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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for a tenure-track position in Yiddish Studies within the Faculty of Humanities. The position is open to candidates from all areas of Yiddish Studies and at all academic ranks who hold a Ph.D.

The primary language of instruction at the Hebrew University is Hebrew. However, candidates may teach advanced-level courses in English. Candidates not yet proficient in Hebrew will be expected to acquire proficiency during their initial years at the University.

Deadline for applications: June 25, 2025 | DETAILS

The Center for the Study of Antisemitism at New York University invites applications for the AddressHate Postdoctoral Associate in Antisemitism Studies beginning January 1, 2026. The position is a one-year research position with the possibility of renewal for another year.

The Postdoctoral Associate in Antisemitism Studies is a research position with no formal teaching duties. The associate will participate actively in the academic activities of the Center for the Study of Antisemitism and is encouraged to make full use of the scholarly resources available throughout the University. The Postdoctoral Associate will be able to take advantage of research materials available at the NYULibraries, the New York Public Library, the Center for Jewish History, and beyond.

Deadline for applications: June 30, 2025 | DETAILS

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 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

NLI Resnick Fellowships for Senior Academics and Emerging Scholars

The National Library of Israel (NLI) calls for applications for the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowships. Resnick Fellowships are designed for candidates to join the library as researchers in residence with on-site access to the NLI collections.

• Two Senior Fellowships will be awarded to tenured (or tenure-equivalent) professors.
• Two Emerging Scholar Fellowships will be awarded to academics holding full-time positions who completed their doctoral degrees within the last four years.

Deadline for applications: June 30, 2025 | DETAILS

The Department of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Erfurt is seeking to fill a W2-professorship for Religious Studies with a focus on transnational relations from 1 October, 2026. The focus of the professorship is on Judaism in Europe and its transnational and global relations since the early modern period. The candidate is expected to specialise on Judaism in Europe and its transnational and global relations in the early modern period and the presence with at least one of the following focuses: History of knowledge and science, material culture or written culture, gender history, migration research, transnational and global history, transfer history.

Deadline for applications: June 24, 2025 | DETAILS

The Tikvah Institut gUG is seeking to fill a position (60%) as research assistant for the project Das Israelbild in deutschen Print- und Onlinemedien from 1 July, 2025. The research project analyses the portrayal of Israel in German print and online media. In particular, it analyses problematic narratives and anti-Semitic stereotypes and topoi in reporting. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The project is scheduled to run until the end of May 2027.

The work will be carried out at the institute’s offices in Berlin-Mitte.

Deadline for applications: May 25, 2025 | DETAILS (in German)

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg is seeking a junior professor with tenure track (W1TTW2) of Jewish Studies. The candidate must have a focus on at least one of the following research areas:

• rabbinic literature
• medieval biblical exegesis
• material cultures (manuscript studies and printed works)
• intellectual exchange processes and the history of entanglement in ancient, medieval and/or early modern Judaism

Deadline for applications: June 19, 2025 | DETAILS

The COFUND fellowship program “Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship” at the University of Münster is seeking to fill four fixed-term positions as early-career Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in to commence on May 1, 2026. A completed PhD in one of COFUND’s research areas is required (i.e., in the social sciences or the humanities).

Deadline for applications: June 27, 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 DFG program Specialised Information Services for Science, 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;
• the 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 27, 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).

The Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF is seeking to fill a W2 academic professorship in the field of "Jewish Film and Audiovisual Memory" as of January 1, 2026. The professorship comprises the supervision of the academic fields of Jewish film history and research, audiovisual memory as well as anti-Semitism in film with a clear focus on Jewish film. The post holder will also be responsible for the academic management of the Center for Jewish Film and Audiovisual Memory, which is currently being founded.

Deadline for applications: May 25, 2025 | DETAILS

The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg is seeking to fill the position of a research assistant to coordinate the certificate program in Jewish Studies.

In addition to a teaching obligation in the field of Jewish Studies of 2.5 SWS, the position includes the coordination, organisation and further development of the cross-faculty study and event program of the certificate program in Jewish Studies, including the organisational and administrative support of the Visiting Professorship of Jewish Cultural History. The position aims to qualify young academics.

Deadline for applications: May 31, 2025 | DETAILS

The Center for Judaic Studies (CJS) at the University of Denver invites applications for a three-year appointment as the Emil & Eva Hecht Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Antisemitism Studies. Qualified candidates with knowledge and experience in the study of antisemitism in its many contexts are encouraged to apply. The candidate will teach two Judaic Studies courses focused on Holocaust and antisemitism studies over three academic quarters each year of appointment, direct the CJS’s Holocaust Awareness Institute, and expand its flagship Survival and Witness online platform. A PhD in Holocaust Studies or Antisemitism Studies, or a similarly relevant field is required. | DETAILS

Deadline for applications with preferred consideration: August 1, 2025

Deadline for applications: October 1, 2025

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 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).

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

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

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

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

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