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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 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
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
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 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 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 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 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.