According to their call, “[t]he Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton, UK, is delighted to invite applications for a Visiting Fellowship. This year’s fellowship aims to encourage research on gender or sexuality. “
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Research Associate (Praedoc) in Premodern Jewish Studies (65%)
According to their call, “[t]he position is available from 1 October on a part-time basis (25,89 hours per week). The position is to be filled for a fixed term until 30 September 2028. If the applicant meets the relevant wage requirements and has obtained the appropriate personal qualifications, the salary is based on remuneration group 13 TV-L of the pay scale for the German public sector.”
The Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies 2026, Heidelberg
According to their call, “[t]he HfJS expressly welcomes applications from scholars in adjacent fields of Jewish Studies that may currently be less represented in the HfJS curriculum, such as Critical Heritage Studies, Contemporary Jewish Studies, Musicology or Film Studies, among others. Applications from early-career scholars are also very welcome and particularly encouraged.”
Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg, 16–17 June 2025 @ University of Strasbourg
According to their call, “[a]n international conference entitled ‘Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg’ will take place at the University of Strasbourg on 16–17 June 2025. The aim of the conference is to examine the formative years of Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg – starting with the first Christian scholars to study Hebrew in the early sixteenth century within the context of Humanism and the Reformation, and until the institutionalization of Hebrew scholarship and teaching in Strasbourg in the second half of the century.”
Jews and Judaism in the Poetry and Prose of the Persian Sufi Abū Sa‘īd-i Abū l-Ḫayr
You can now read this new article by Paul B. Fenton, “Jews and Judaism in the Poetry and Prose of the Persian Sufi Abū Sa‘īd-i Abū l-Ḫayr (967–1049 CE): An Approach to the Religious Other in Medieval Islamic Society,” Religions 16(4) (2025): 476 (Open Access).
Documents Entangled: Tax Receipts from the Bamiyan Papers and the Cairo Geniza
Read this new Fragment of the Month post by Arezou Azad, “Documents Entangled: Tax Receipts from the Bamiyan Papers and the Cairo Geniza”.
Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland
Read this post by Justine Isserles about “Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland”.
Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich, “Adolf Kober, ‘Grundbuch des Kölner Judenviertels 1135–1425′”
You can now read this German article by Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich, “Adolf Kober, ‘Grundbuch des Kölner Judenviertels 1135–1425’ (1920). Kartierung einer verlorenen Welt,” Quellenpublikationen der Gesellschaft für Rheinische Geschichtskunde, ed. Stephan Laux (Cologne: Böhlau, 2025), 259–84.
The Study of Anti-Jewish Representation in Medieval Christian Europe
You can read this new paper by Marcia Kupfer, “The Study of Anti-Jewish Representation in Medieval Christian Europe (Latin West and Greek East): a Critical Historiographical Overview,” Studies in Iconography 46.8 (2025).
Database: Hebrew and Latin Charters from the Cologne Jewish Shrine Book (St. Laurenz Parish)
This digital edition compiled by Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Innsbruck University, provides first-time access to the entire corpus of Hebrew and a large selection of Latin charters from the so-called Judenschreinsbuch of Cologne’s St. Laurenz parish, dating from 1235 to 1347. These documents reflect key legal and social transactions in the medieval Jewish quarter – from property sales to marriage contracts – and illustrate everyday interactions between Jewish and Christian communities.
The database is intended user-friendly, and the tanscriptions and translations are available for download. Over three quarters of the documents are currently accessible, with the remaining ones being added continuously.