International Conference on Jews and Encyclopedic Knowledge, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies with the financial assistance of the European Association for Jewish Studies invite papers for an International Conference on Jews and Encyclopedic Knowledge: 19th-21st Centuries, taking place in August 18-19, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The conference will focus on following aspects:
- history of Jewish encyclopedias in Europe, Eretz Yisrael, and the Americas;
- editors of Jewish encyclopedias and the authors of entries (Jews and non-Jews, scholars and authors from outside the academy, and so forth);
- representation of Jewish topics in general and specialized encyclopedias in non-Jewish languages;
- phenomenon of translated Jewish encyclopedias;
- institutional dimension of Jewish encyclopedias (publishers, research institutions, funding, etc.);
- role of the editor in the history of Jewish encyclopedias;
- role of encyclopedias in the development of Hebrew and Yiddish academic terminology.
The conference will host a roundtable devoted to the Bibliographic Database “Jewish Studies in Independent Ukraine”, a UAJS project implemented in partnership with UNESCO with the financial support of the European Union. The project’s team will present the results of the project, including the database website.
The organizers will also publish a collection of articles before the conference. The participants are encouraged to submit their articles in English or Ukrainian by June 10, 2026.
Deadline for applications: April 10, 2026 | DETAILS
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