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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 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 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 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 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
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.