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The editors invite submissions to an edited volume on Archives and Archival Practices in Latin American Jewish History. The volume emerged from a collaboration between The Jewish Library in Argentina project (Cynthia Gabbay) and the Jewish Archives Revisted project (Joanna Zofia Spyra). Papers on archives, archival collections, and source practices related to Latin American Jewish history are welcome.

Proposal languages and articles in: English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors invite submission for In geveb’s peer review, pedagogy, translation, and blog sections from scholars, archivists, special collections librarians, artists, musicians, and other practitioners whose work intersects either directly or conceptually with Yiddish archives. Case studies of specific archival projects that speak to the practical considerations of working with and making collections of Yiddish language, literature, and culture accessible will also be accepted. Case studies should include background information, analysis, and implications for a broader audience. For the translation section, translations of letters, diaries, memoirs, etc. written by archivists, librarians, collectors, and researchers working with/for/in institutions that have historically collected and housed Yiddish archives are welcome.

Deadline for submission: March 6, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of Casden Annual Review invite submissions to a special issue with focus on Pacific Jewish Histories to shed light on an underrepresented geography of Jewish history, East Asia and Southeast Asia, and to bring together new research within this emerging subfield.

Any topic on Jewish history and experience in the area spanning East Asia, Southeast Asia and the transpacific (broadly defined) are welcome.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

• “Port Jews”
• Jewish migration and diasporas
• Jewish networks (commercial, religious, cultural, etc.)
• Material histories and the circulation of religious objects and artifacts
• Circulation of objects, food, etc., supply chains, infrastructure
• Encounter and exchange (including intra-Jewish and Jewish and non-Jewish)
• Connection to military interventions, imperial networks and colonial regimes
• Experiences of the Second World War
• Judaism and Jewish thought in Asia/religious observance and innovation
• Jewish travel and travel narratives

Deadline for submission: April 15, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of Hispanófila invite submissions for a special issue on Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. This special issue of Hispanófila aims to survey Jewish writing from modern and contemporary Spain, thinking expansively about the languages, genres, themes, and identities that continue to shape this body of writing.

Deadline for proposals: March 6, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors call for submissions to a Special Issue of Religions that analyze the impact of polemics, conversion or the combined effect of both on medieval Jewish-Christian relations from various perspectives. The thematic approach is intentionally broad; both general investigations as well as comparative or specific case studies from the fields of Jewish studies, theology, religious studies, history, art history and literary studies as well as interdisciplinary approaches are welcome.

Deadline for intended contributions: February 28, 2026

Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 15, 2026 | DETAILS

The editors of the open access journal Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies invite contributions that explore the concept’s application to any culture or society worldwide and throughout history. Welcome are creative artworks of any media and personal reflections on this theme. Potential research topics:

• Jewish women's role in religious life;
• Jewish women’s leadership in governance, community decision-making, and legal traditions;
• Women’s roles in celebrations, festivals, and ritual life;
• Impacts of colonialism, state interventions, and militarization on gender roles;
• Ethnographic, ethnohistorical, or biographical accounts of Jewish women’s lived experiences
• Jewish myths, legends, and oral histories that reflect or resist matricultural paradigms
• Creative expressions – artworks, literary pieces, reflections, videos – exploring Jewish women’s experiences

Deadline for abstracts: January 19, 2026 | DETAILS

MLN, John Hopkins University Press, invites submissions for an inaugural issue for a new biennial issue devoted to Jewish literatures. Articles may address any aspect of Jewish literature, culture, and thought and can engage with texts in any language, especially Yiddish or Hebrew.

Deadline: March 1, 2026 | DETAILS

Laura Arnold Leibman (Princeton University) and Anabella Esperanza (Tel Aviv University) invite scholars from all academic disciplines to contribute to the forthcoming source reader: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity.

Topics of a wide range concerning the

• Material Culture and Archeological Evidence
• Ritual Purity and Religious Thought and Law
• Medical Debates
• Social Histories of Ritual Impurity
• Production of Knowledge and Transmissions
• Literary and Artistic Representations
• The Body, Embodiment and Lived Experience
• Inter-religious, Local and Transregional Comparative Frameworks
• Spatial Organization & Architecture of Ritual Baths
• Gender, Class and Authority
• Oral Histories

are welcome.

Deadline for proposals: January 20, 2026 | DETAILS

Im Juli 2025 erschien die neue Ausgabe der Onlinezeitschrift Medaon: Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung. Diese Ausgabe umfasst Beiträge aus den Bereichen Jüdische Identität(en), Auswirkungen des Überfalls der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 und Auseinandersetzung mit Antisemitismus.

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Nach zehnjähriger Arbeit am Aufbau eines Digitalen Archivs jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren in Berlin 1933–1945 (DAjAB) an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) wird das Portal am 7. Juli 2025 eröffnet.

Das Portal umfasst derzeit rund eine Million gespeicherte Informationen, um dem vergessenen literarischen Feld jener Jahre Konturen zu geben. Neben detaillierten biografischen Informationen zu den Personen, werden deren vielfach nach 1945 nicht wieder aufgelegte Bücher, Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenbeiträge und ausgewählte Sekundärliteratur aufgeführt. Darüber hinaus befinden sich bereits mehr als 4.000 digitalisierte Werke aus den Jahren 1933 bis 1945 sowie Originaldokumente und Nachlassmaterialien, Fotografien und Interviews in dem Portal. Hinzu kommen mehr als 1.000 kulturelle Veranstaltungen, Aktivitäten von etwa 2.200 Organisationen sowie Informationen über nahezu 2.800 Orte jüdischen Lebens in Berlin und dem Berliner Umfeld.

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Im April 2024 veranstaltete das Research Centre Global Dynamics in Leipzig und der NFDI4Memory den Workshop Area Histories und die NFDI4Memory: Zur Rolle der Fachinformationsdienste, auch mit Beteiligung des FID Jüdische Studien.

Daraus entstand eine spannende Artikelserie in der Online-Zeitschrift Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. Darin enthalten ist der Beitraghttps://www.connections.clio-online.net/article/id/fda-150110von Kerstin von der Krone.

Dr. Daniel Stein Kokin will present in a virtual project launch: All the Points: Interactive Online Mapping of Settlement in the Israeli-Palestinian Region (1840-2023). “All the Points” draws upon the dynamism of digital mapping to tell the story of the Israeli-Palestinian region including the Arab, European Christian, and other communities as equal parties in an ongoing narrative. Using colors and shapes, the project’s main map traces the founding, disappearance, and evolution of communities on an annual basis from 1840 down to 2023, while curated maps highlight specific features of the region’s settlement history at varying time scales.

Registration required

Monday, April 28, 2025 | 7:00 PM CET | DETAILS