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The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library invite submissions for the annual Award for Best Book in Israel Studies. The award is open to authors worldwide. Books under consideration must be in English and published during 2024 or 2025. Previously submitted books are not eligible. Past winners include, among others, Shay Hazkani and his book Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War and Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler and their book Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment. The 2025 winner will be invited to the award ceremony in Montreal and receive a prize of $1000 Canadian dollars.

Deadline for submissions: October 30, 2025 | Details

The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College invites applications for the 2026-27 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations. The one-year visiting appointment is renewable for a second year. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. and have a demonstrated record of publication in the field. Applications from all relevant disciplines are welcome.

Deadline for applications: November 1, 2025 | Details

The Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in the Faculty of the Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in History of the Holocaust. Applicants must have earned a PhD degree in History or a related field, with a clearly demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching with a focus on the History of the Holocaust. Along with a research focus on the experiences of Jewish victims and survivors, approaches of potential interest may include: comparative and/or transnational methodologies; microhistories; and historical intersections that may include disability, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Command of languages relevant to the subject area is essential.

Deadline for applications: October 21, 2025 | DETAILS

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust and related topics for projects that will benefit from a period of residence at the Museum and access to its resources. Proposals can focus thematically on e.g. anthropology, archaeology, art history, history, Jewish studies, law and material culture. Fellowships are designed for scholars at all levels of career, starting with PhD candidates (ABD). Project proposals should specify the resources available at the Museum to which candidates need access for their research.

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2025 │DETAILS

The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards fellowships to international postdocs conducting research in European history, the history of religion, and other historical disciplines (including Digital Humanities). The IEG funds research projects on European history from the early modern period to contemporary history. The fellowship is intended to help you develop your own research project in close collaboration with scholars working at the IEG and to contribute to its ongoing research activities.

Deadline for applications: October 15, 2025 | DETAILS

The Department of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, invites applications for the Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. The candidat must be historian of the early modern and/or modern Jewish experience with broad scholarly interests addressing Jewish communities and their interactions with non-Jewish neighbors in comparative, global and diasporic perspectives.

Deadline for applications: October 13, 2025 | DETAILS

The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research – JTS invites scholars to apply for a grant for the publication of an outstanding doctoral dissertation into a book in one of the Institute’s areas of research: the history of the Hebrew book, halakhah (responsa literature), Jewish history, Kabbalah and Hasidut, Hebrew literature, and women’s and gender studies in Jewish studies. The book will be published by the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research or in cooperation with another academic publisher.

The completed manuscript must be submitted no later than two years after the grant is awarded.

Deadline for applications: September 14, 2025 | DETAILS

The Jüdisches Museum Berlin seeks to fill a full-time position of the Head of the Archive Department. The collections of the Jewish Museum Berlin represent the lives and legacies of German Jews through images, objects, artwork and documents. The archive is part of these collections. The department catalogs, preserves and acquires family collections, personal estates and individual items pertaining to German-Jewish history and culture from the Middle Ages to the present. The holdings are prepared and made available to the public through exhibitions, online presentations and educational programs. The archive also houses a branch of the Leo Baeck Institute Archive, as well as a branch of the Wiener Library in London.

Deadline for applications: August 24, 2025 | DETAILS

The Institute for Sacred Music at Yale University invites applications for long-term and short-term interdisciplinary fellowships. Fellows work in a variety of academic and artistic disciplines.

Deadline for applications: October 15, 2025 | DETAILS

The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize, annually awarding nine prizes of $300,000 each to early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work. The nominees can come from all disciplines such as history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities and human palaeontology, as well as independent scholars, public historians, museum curators and documentary filmmakers.

Self-nominations will not be considered.

Deadline for nomination: September 24, 2025 | DETAILS

The University of California, San Diego, seeks to fill the position of an Associate/Full Professor, Endowed Chair in the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Times and Contemporary Media. Candidates must be proficient in the cultural study of the Hebrew Bible, with research and instruction pertaining to themes including oral/scribal cultures of Judaism, historical criticism and textual analysis, genre studies, oral interpretation studies, translation and performance studies, etc. Preference will be given to candidates with written and spoken fluency in Hebrew.

Reviews of applications start: August 25, 2025 | DETAILS

The German Research Foundation (DFG) priority program Jüdisches Kulturerbe seeks to fill two positions as Research Assistant for the project “Jewish World Heritage – Local Jewish Heritage in Germany: Shifts in Meaning, Valuation and Perspectives for Transformation”. The project is being carried out by the Heidelberg Centre for Cultural Heritage (HCCH) at the University of Heidelberg and the Ignatz Bubis Chair for History, Religion and Culture (IBLS) at the Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies.

