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Die Universität Salzburg sucht eine*n wiss. Mitarbeiter*in mit Schwerpunkt Judaistik/Jüdische Kulturgeschichte an der Universität Salzburg zur wissenschaftlichen Unterstützung im Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb im Bereich Judaistik/Hebraistik sowie Mitarbeit im FWF-Projekt "Wörterbuch der Lehnwörter im Jalkut Schimoni" zu besetzen.
Bewerbungsfrist: 11. Februar 2026 | DETAILS
The Department of Religious Studies, Program in Judaic Studies, and Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University invite applications for a two-year appointment as International Humanities Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Jewish mystical tradition. Focus of research should be on Jews and Judaism in the Sephardic or Islamic worlds; comparative mysticism; and the intersection of Kabbalah and hermeneutics within a wider humanistic frame.
Deadline for applications: February 1, 2026 | 11:59 PM ET | DETAILS
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) invites applications to the EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies for the academic year 2026/27, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
Details: https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/conference-grant-programme/
The Kislak Center at the Penn Libraries invites scholars for a bi-annual, one-month fellowship, expected to take place in the summer of 2026 to work with the extensive resources of the Lorraine Beitler Collection of the Dreyfus.
Fellows will also have access to the wide-ranging collections of the Kislak Center, including the collections of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Deadline for applications: April 3, 2026 | DETAILS
The RWTH Aachen seeks to fill a W2 university professorship in European Jewish Literature and
Cultural History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, starting on September 1, 2027. The professorship is located in the Department of Modern German Literature at the Institute of German and General Literature.
The profile of German-language literature in its European, (inter)media, praxeological and intellectual-historical contexts is to be expanded to include a European perspective. This perspective can either consist of a focus on multilingualism or a comparative orientation or a special consideration of intercultural aspects, for example in the context of exile literature.
Deadline for applications: 26 February 2026 | DETAILS
The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, University of Haifa invites applications for the Manfred Lahnstein Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Haifa in 20th-Century German Studies for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. The fellowship of 90000 NIS (together with office facilities) will be granted for research at the University of Haifa.The Lahnstein Fellowship supports innovative research on 20th-century German history, culture, and society, including its evolving national boundaries, diasporas and exiles.
Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026 | DETAILS
The Library of Congress seeks to fill the position of a Supervisory Librarian (Hebraic Section Head). This position is located in the General and International Collections Directorate, Researcher and Collections Services. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. MA in Jewish Studies or equivalent and a minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience is preferred, not required.
Deadline for applications: January 28, 2026 | DETAILS
The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, invites submissions for its annual Howard I. Friedman Memorial Graduate Essay Prize (The Friedman Prize) for perspectives on American Jewish experience. To coincide with Jewish American Heritage Month, this year’s essay topic asks entrants to explore the role of counterculture in shaping the American Jewish experience. Graduate students at universities and seminaries with a terminal MA or PhD awarded no earlier than 2022 are eligible.
Deadline for applications: February 28, 2026 | DETAILS
The TH Köln seeks to fill three postdoc positions as research assistants in different thematic areas for the DfG research project ‘Cultural Memory in Crisis’
The thematic focus areas of the postdoctoral positions are:
- Cultural Assets and Heritage
- Urban Memory in Post-Migrant Society
- Digital Culture of Memory
Application deadline: January 18, 2026 | DETAILS
AAJR provides grants for dissertation research grants. The funds are not intended for language study or equipment. Funding is available to Ph.D. graduate students in any field of Jewish studies at a North American university.
Deadline for applications: February 2, 2026 | DETAILS
The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize ($3,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish studies. Eligibility: An academic book in English, in any area of Jewish studies, published in calendar year 2025. The work must be the author’s first scholarly book. Authors must have received their Ph.D. within the previous ten years, no earlier than 2015.
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2026 | DETAILS
The board of organizers invite submission for an international conference on Shifting Paradigms, New Horizons: The Abraham Accords, U.S.–Israel Relations, and the Future of the Middle East, April 19, 2026 - April 21, 2026 at the University of Cincinnati and Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. This conference seeks to examine the Abraham Accords within the broader arc of US-Israel relations and Middle Eastern diplomacy, combining historical depth with forward-looking analysis.
Hybrid participation options will be available for select sessions, with priority given to international participants.
