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The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and the Misgav Yerushalayim Center for the Study of Sephardic and Oriental Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem invite researchers to submit proposals for presentations at a workshop in September 14-15, 2025.
Focus is the book and the library in Jewish communities in Islamic lands and in their diasporas. The workshop will address manuscripts and printed works from the Middle Ages until the modern era. The workshop will address these topics among Jewish communities throughout the Islamicate world, Asia, Ethiopia, and Sephardic diasporas all over the world.
The workshop will be open exclusively to scholars whose proposals have been accepted, with the aim of enabling in-depth discussions. Each scholar will be required to submit a source or text central to their presentation in advance.
Submissions for presentations or panels can be in Hebrew or English.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Ben Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the Middle East invites proposal for an international research workshop “Utopias among Jews in Islamic countries: Theory and practice” exploring utopian literature, utopian thinking (including critiques of utopias), and utopian movements that attempted to make such visions a reality in Islamic countries. The workshop will take place in November 2, 2025.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The University of Trier and the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf invite to the XXVIII Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany at the University of Trier.
Contributions in all research fields of Yiddish Studies as well as interdisciplinary research with a Yiddish connection will be considered.
September 1-3, 2025 in Trier | DETAILS
Das Leo Baeck Institut (LBI) feiert in diesem Jahr sein 70-jähriges Bestehen. An allen Standorten wird dieses Jubiläum mit zahlreiche Veranstaltungen unter dem Motto 70 Jahre LBI begangen. Am 17. Juni lädt das LBI in Berlin zu einer Festveranstaltung ein.
1955 gründeten deutsch-jüdische Emigrantinnen und Emigranten das Leo Baeck Institut, um das kulturelle Vermächtnis des deutschsprachigen Judentums zu bewahren. Die Einrichtungen des LBI widmen sich seitdem der Erforschung und Bewahrung der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. Der Namensgeber und erste Präsident des Instituts, Leo Baeck, war der letzte führende Repräsentant der jüdischen Gemeinden im Nationalsozialismus. Das LBI hat Standorte in Jerusalem, London und New York/Berlin. Zusätzlich gibt es dem LBI nahestehende Vereine. Seit 1957 besteht der Förderverein des LBI. 1989 wurde die Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (WAG) mit dem Ziel einen organisatorischen Rahmen für die Erforschung und Darstellung der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte zu schaffen, gegründet.
Festveranstaltung | 17. Juni in Berlin | Details
Yidish-vokh is an annual weeklong Yiddish-language immersion retreat. It began in 1976 when Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter brought students from the advanced class from the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program to Camp Boiberik so they could spend a weekend immersed in Yiddish. Since then Yidish-vokh has evolved to become the only Yiddish-speaking vacation spot where students, families, and seniors from all levels of observance can come together for a week to speak only Yiddish.
August 15-21, 2025 in Copake, NY, USA | DETAILS
Yiddish-Vokh Scholarships
In order to make Yidish-vokh affordable for as many interested students as possible, the organziers offer a limited number of “pay what you can” scholarships (supported by the Chana Yachness z”l Fund and individual donors). These scholarships are open to anyone.
Deadline for applications: June 21, 2025 | DETAILS
Das Leo Baeck Institut (LBI) feiert in diesem Jahr sein 70-jähriges Bestehen. An allen Standorten wird dieses Jubiläum mit zahlreiche Veranstaltungen unter dem Motto 70 Jahre LBI begangen. Am 17. Juni lädt das LBI in Berlin zu einer Festveranstaltung ein.
1955 gründeten deutsch-jüdische Emigrantinnen und Emigranten das Leo Baeck Institut, um das kulturelle Vermächtnis des deutschsprachigen Judentums zu bewahren. Die Einrichtungen des LBI widmen sich seitdem der Erforschung und Bewahrung der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur. Der Namensgeber und erste Präsident des Instituts, Leo Baeck, war der letzte führende Repräsentant der jüdischen Gemeinden im Nationalsozialismus. Das LBI hat Standorte in Jerusalem, London und New York/Berlin. Zusätzlich gibt es dem LBI nahestehende Vereine. Seit 1957 besteht der Förderverein des LBI. 1989 wurde die Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (WAG) mit dem Ziel einen organisatorischen Rahmen für die Erforschung und Darstellung der deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte zu schaffen, gegründet.
Festveranstaltung | 17. Juni in Berlin | Details
YIVO Institute’s 2025 Yiddish Civilization Lecture Series begins in June. During two lectures each week, the audience dives into the breadth and depth of Yiddish civilization in Eastern Europe, New York, and around the world. Lectures will be held in English on Tuesdays, and in Yiddish on Thursdays.
Growing out of the YIVO-Bard Uriel Weinreich Yiddish Summer Program, the lectures are part of the Summer Program curriculum, but also open to the public.
Lectures:
Starting on June 24, 2025, until July 22, 2025 | 2-3pm ET | 8-9pm CET | Details
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 | A Turning Point in Remembrance: YIVO in the 1940s | By Jeffrey Shandler | Delivered in English
Thursday, June 26, 2025 | The Poetry of Chaim Grade | By Joshua Price | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine | By Jeffrey Veidlinger | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 3, 2025 | Kine un kloglid – The Yiddish Art of Lamentation in Early Modern Ashkenaz | By Diana Matut | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 | “You had buried me, and I’ve come back!”: Manipulation, Lies, and the Archives of the Cinematic Dybbuk | By Zehavit Stern | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 10, 2025 | Yiddish Warsaw on the Hudson | By Ofer Dynes | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 | The Red Jews: Intertextuality in a Yiddish Myth | By Rebekka Voß | Delivered in English
Thursday, July 17, 2025 | The Yiddish of Jerusalem: The Old Yishuv in the Research of Mordecai Kosover | By Yaad Biran | Delivered in Yiddish
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | The People’s Torah: Crowd-Sourcing Jewish Customs from An-ski to the Internet | By Nathaniel Deutsch | Delivered in English
The Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies invites to the inaugural lecture of the new Chair of Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History, Prof Dr Michael Engel, on: Jewish Authors on Human Agency – Theological and Philosophical Reflections.
