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CfA Jewish Philosophy (TT position) at Bar Ilan University
January 2021 -
The Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Department of Jewish Thought (Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah),
with a specialization in Early Modern Jewish Thought in Muslim Lands.
Deadline for applications in English or Hebrew: February 1, 2021: Details
CfA Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews
Januar 2021 -
The Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg is looking for a new director.
Deadline for applications: January 31, 2021: Details [in German]
Tenure Track Position in Jewish Education and Pedagogy
DECEMBER 2020 -
The Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg welcomes applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship (W1) in Jewish Education and Pedagogy.
Deadline for application: February 15, 2021: Details
Assistant Professor (W1 TT) for Medieval Jewish History
DECEMBER 2020 -
The University of Trier welcomes applications for an Assistant Professor, as a W1 position with tenure track for Jewish History
and the History of Interreligious Encounter in the Middle Ages, starting April 2022.
Deadline for applications: 15. January 2021: Details
CfA: Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for doctoral candidates
DECEMBER 2020 -
The German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) welcomes applications for its international Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme for the Academic Year 2021/22.
The programme is open to doctoral candidates and offers up to 12 fellowships for projects focussing on the history and culture in Central European Jewry. Projects are welcomed from any period, field and region. The Leo Baeck Programme is jointly organized with the Leo Baeck Institute London.
Deadline: February 1, 2021: Details
2022 LBI Year Book Essay Prize
NOVEMBER 2020 - The Leo Baeck Institute London welcomes applications for its 2022 Essay Prize, promoting new research on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry by young researchers in the field. The winning essay will be published in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Deadline: March 31, 2021: Details
Calls for Papers #4
NOVEMBER 2020 -
Recent survey
The Menasseh ben Israel Instituut welcomes papers for its 15th International Symposium on the History and Culture of the Jews in the Netherlands with the topic The Imperial Turn in Dutch Jewish History, June 1-2, 2021.
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2020: Details
Edited volume on the Canaanite Movement (the 'Young Hebrews') in the 1940s and 1950s, edited by Shai Feraro and Ofri Krischer.
Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2020: Details
Special issue on Jewish cemeteries in the Holocaust of the journal Revue d'histoire de la Shoah edited by the Mémorial de la Shoah. Abstracts can be in French or English.
Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2020: Details
Special volume for the journal Iyunim on American Jewry in Israel: Challenges, Images, and Influence.
Deadline for abstracts: December 20, 2020: Details
The Center for Holocaust Research at Western Galilee College welcomes proposals for the 2nd international researchers' workshop on The Usage of Ego-documents in Jewish Historical research, May 26-27, 2021, via Zoom.
Deadline for proposals: January 14, 2021: Details
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute Fellowships 2021/22
OCTOBER 2020 - The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies (VWI)] welcomes applications for several fellowships for the academic year 2021/22. Funding is available for 2 Senior Fellows, 2 Research Fellows, 1 VWI-Fortunoff Research Fellow and 4 Junior Fellows. Deadline for all fellowships: January 17, 2021: Details