Deadline for submissions: February 13, 2026 | DETAILS
The Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston invites applications for the Dale Rosengarten Archival Studies Summer Fellowship. The Rosengarten Fellowship is a six-week working archival position that will provide the recipient with funding support and working experience in exchange for a stipend of $6,000 and coverage of up to $2,000 in travel costs.
Candidates for the fellowship should be MA, MLIS, or PhD students interested in archival and library sciences, history, or related fields.
Deadline for applications: February 15, 2026 | DETAILS
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) invites applications for its annual Fellowship Program for the upcoming academic year (July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027). The AJA’s Fellowship Program provides recipients with month long fellowships for research and writing at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, a division of Hebrew Union College. Fellowship stipends will be sufficient to supplement transportation and living expenses while in residence in Cincinnati.
The deadline to apply is February 20, 2026 | DETAILS
Die Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Amberg sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Projektkoordinator*in für eine Workshop-Reihe zu Antisemitismus-Prävention für Schulen. Die Stelle ist auf ein Jahr befristet und umfasst 20 Std./Woche.
Bewerbungsfrist: 18. Januar 2026 | DETAILS
Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden invites applications for its One-Year Jewish Studies Program, with focus on classical Jewish studies and contemporary perspectives.
The core of the program consists of courses that introduce key aspects of the Jewish textual tradition. The program also includes seminars that address various aspects of Jewish studies, expanding the scope of textual discussions and situating Jewish culture within both historical and contemporary challenges. Additionally, it features a multi-level Hebrew language course, a course on Talmud and Torah study, and a study trip to a European Jewish institution.
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026 | DETAILS
Das Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart sucht für das vom Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg geförderten Projekts „NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenes Kulturgut: Förderung der systematischen Provenienzforschung“ eine*n Provenienzforscher*in (m/w/d) in Vollzeit. Die Stelle ist im Rahmen des Projekts für die Dauer von drei Jahren befristet. Der Arbeitsort ist Stuttgart.
Deadline for applications: January 18, 2026 | DETAILS
The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg seeks to fill the position of a Guest Professor in Jewish Cultural History. “Jewish Cultural History” is understood broadly and includes all historical periods as well as Jewish literature and culture from antiquity to the present. A focus within the field of film studies is desirable.
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026 | DETAILS
The Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam awards Hilde Robinsohn-Guest Fellowship "European-Jewish Studies" for stays of up to four months. Applicants must be at least postdoctoral fellows working on a project in one of the fields related to research fields at the MMZ, such as Israel Studies, modern and contemporary Jewish history, Jewish and German-German history (with a particular focus on GDR history), the history of the German-Jewish Diaspora, Digital Jewish History, Film History or research on antisemitism and right-wing extremism – whether from a historical, cultural studies, literary studies, or sociological perspective.
Bewerbungsfrist: 2. Februar 2026 | DETAILS
The Unit of Judaic Studies at Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich in collaboration with the academic publisher De Gruyter Brill invite applications for the Moritz Steinschneider Prize. The Prize is specifically aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the development and analysis of Jewish primary sources in their research. Eligible for the Prize are unpublished research works (MA theses, doctoral theses, and Habilitations) which engage with primary sources in one of the following ways: the identification of previously unknown texts (in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, and other Jewish languages), their description and bibliographic cataloging, or the production of editions and translations, if these make previously inaccessible primary sources available to a broader audience.
Deadline for applications: January 15, 2026 | DETAILS
The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 2026 conference: Between Revolution and Reaction: German-Speaking Jews and the Ideas, Politics, and Cultures of the Right at the Center for Jewish History, New York in October 25-27, 2026. Topics for papers or panels at the conference should shed light on these questions with a focus on German-speaking Jewish history. Papers that investigate the actors, ideas, and events of that history, including the export and influence of thinkers and their ideas into other locales are welcome.
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2026 | DETAILS
An der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, der Philipps-Universität Marburg und der Justus-Liebig-Institut Gießen werden zehn Postdoc-Stellen im Rahmen des interdisziplinären LOEWE-Zentrums "Dynamiken des Religiösen: Ambivalente Nachbarschaften zwischen Judentum, Christentum und Islam in historischen und gegenwärtigen Konstellationen" ausgeschrieben.
