Call for applications: Fritz Halbers Fellowship, Leo Baeck Institute

The LBI announces the availability of one or more fellowship per year for students enrolled in a Ph.D. program at an accredited institution of higher education. The fellowships provide financial assistance to scholars whose research projects are connected with the culture and history of German-speaking Jewry.

The fellowship(s) consists of an award, not exceeding $ 3000–, to be determined according to the requirements of the project. The fellowship should be used by the end of the year in which it was granted. Support for travel or family members is not available.

Deadline: November 16, 2021


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About Martina Mampieri

Martina Mampieri holds a double Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies at the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg. She is currently a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she works on her second book project on Isaiah Sonne. In 2018-20, she held other postdoctoral positions at Sapienza University of Rome, the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes in Paris, Harvard University, and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg at Georg-August-University of Göttingen. She is the author of Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche, 16th cent. (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020) as well as several articles on Italian Jewry and books in the early modern period.