Deadline for applications: August 31, 2025 | DETAILS

The Jewish Studies Program at Oberlin College and Conservatory seeks an instructor to teach introductory modern Hebrew during the Winter Term (January 5-28, 2026) as part of a course on “Exploring Jewish Languages.” Housing in Oberlin, transportation costs, and a stipend will be provided.

Deadline for applications: August 15, 2025 | DETAILS

The Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES) offers PhD scholarships for up to 3 years. The application portal is open from September 1-30, 2025, for Jewish doctoral candidates with proven expertise, within all subject areas and disciplines (with the exception of dissertations leading to a Dr. med. degree) as well as candidates conducting research on Jewish topics.

Deadline for applications: September 30, 2025 | DETAILS

Das internationale Graduiertenkolleg “Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond” ist ein Kooperationsprojekt der Hebräischen Universität, der Universität Leipzig und dem Leibniz-Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow zur Qualifizierung für herausragende internationale Promovierende. Es wird gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Alfred Landecker-Stiftung.

Im internationalen Graduiertenkolleg „Belongings“ arbeiten deutsche, israelische und andere internationale Forscherinnen und Forscher aus allen akademischen Karrierestufen. Hier wird die jüdische Geschichte auf substanzielle und innovative Weise durch die Analyse ihrer Welt der Objekte rekonstruiert, erzählt und erinnert. Mit einem objektzentrierten Ansatz strebt das Graduiertenkolleg an, neue Instrumente zur Analyse jüdischen Lebens in Europa und seiner Verflechtungen mit der nicht-jüdischen Umgebung zu implementieren. Die fünf Forschungscluster des internationalen Graduiertenkollegs (Practice, Ownership, Text, Memory, Stage) ermöglichen die Erforschung jüdischer materieller Kulturen in Europa und den Gebieten jüdischer (erzwungener) Emigration vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert aus multidisziplinärer Perspektive.

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The EHRI invites applications for the EHRI-ERIC Conny Kristel Fellowship Programme which supports and stimulates Holocaust research and documentation. It is open to researchers, archivists, librarians, curators and other relevant professionals at all career stages, but we particularly welcome applications by early career practitioners such as PhD students. Conny Kristel Fellowships include a stipend towards housing and living expenses as well as reimbursement of reasonable travel costs to and from the host institution.

Deadline for applications: September 28, 2025 | DETAILS

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the Harvard University seeks to fill the position of a tenured professor in Jewish Studies, with a specialization in Jewish history, religion, and culture in antiquity and/or late antiquity. The candidate should demonstrate expertise in Rabbinic and other Jewish literatures of the ancient world; facility with the relevant languages; deep knowledge of the surrounding civilization(s) in which Jews were embedded, i.e., some combination of Hellenistic, Roman, Eastern or Western Christian, and/or Zoroastrian; command of relevant disciplines in the Humanities including historical method.

Review starts on: September 1, 2025 | DETAILS

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 Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to fill the position of a director, who will also serve as a tenured full professor on the Jewish Studies faculty and in a department consistent with their area of academic specialization.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in any field associated with Jewish Studies, priority areas of specialization include Jews of the Medieval/Early Modern World, North American Jewish Literature, North American Jewish History, and Latin American Jewish History.

Review of applications starts: September 15, 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

The National Library of Israel (NLI) invites applications from outstanding doctoral students and post-docs in Jewish studies, Israel studies, Islam and Middle East, music, and general humanities (Western culture, history of sciences), who are planning to reside in Israel for research purposes during the 2025–2026 academic year.

The program offers the affiliation with the National Library of Israel (including Research Card), access to the researchers-only area in the NLI Ilona and Hugo Lowy Reading Halls, personal consultations with the Library’s staff (curators and librarians), seminars for presenting and discussing research, academic exchange with scholars and a one-time grant of $1000.

Deadline for applications: August 31, 2025 | DETAILS

Das Institut für Zeitgeschichte München–Berlin (IfZ) sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Team-Assistenz zur Unterstützung des vom Bundesministerium des Innern geförderten Projekts „Aufarbeitung des Anschlags auf die israelische Olympia-Mannschaft vom 5. September 1972 während der Olympischen Spiele in München sowie seiner Vor- und Nachgeschichte“.

Die Teamassistenz soll die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler organisatorisch und administrativ bei der Bearbeitung des Projekts unterstützen. Die Stelle mit Standort München ist bis Ende Dezember 2026 befristet.

Bewerbungsfrist: 24. Juli 2025 | DETAILS

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

Das Jüdische Museum Gailingen sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in im Bereich Dokumentation/Archiv in Teilzeit (50% auf 4 Jahre). Träger des Museums ist der Verein für jüdische Geschichte Gailingen e.V. Als historisches Museum dokumentiert es exemplarisch die jüdische Geschichte im Hegau und am Hochrhein und veranschaulicht die Lebenswelten Gailinger Jüdinnen und Juden vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die 1940er Jahre.