Bewerbungsfrist ist der 09. Januar 2026 | DETAILS
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the 2026/2027 academic year. Researchers in the field of digital humanities working on Holocaust-related topics are encouraged to apply.
Funding is available for
- two senior fellowships,
- two to four research fellowships and
- two to four junior fellowships
to work at the Institute for a duration of five to eleven months. Experience tells that residencies between five and eleven months are the most productive for facilitating the research of the fellows at the VWI.
Deadline for applications: January 16, 2026 | DETAILS
The Alpine Peace Crossing (APC) “Verein für aktive Gedenk- und Erinnerungskultur”, based in Krimml (Salzburg), is awarding a research grant of €1,000 for 2026. APC commemorates the long-forgotten flight of Jews across the Austrian Alps in 1947 and promotes academic work dealing with the Jewish flight after liberation in 1945, post-war history, Judaism in Austria, the founding of Israel, or artistic/memorial/educational issues.
Application deadline: December 31, 2025 | DETAILS
Der Trägerverein der “Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge” sucht zum 1. August 2026 eine/n Leiter/in der Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge Wuppertal. Der/Die Leiter/in übernimmt die wissenschaftliche und organisatorische Gesamtleitung der Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge und verantwortet deren inhaltliche Weiterentwicklung im Sinne der bestehenden Satzung.
Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Januar 2026 | DETAILS
The Hebrew and Yiddish subdivision at John Hopkins University invites applications for its PhD program in Jewish Languages and Literatures. The program offers a philological, historical, and critical approach to Yiddish and Hebrew literatures.
Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026 | DETAILS
The German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington seeks to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 1, 2026. Both positions are initially limited to three years (qualification period according to WissZeitVG). There is the possibility of an extension. The place of employment is Washington, DC. If the applicant meets the criteria for a posting from Germany and fulfills the advertised position’s requirements, then remuneration will be in accordance with TVöD E13 (German Federal Government).
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2025 | DETAILS
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives invites applications for its 2026 fellowship program. In 2026, three to six fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections.
Deadline for applications: February 9, 2026 | DET
Central European University (CEU) in Vienna invites applications for its English-language program in Jewish Studies as a specialization within the MA programs of the Department of Historical Studies for the Academic Year 2026/2027.
The CEU offers three programs
MA in Historical Studies (one year)
MA in Historical Studies (two years)
MA in Museum Studies (two years)
CEU Jewish Studies offers generous grants for master’s students, in addition to the university’s financial aid, covering both tuition and basic living expenses in Vienna.
Deadline for applications: February 4, 2026 |
The Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Judaic Studies with a teaching and research focus in Jewish history and culture in global perspective. Expertise in areas as eastern Europe and Yiddish-speaking diaspora communities or Sephardic Jewry in the Middle East, North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and their diasporas are welcome. Depending on area of focus, ability to teach Hebrew or Yiddish language and literature are welcome but not required as well as courses on the Holocaust, antisemitism, and Jewish diaspora. The line has a starting date in August 2026.
Deadline for applications: January 11, 2026 | DETAILS
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University invite applications for the Sava Ranisavljevic Visiting Assistant Professorship in Judeo-Spanish Studies, a full-time position housed in the Crown Family Center, to begin September 1, 2026. One focus will be Hispanophone Jewish culture, which might include Latin American Jewish Studies, Iberian Jewish Literature, Judeo-Castilian (aka Ladino) Language or Linguistics, etc.
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (TRI) at Princeton University invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) positions in the study of modern Palestine and Israel, starting September 2026. Applications are welcome from candidates who have or expect to have a Ph.D. by September 1, 2026.
Deadline for applications: December 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kentucky invites entries for the annual Mark and Ruth Luckens Essay Competition in Jewish Thought and Culture. The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished original essay that is also suitable for oral presentation to a general audience and is written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (Ph.D. from no earlier than 2022) who does not already have a tenure-track academic position. The Luckens Prize carries an award of $500, made possible by a gift from the late Dr. Mark Luckens. In addition to the cash award, the author of the winning essay will give a public lecture in connection with University of Kentucky Jewish Studies in Spring 2026.
Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University invites applications for a competitive postdoctoral fellowship. The Fellow will be expected to be in residence, to conduct research in Duke's library and archival collections, to participate actively in the intellectual life of the university, to teach up to 2 courses per year, and to give a public lecture on their research.
