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The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is offering a position as researcher on Antisemitism.
The OeAW is inviting applications for 2026 fellowships at all career levels (from pre-doctoral level). The aim of the fellowship is to close research gaps in the field of research on Antisemitism in Austria. Applications are welcome from all areas of the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies.
Presence in Vienna is required.
Deadline for applications: September 14, 2025 | DETAILS
The Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) of Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies offer 12 pre-doctoral research fellows (65%) for up to 3+1 years starting by April 1, 2026.
Place of employment is Heidelberg, in the interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) 2840 entitled “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Europe, Asia and the Middle East” – a collaboration between Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies (HfjS).
Deadline for applications: September 30, 2025 | DETAILS
Wikidata wird als frei zugängliche Wissensdatenbank zunehmend für Forschungszwecke eingesetzt und bietet zahlreiche Potentiale für die kollaborative Kuratierung von Daten ganz unterschiedlicher Art. Mit Blick auf die spezifischen Anforderungen der Jüdischen Studien richten der Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien und das Akademievorhaben Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital vom 8.–9. September 2025 gemeinsam einen Hands-on Workshop an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz aus.
Der Workshop richtet sich an Forschende aller Karrierestufen aus sämtlichen Bereichen der Jüdischen Studien, die im Rahmen ihrer Forschungen Daten strukturiert erfassen und kuratieren. Ziel des Workshops ist es, die Potentiale von Wikidata für die Sammlung und Kuratierung strukturierter Daten vorzustellen und auf Basis eines praxisnahen Ansatzes Workflows zur Bearbeitung von Daten unterschiedlicher Art, einschließlich größerer Datenmengen, zu vermitteln. Teilnehmer*innen werden hierfür mit Daten aus ihren eigenen Forschungsprojekten arbeiten.
Der Workshop basiert auf Erfahrungen aus dem Akademievorhaben Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz) und schließt an einen gemeinsam mit dem FID Jüdische Studien (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) organisierten Workshop zu Normdaten in den Jüdischen Studien aus dem Herbst 2024 an.
Neben der Einführung und Vertiefung in die praktische Arbeit mit Wikidata wird der Workshop insbesondere das Thema Kollaboration in den Blick nehmen und das Format WikiProject vorstellen. In welcher Form könnte ein solches Projekt auch für die Jüdischen Studien umgesetzt werden? Welche Synergien entstehen für Forschende, nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern mit Blick auf internationale Kooperationen? Welche Herausforderungen sind zu beachten?
Für die Teilnahme am Workshop sind keine Vorkenntnisse und Erfahrungen mit Wikidata erforderlich, jedoch wird von den Teilnehmer*innen eine vorherige Auseinandersetzung mit den Grundprinzipien der Datenbank (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Introduction/de) erwartet. Bedingung ist weiterhin ein fachlich einschlägiges Forschungsprojekt und Datenset, das im Rahmen des Workshops bearbeitet wird. Promovierende werden ausdrücklich aufgefordert, sich um die Teilnahme zu bewerben. Teilnehmer*innen benötigen einen eigenen Laptop, sowie ein Nutzerkonto für Wikidata. Der Workshop wird auf Deutsch durchgeführt.
Interessierte können sich bis zum 30. Juli 2025 für den Workshop bewerben. Bitte senden Sie ein Kurz-CV (max. 250 Wörter) und einen Abstract zu Ihrem Forschungsvorhaben (max. 500 Wörter) in einer PDF-Datei an info@jewishstudies.de.
Bewerber*innen werden Anfang August 2025 über die Auswahlentscheidung informiert. Der FID Jüdische Studien trägt die Kosten für die Anreise und Unterkunft.
Organisator*innen:
Denise Jurst-Görlach, Goethe-Universität / Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital
Julian Jarosch, ADW Mainz / Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital
Thomas Kollatz, ADW Mainz / Buber-Korrespondenzen Digital
Kerstin von der Krone, Goethe-Universität / FID Jüdische Studien
Marie-Luise Schmidt, Goethe-Universität / FID Jüdische Studien
The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for its 2026–27 international fellowship program, a year focused on war and peace in Jewish history, thought, and culture.
War has been a part of Jewish experience since its very beginnings, and so too has the aspiration for peace. The Katz Center aims to use its fellowship program to support new research into how Jewish history, culture, thought, and expression have been shaped by and shape the experiences of war and peace. Beyond exploring the myriad ways that Jews and Judaism have been impacted by the physical and historical realities of war and peace, we seek to explore how both experiences have developed and figure in philosophical, ethical, political, and literary thinking as well (both Jewish and non-Jewish).
