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International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School, July 28–August 12, Jerusalem

The First International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024.

The intensive courses about Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo, Spanyolit) the Sephardi language and culture will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Spanish, Musicology, Sociology, Anthropology and more. The courses include tours in Jerusalem, visits to Ladino collections, archival work and field work with Ladino speakers with origins in Israel, Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. 

The Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands, 18–24 November 2024

The Jewish Museum in Prague (www.jewishmuseum.cz) – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews (www.shcsj.org) and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands. This call is open to scholars from different disciplines working on a variety of topics centred around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon, 10–11 April 2024, Potsdam

Organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies together with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH); generously supported by the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies. The Hackathon is co-organized by the Network Digital Humanities, Potsdam.