Bewerbungsschluss: 30. September 2025 | DETAILS

The National Science Center (NCN) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) co-funded project “Non-Ukrainians in Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–1921” (NURU) invites prospective candidates to join this collaborative four-years project with one research team at the Polish Academy of Sciences and another one at the University of Vienna.

NURU aims to reinterpret one of the most critical periods in modern Ukrainian history – the revolutionary changes of 1917-1921 that brought fundamental transformations of the political system, economic relations, and social and cultural life in the Ukrainian lands – by exploring the diverse experiences of non-Ukrainian populations.

Deadlines for applications: August 1 and September 10, 2025 | DETAILS

Am Fritz Bauer Institut wird zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt für 24 Monate das Jürg Breuninger-Promotionsstipendium ausgeschrieben. Das Stipendium wird für Forschungsvorhaben im Bereich der Geschichte und Wirkung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen, insbesondere des Holocaust, vergeben. Voraussetzung ist ein sehr guter akademischer Abschluss im Fach Neuere und Neueste Geschichte bzw. Zeitgeschichte (Master, Magister oder Staatsexamen) mit einem Schwerpunkt in der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie Erfahrung im Umgang mit zeithistorischen Quellen. Das Promotionsvorhaben wird am Lehrstuhl zur Erforschung der Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main angesiedelt sein, der mit dem Fritz Bauer Institut verbunden ist. Die Promotionsordnung des Historischen Seminars der Goethe-Universität ist verpflichtend.

Bewerbungsschluss: 25. Juli 2025 | DETAILS

Der Bezirk Unterfranken sucht zum 1. November 2025 eine neue Leitung des Johanna-Stahl-Zentrums für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Unterfranken in Vollzeit. Das Johanna Stahl-Zentrum ist das Kompetenzzentrum für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in Unterfranken und wird vom Bezirk Unterfranken und der Stadt Würzburg als gleichberechtigten Partnern betrieben. Der Auftrag des Zentrums ist die Erforschung, Darstellung und Vermittlung der reichen jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur in Unterfranken. Das Johanna Stahl-Zentrum ist im Jüdischen Gemeindezentrum Shalom Europa in Würzburg angesiedelt, in dem sich auch das Museum der jüdischen Gemeinde befindet.

Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Juli 2025 | DETAILS

The Fritz Bauer Institute offers funding for a visiting researcher focusing on the history of the Nazi murder of the sick in Europe and its consequences or on other questions related to the history of medicine during the Nazi era and its aftermath. The funding period is twelve months and particularly aimed at historians from Eastern Europe.

Application deadline: July 25, 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

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 University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg (HfJS) invites applications for the Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies for the summer term 2026 (April 1 – September 30, 2026). The professorship is dedicated to the teaching of Jewish history and culture at the HfJS.

The HfJS expressly welcomes applications from scholars in adjacent fields of Jewish Studies that may currently be less represented in the HfJS curriculum, such as Critical Heritage Studies, Contemporary Jewish Studies, Musicology or Film Studies, among others. Residing in Heidelberg during the teaching semester is expected.

Deadline for applications: July 11, 2025 | DETAILS

The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris, France, invites candidates for two Doctoral / Post-Doctoral scholarships in the field of Hebrew Paleography and Manuscript Studies.

Paleography 1: “Medieval Hebrew Liturgical Manuscripts: Between France and Germany”

Paleography 2: “The Mishnah, the Talmud and their Commentaries: Codicology, Paleography and Book History”

ERC-Synergy programme MiDRASH is composed of four teams led respectively by Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (EPHE, PSL), Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE, PSL/Oxford), Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv-University), Avi Shmidman (Bar Ilan University), in collaboration with the National Library of Israel and Haifa University. Its overall aim is to advance our understanding of the literary, textual and manuscript production processes in Ancient and Medieval Judaism by applying computational methods to transcribe and analyse thousands of medieval Hebrew manuscripts. For a brief presentation of the project please check the homepage.

Deadline for applications: July 11, 2025 | DETAILS

Die Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz sucht für das Projekt „With Your Own Voice – Perspectives on Holocaust Education and Jewish Empowerment“ eine Mitarbeiter*in zur inhaltlichen und organisatorischen Mitarbeit. Ziel des Projekts ist es, bedarfsgerechte Konzepte, Methoden und Materialien für die Auseinandersetzung mit Nationalsozialismus und Shoah in jüdischen Schulen und an Gedenkstätten zu entwickeln und zu erproben.

Bewerbungsfrist: 30. Juni 2025 | DETAILS

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 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 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 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

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

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

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