Deadline for applications: January 15, 2026 | DETAILS
The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston invites applications for the Arnold Family Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish and Israel Studies beginning in Fall 2026. The Arnold Family Fellow will teach two courses per semester in Jewish and Israel Studies while continuing their own research agenda and participating in the intellectual and cultural life of the Jewish Studies Program. The Arnold Family Fellowship is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal for a second year.
To best fulfill these tasks, the Fellow is required to reside in the Charleston area and work out of the Jewish Studies Center, where office space will be provided.
Deadline for applications: January 1, 2026 | DETAILS
The Leo Baeck Institute is offering a Career Development Award as a personal grant to a scholar or professional in an early career stage, e.g. before gaining tenure in an academic institution or its equivalent, whose proposed work would deal with topics within the Leo Baeck Institute’s mission, namely historical or cultural issues of the Jewish experience in German-speaking lands.
Deadline for applications: March 3, 2025 | DETAILS
The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University invites qualified candidates to apply to the Eli Reinhard Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Reinhard Fellow will be appointed for one academic year, beginning in the Fall of 2026. Applications by scholars in all fields of Jewish Studies, including but not limited to Religious Studies, Israeli and Jewish theater, literature, art, and culture, Jewish philosophy, and Jewish history from any period are welcome.
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a position at the rank of full or associate professor to fill the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. We seek a rigorous and imaginative scholar whose research encompasses one or more of the following specializations: Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish Law in Late Antiquity or the Medieval Period, Medieval Jewish Mysticism and Philosophy, or Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Judaism.
Next review on: December 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) in Leipzig, seeks to fill a PhD Position/Research Associate position of 65% full-time equivalent (26 hours per week) in the joint research project »Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences«.
Deadline for applications: December 12, 2025 | DETAILS
The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications for the 2026-2027 Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship. Applicants must be active members of the clergy who have demonstrated serious intellectual and academic ability, interest, and energy in the pursuit of scholarship in Jewish studies.
Deadline for applications: January 15, 2026 | DETAILS
The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University seeks to fill the Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair for Holocaust Studies. It is a tenured, senior Associate or Full Professor position based on the Boca Raton campus, with appointment beginning August 2026. The position is a full-time, benefits-eligible, academic-year (9-month) appointment.
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan welcomes applications from scholars of all academic ranks for the 2026-2027 academic year. Wallenberg fellowships support original research, scholarship, and public-facing or community-based projects that support the mission of the Institute. Research fellowships are renewable on an annual basis for up to a total of three years.
Deadline for applications: December 8, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha seeks to fill the position of an assistant professor whose research focuses on the study of Israel and/or the Middle East. The position includes that its owner will serve as the Director of the Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies.
Review of applications starts on November 21, 2025 | DETAILS
The Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College seeks to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in Jews of the Islamic World, to begin July 1, 2026.
Review of applications starts on December 1, 2025 | DETAILS
The Institute for Advanced Research at the Center for Jewish History announces seven available fellowships:
- NEH Scholar in Residence 12-month Fellowship (Post-doc)
- NEH Scholar in Residence 10-month Fellowship (Post-doc)
- Robert S. Rifkind 10-month Fellowship (Senior Post-doc)
- Leon Levy 10-month Fellowship (Post-doc)
- Arcadia Graduate Student 10-month Fellowship (Pre-doc)
- Sid and Ruth Lapidus Graduate Student 10-month Fellowship (Pre-doc)
- CJH-Fordham University Short-Term Research Fellowship (Post-doc or Pre-doc)
In addition, the Center for Jewish History (CJH) invites scholars who have completed their doctorate or an equivalent degree to apply for an affiliation with the Center and to work in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room in the collections of one or more of its partner institutions (AJHS, ASF, LBI, YUM, and YIVO).
Deadline for applications: December 29, 2025 | DETAILS
The Faculty of History and Art Studies at LMU Munich is seeking to fill a temporary professorship (100%, W3) in Jewish History and Culture (m/f/d) starting in the summer semester of 2026 and ending in the summer semester of 2028. While the professorship covers the entire spectrum of the subject in research and teaching, the focus is on modern Jewish history. A fundamental knowledge of the Hebrew language is required, as well as extensive teaching experience and experience in academic self-administration.
