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The AJS announces the 2025 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, made possible by Jordan Schnitzer through the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Family Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation.
The AJS annually awards one winner and one finalist in each of four categories. The categories rotate over a two-year cycle, for a total of eight categories. New to 2025, each winner will receive $15,000 and each finalist will receive $5,000.
Books in any of the following fields are eligible for consideration:
Jewish Literature and Linguistics; Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture; Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania; and Philosophy and Jewish Thought
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The University of Trier and the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf invite to the XXVIII Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany at the University of Trier.
Contributions in all research fields of Yiddish Studies as well as interdisciplinary research with a Yiddish connection will be considered.
September 1-3, 2025 in Trier | DETAILS
The editors of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics (ZRGP) call for submissions for a special issue of the journal that seeks to bring historical insight into critical dialogue with contemporary analysis of the long durée of antisemitism and its transformations. Contributions should interrogate how religious traditions, political ideologies, and social movements have shaped, and continue to shape, the many manifestations of antisemitism.
Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The editors invite submissions of volumes and monograph proposals for the series Research in Latin American Jewish Studies (RLAJS). RLAJS seeks to redefine and expand the boundaries of Jewish and Latin American Jewish Studies. The focus will be on contemporary phenomena and the historical development of Jewish cultures in Latin America, including its islands and the Caribbean.
Proposals in multiple languages (including Jewish languages) are welcome,
aligning with the Latin American Jewish Studies Association’s (LAJSA) advocacy for the multilingualism inherent in Jewish cultures. Moreover, LAJSA seeks contributions that foster interdisciplinary dialogues and methodological experimentation.
The journal Hagut invites research proposals from various disciplines for a special issue on the topic of Haredi education. The aim of the special issue is providing comprehensive, multidsciplinary knowledge on education in Haredi society in Israel and worldwide, with an emphasis on generating knowledge that has practical applications. Submissions in Hebrew and English within different frameworks and methodological approaches are encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The editors of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies, Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston from the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, are seeking chapter proposals and welcome interdisciplinary contributions. The volume aims to reimagine the field of book history for contemporary readers. It is organized around five thematic sections:
- I. Terminology: Rethinking Core Concepts,
- II. Materialities of the Book,
- III. Technologies of Textual Transmission,
- IV. Book History in Practice: Teaching, Theory, and Public Engagement
- V. Book Studies in the Workplace
Deadline for proposals: September 30, 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 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 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.