Registration is requested: registration@hfjs.eu.
The event is hybrid: http://bit.ly/3F1jF0b
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 6 pm | Details
The National Library of Israel is documenting the aftermath of October 7 on North American college campuses. On May 28, Abby Horowitz, U.S. Campus Outreach Coordinator for NLI’s Bearing Witness Archive and Dr. Chaim Neria, curator of the Haim and Hanna Salomon Judaica Collection at NLI, will be in conversation with David Makovsky, NLI USA Board President, as they explore the campus experience and NLI’s role in preserving this historical moment in real time.
Registration required.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 1 PM ET | 8 PM Israel time | 19:00 CET | DETAILS
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) and the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis University invite to the Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversation Series. The upcoming events features Noa Shashar, author of “The Marital Knot, Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850”. Shashar’s publication focuses on agunot, who were often considered a marginal group, and sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and the activity of poskim, rabbis who gave Jewish legal rulings related to agunot.
Registration is required.
May 14, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. CEST | via Zoom | DETAILS
The Marcell and Maria Roth Center for Research on the History and Culture of Jews in Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Center of Jewish History and Culture, Institute of History, University of Rzeszów, the Galicia Jewish Museum Kraków and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv invite proposals for the IV International Conference Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025. Contributions may cover a wide range of topics concerning Galician Jews.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025 via Zoom. The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in Biblical Hebrew. Each weekday, there will be 3 hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, from 11.30-13.00 and 14.00-15.30 UK time.
The cost of the school is £290 per student for 27 hours of language instruction, including all video recordings of the lectures.
Deadline for applications: July 11, 2025 | DETAILS
The German Historical Institute in Warsaw (GHIW), in collaboration with the Polish Studies Association (PSA) and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN), is organizing a network meeting for scholars at all career stages working on Polish topics in June 12-13, 2025. They invite English-speaking scholars (doctoral students, postdocs, professors) from Poland, Germany, and elsewhere who will be in Poland in mid-June to join them.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The Shalom Foundation and Center of Yiddish Culture invite you to a three-week meeting with the Yiddish language and Jewish history, literature, culture, and art in Warsaw Muranow June 30 till July 18, 2025. Focus will be thematically on the Jewish press.
The program will include language courses at four levels, lectures on the Yiddish language and culture, workshops, tutorials and other activities.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025
Scholarship application deadline: April 30, 2025
The Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands in New York between November 17–23, 2025. This call is open to scholars from different disciplines working on a variety of topics centred around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum and the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center; co-sponsored by YIVO invite to a symposium on Music, Sound, and Antisemitism May 28-29 and June 4-5, 2025.
Registration required
Dr. Veronique Sina, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, organises an interdisciplinary workshop on Jewish Visual Culture. Images of Jews and Being Jewish in art and media at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt June 12-13, 2025. The focus is on artistic media representations of Judaism and Jewishness and the role of Jewish Visual Culture Studies in German-speaking countries.
The event is part of the DFG-funded research project Queering Jewishness – Jewish Queerness. Diskursive Inszenierungen von Geschlecht und ‚jüdischer Differenz’ in (audio-)visuellen Medien at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Registration required.
The Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics invites applications for its international Summer School The Monotheistic Interreligious Moment – Past and Present for graduate students at Goethe University Frankfurt, September 7–17, 2025. Its focus will be on interreligious dynamics across a broad array of historical, systematic, and political dimensions ranging from antiquity to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025 | DETAILS
Lecture with Yair Wallach on Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem focusing on the transformation of written language in the city's streets. It investigates the emergence of enmity between Hebrew and Arabic, and the modern transformation of text into a tool of exclusion and conquest. It shows that erasure is not just used against the "enemy" but also of one's own traditions.
Registration required
April 29, 2025 19:00 CET | DETAILS
Die 15. Europäische Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems findet vom 6. bis 11. Juli 2025 statt. Sie ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung der Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, des Zentrums für Jüdische Studien der Universität Basel, des Instituts für Judaistik an der Universität Wien, der Professur für Judaistik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, der Sigi-Feigel-Gastprofessur für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Zürich, des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck, des Jewish Studies Program der Central European University in Budapest/Wien und dem Jüdischen Museum Hohenems. Die Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems 2025 steht Studierenden aller Fachbereiche offen. Bevorzugt angenommen werden Studierende der beteiligten Universitäten in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Innsbruck, München, Wien und Zürich.
Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Mai 2025 | DETAILS
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg organizes the lecture series Philosophy by Hand, that reflects on the interaction between philosophical ideas and their expression in material form. The premise is that philosophical manuscripts are not mere contains of text, but rather places where philosophy happens. This perspective leads to new questions, new methods, and new forms of cooperation among disciplines. Each lecture will convey in a friendly and engaging manner the causal role manuscripts play in philosophical activity in different languages, eras, and cultural spheres.
Registration required.
From 28.04.2025 to 15.07.2025, 4:15PM-5:45PM CET | DETAILS
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg invite proposals for papers for the international conference “Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg” at the University of Strasbourg. It takes place June 16-17, 2025. The conference focuses on Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg during the sixteenth century. The organizers are providing a list of sixteenth-century Hebraists and of possible topics.