache in Wort und Schrift
- Erfahrung im Umgang mit Datenbanken und Bibliothekssystemen
- Kenntnisse im Bereich Formalkatalogisierung nach RDA oder die Bereitschaft, diese zu erlernen
- Kommunikations- und Kooperationsfähigkeit
- Interesse an der Geschichte und der Kultur des Judentums
Bewerbungsschluss: 1. September 2024 | DETAILS
Together with the academy project Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main/ Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz), the FID Jewish Studies is organizing the DH Workshop on 30.09.-01.10.2024: Wikidata, GND, GeoNames & Co: Potentials of authority data in Jewish Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main .
Authority files are not longer an sole library tool, but have become indispensable in research and editing projects. The unambiguous referencing of persons, corporate bodies and places plays an important role within individual research projects as well as for linking with other projects (keyword: Semantic Web). Standardization data facilitates reusability and plays an important role in the discussion about research data.
Researchers interested in attending the workshop can apply until September 6, 2024. For more information see here (in German)
The Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute of German-Jewish Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in cooperation with the Chair in Jewish Studies and the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) at the University of Bamberg invite for the International Conference “Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”. The conference is organized as part of the research project “Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne – Raum, Form, Inschrift”.
Die internationale Auftakveranstaltung soll der Kontextualisierung des Projekts aus unterschiedlichen Richtungen – epigraphisch, historisch, digital – dienen.
The conference will take place at Universität Duisburg-Essen on September 8-11, 2024 | Registration until August 25, 2024 | DETAILS
The School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex looking to appoint a Research Fellow in Digital Humanities. The school recently launched the Landecker Digital Memory Lab: Connective Holocaust Commemoration focused on enhancing digital literacies and capacities in organisations dealing with the Holocaust and victims of National Socialism, across the world. Mour about the work of the Lab you can find here.
The Research Fellow will bring an active profile in research and practice that explores the use of distant reading techniques for the presentation and exploration of data related to digital heritage and experience of, or a willingness to learn, interviewing techniques and how to record digital walkthroughs.
Deadline for application: September 6, 2024 | DETAILS
VIA H-SOZ-KULT | The Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, the Eastern European Holocaust Studies, the Ukraina Moderna website, and the Austrian Service Abroad are cooperating and partnering in launching a webinar series on the theme of “Othering, Occupation, Violence, and Denial”.
Proposals on one of the following themes are welcome: Othering case studies of the Holocaust; survivor testimonies; Nazi occupation of Ukraine and other territories during WW2; Violence against individuals, groups and minorities; remembrance of the Holocaust to counter denial; and more.
Deadline for proposal submission: Septmber 16, 2024 | DETAILS
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for the academic year 2025-2026. Candidates who have completed their PhD at an Israeli or German university, as well as citizens of Israel or Germany who have received their PhD in any country, are eligible to apply. Applicants must have their PhD degree in hand no earlier than October 1st, 2020, and no later than July 1st, 2025. Application is open for those specializing in all fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Deadline for application: September 18, 2024 | Details
VIA H-SOZ-KULT | Für 2025 schreibt der Joseph-Carlebach-Arbeitskreis an der Universität Hamburg das Miriam Gillis-Carlebach Fellowship aus, um innovative wissenschaftliche Projekte im Feld der Jüdischen Studien zu fördern und den wissenschaftlichen Austausch zwischen Deutschland und Israel zu vertiefen. Das Fellowship richtet sich an Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen (Promovierende und PostDocs), die einen bis zu dreimonatigen Forschungsaufenthalt in Hamburg 2025 umsetzen wollen.
Bewerbungsschluss: 30. August 2024 | Details
Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies invites contributions for the workshop “Friends, Enemies, Frenemies: Ambivalences of Jewish-Muslim Relations”. The workshop will deal with different understandings of Jewish-Muslim ambivalence over time: In which contexts did Jews portray Muslims as role models? When and how did Muslims learn from Jewish culture or attempt to emulate it? How did political conflicts shape the dynamics of learning about the respective “other”? And how can we theorize the frequent shifts from amity to enmity (and back again)?
The Workshop will take place on January 26-28, 2025.
Deadline for application: September 30, 2024 | Details
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for the Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Professorship in Jewish Thought. Successful candidates will be appointed at the tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor rank. The Center welcomes scholars whose work in related fields such as anthropology, political theory, law, religious studies, gender/sexuality/queer studies, environment, and ecology intersects with the study of philosophy and intellectual history. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of August 25, 2025.
Application review begins on September 16, 2024 and will continue until an appointment is made. Details
The doctoral scholarship program of Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES) is aimed at Jewish doctoral candidates in all disciplines who are at the beginning of their doctoral studies, as well as at doctoral candidates conducting research on Jewish topics. Applications are open during September 2024. Further information
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
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 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 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
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
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)
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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)
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.
You can register and log-in here
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 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.
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
Weitere Informationen und das vollständige Programm
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 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)
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
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 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
Further information (in German)
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)
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.
Further information (in German)
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
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
You can register and log-in here
📣 The FID licenses are currently not available due to a technical issues
We are working on a solution
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
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.
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
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 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
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
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 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
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)
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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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.
We welcome any suggestions and questions. Reach out to us via info@jewishstudies.de or use the contact form.
The new edition of our newsletter is now available
Subsribe to our newsletter here (in German)
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