Deadline for applications: November 10, 2025 | DETAILS
The Centre for Eastern European Jewish History at Vilnius University and the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław invite proposals for the international conference “Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities.”
This two-day in-person event will explore the evolving relationship between Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities (DH), focusing on three key attitudes of digital research.
Proposals may adress topics including, but not limited to:
New digital tools and methods for studying Jewish history, texts, and cultures; digitisation projects involving Yiddish, Hebrew, or other multilingual sources; data sharing, linking and FAIR practices in Jewish Studies; uses of AI, HTR, OCR, or cartographic methods in DH projects; public engagement and citizen science in Jewish Studies; reflections on the epistemological boundaries between DH and Jewish Studies; digital curatorship in Jewish museums and archives.
Deadline for proposals: July 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for a residential fellowship during the academic year 2026-27. The annual theme is Rethinking Antisemitism. Candidates are welcome to explore how anti-Jewish policies and attitudes manifest themselves in varied regions and eras; how they shape the realities and social position of Jews and Jewish communities; and how Jewish communities are responding today and have responded historically. The institute invites scholars, experts, and practitioners from disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadline for applications: November 2, 2025 | Details
The Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne seeks to fill a part-time, fixed-term position as a research associate starting on October 1, 2025. Focus of the position is the conception and completion of a dissertation on an aspect of Jewish Studies in premodernity.
Deadline for applications: October 15, 2025 | DETAILS
Im Rahmen des SFB 1369 Vigilanzkulturen veranstaltet das Teilprojekt Wachsames Lesen: Hermeneutische Hellhörigkeit in der literarischen Vigilanzkultur des 19. Jahrhunderts einen Workshop unter dem Titel „Aber alle denken daran.“ Jüdische Autorschaft und Zensur in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts, in dem jüdische Autorschaft im Vormärz im Spannungsfeld von literarischer Sichtbarkeit, staatlicher Regulierung und zensurpolitischer Praxis untersucht werden soll. Im Fokus stehen Zuschreibungen durch Zensoren als vigilante Leser, Codierungen latenten Antisemitismus, Ambivalenzen öffentlicher Wahrnehmung sowie Strategien jüdischer Autor:innen zur sprachlichen und publizistischen Selbstbehauptung.
Bewerbungsfrist: 20. Juli 2025 | DETAILS
The Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the Middle East invites proposal for an international research workshop “Utopias among Jews in Islamic countries: Theory and practice” exploring utopian literature, utopian thinking (including critiques of utopias), and utopian movements that attempted to make such visions a reality in Islamic countries. The workshop will take place in November 2, 2025.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
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 researchers to submit proposals for presentations at a workshop in September 14-15, 2025.
Focus is the book and the library in Jewish communities in Islamic lands and in their diasporas. The workshop will address manuscripts and printed works from the Middle Ages until the modern era. The workshop will address these topics among Jewish communities throughout the Islamicate world, Asia, Ethiopia, and Sephardic diasporas all over the world.
The workshop will be open exclusively to scholars whose proposals have been accepted, with the aim of enabling in-depth discussions. Each scholar will be required to submit a source or text central to their presentation in advance.
Submissions for presentations or panels can be in Hebrew or English.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 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: July 1, 2025 │ DETAILS
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education calls for applications for the sixth cohort of the Doctoral Fellows Program. The program is designed to provide advanced doctoral students from North American and Israeli universities with substantial support in their research endeavors related to Jewish education. The program will be led by Dr. Ilana Horwitz, Assistant Professor and Fields-Rayant Chair of Contemporary Jewish Life at Tulane University.
Deadline for applications: July 15, 2025 | DETAILS
Yidish-vokh is an annual weeklong Yiddish-language immersion retreat. It began in 1976 when Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter brought students from the advanced class from the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program to Camp Boiberik so they could spend a weekend immersed in Yiddish. Since then Yidish-vokh has evolved to become the only Yiddish-speaking vacation spot where students, families, and seniors from all levels of observance can come together for a week to speak only Yiddish.
August 15-21, 2025 in Copake, NY, USA | DETAILS
Yiddish-Vokh Scholarships
In order to make Yidish-vokh affordable for as many interested students as possible, the organziers offer a limited number of “pay what you can” scholarships (supported by the Chana Yachness z”l Fund and individual donors). These scholarships are open to anyone.
Deadline for applications: June 21, 2025 | DETAILS
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) is announcing the second round of the EAJS Small Research Grant Program (SRGP) for 2024-25. The SRGP offers support to full and student members for their individual research. Scholarly excellence as well as the potential to develop research cooperation in the disciplines constituting Jewish Studies across Europe will be key criteria.
Deadline for applications: May 29, 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 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 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
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 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 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