Deadline for applications: November 21, 2025 | DETAILS
The Seminar für Judaistik, Faculty of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is seeking to fill the position of Hebrew lecturer (E 13 TV-G-U) for an initial period of three years, starting on April 1, 2026.
Deadline for applications: October 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry invites submissions for its 2027 Year Book Essay Prize. The essay can be on any topic relating to German-speaking Central European Jewry, and should have a clear focus on the German-Jewish dimension and context.
Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2026 | DETAILS
The Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures at the Ludwig Maximilians University invites applications from scholars for the Volkswagen Momentum Fellowship Programme “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies”. Eligible candidates work on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the MENA region from the early modern to modern periods.
Deadline for applications: November 3, 2025 | DETAILS
The American Academy for Jewish Research offers dissertation research grants of up to $4,000. Applications by Ph.D. graduate students in any field of Jewish studies at a North American university are welcome. Applicants must have submitted their Ph.D. Dissertation prospectus and have a demonstrated need for materials from archival, library, or manuscript collections or for ethnographic research.
Deadline for applications: February 2, 2026 | DETAILS
The Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites graduate students and advanced undergraduate students to submit presentation proposals for the 14th annual conference: Thinking Beyond Boundaries in Jewish Studies. The conference aims to explore the diverse and innovative forms of research that are reshaping the bounds of Jewish Studies today. The conference will be held on February 5-6, 2026, in-person on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. The conference is open to all graduate students working in Jewish Studies and adjacent fields.
Deadline for applications: November 7, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to fill the position of an Assistant Professor in Hebrew Bible. Basic qualification is a PhD. Applications are welcome from scholars who investigate the Hebrew Bible in its ancient contexts and are engaged in interdisciplinary questions across the humanities and/or social sciences.
Deadline for applications: October 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Antwerp is looking for a full-time doctoral scholarship holder in the field of Modern German Literature and Culture. Work will be on a PhD thesis on "Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation in 19th Century German Writing (1830-1860)" including defence.
Deadline for applications: October 14, 2025 | DETAILS
Up to three project scholarships are being offered for the realization of
an artistic project that engages with the history of the ShUM-communi-
ties and their religious, cultural, intellectual and architectural heritage.
A public presentation of the completed project is intended (e.g. exhibi-
tion, concert, reading, performance, etc.). The project should offer an
artistic approach to the ShUM heritage, taking into account both the
history and present of Judaism and its perspectives.
Deadline for applications: September 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The Department of Philosophy and the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seek to fill the position of an Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track or tenured) in the area of History of Philosophy with a research focus on Jewish Thought from antiquity to the twentieth century. Focus of research and work should lay on Jewish philosophical tradition (e.g. with authors such as Philo, Maimonides, Spinoza, Rosenzweig) or, more broadly, a philosophical approach to Jewish law, hermeneutics, politics, religion, and/or metaphysics.
Deadline for applications: October 15, 2025 | DET
Die Stiftung Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Halberstadt sucht für ein Projekt zur Provenienzforschung an potenziell NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenen Objekten jüdischer Eigentümer*innen zwei wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen
im Bereich der Provenienzforschung. Für das Projekt „Erforschung von
Objekten vermeintlich jüdischer Herkunft in der Fläche von Sachsen-Anhalt – die Tiefenprüfung nach dem Erstcheck“ besteht eine Kooperationsvereinbarung mit dem Museumsverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.
Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Oktober 2025 | DETAILS
The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, the University of Florida, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society at tha University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow invite applications for the twelfth session of the International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry.
The session will take place in Warsaw. Its purpose is to promote the research and professional development of promising early-career scholars from around the world. The faculty is led by Natalia Aleksiun, Eugene Avrutin, Israel Bartal, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Engel, Eli Lederhendler, Rebecca Kobrin, Anna Shternshis, Yfaat Weiss, and Marcin Wodziński.
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2026 | DETAILS
The German Historical Institute London awards fellowships to doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers affiliated with German universities. The fellowships enable research work that requires a stay in Great Britain or Ireland due to the availability of sources or literature.
Deadline for applications: September 30, 2025 | DETAILS
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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.
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 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 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 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
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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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