Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles Campus, invites applications for a tenure-track administrative and Jewish studies teaching position, to begin on January 1, 2025, or July 1, 2025 (January preferred). The discipline and rank are open; Associate Professor or Professor preferred.

The History Department at the United States Naval Academy invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Middle Eastern history. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in history or a closely related field and be U.S. citizens. The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree in history or a closely related field, and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than June 2025. Specialization within this subfield is open, but the committee welcomes applicants with expertise in premodern or early modern Middle Eastern history, broadly defined.

Review of applications begins on September 30, 2024.

The Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA) seeks to cast light on hatred directed against Jews from antiquity to the present. It is currently one of the few programs at an American university dedicated exclusively to analyzing the phenomenon of antisemitism. Since its founding in 2011, it has organized over one hundred events such as lectures and conferences as well as given out thousands of dollars of research funding to Yale faculty and students. It has also hired a series of postdoctoral associates to teach much-needed classes on antisemitism for Yale undergraduates.

The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for the Stuart B. and Barbara Padnos Professorship in Jewish Thought. Successful candidates will be appointed at the tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor rank. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of August 25, 2025.

Deadline: August 15, 2024

The Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies invites applications for the post of Research Assistant (m/f/d) in the Department of Bible and Jewish Biblical Interpretation (50% part-time position to start November 1,2024) to be filled on a temporary basis. The duration of the fixed-term contract depends on the qualification objective; an initial contract period should not be less than three years.

The Austrian Jewish Museum was the first Jewish museum to be founded in Austria after 1945. The main aim of the museum is to impart knowledge, to arouse interest in Judaism, but also to reduce misunderstandings and prejudices, to preserve Jewish culture and tradition and to promote new approaches to education and science. To this end, we are increasingly focusing on linking tradition, cultural heritage and living Judaism. If you share our values and would like to contribute to imparting knowledge in an interesting, modern and creative way, you are very welcome to join us.

The Department of Jewish History and Bible of the University of Haifa is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Wolfson Chair Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Thought for the 2024-25 academic year. The Wolfson Fellowship is designated for outstanding students registering in the departmental doctoral program and is granted for a period of four years. The annual fellowship award is in the amount of 78,000 ILS.

Application deadline: 21.05.2024, Start date: 01.11.2024, fixed until 31.12.2026

Faculty of Humanities, Department of Religions, Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University Hamburg, is looking for a Research Associate for the Project “PESHAT in Context”.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

• research on medieval Hebrew scientific and philosophical terminology:
  • textual studies
  • input and maintenance of research data in the PESHAT database
• coordination of collaborations with external scholars and other projects on external data input and cooperations in digital humanities
• organization of and participation in the projects workshops and conferences, publication of research results

Bewerbungsfrist: 08.05.2024

An der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt ist zum 01.10.2024 folgende Professur zu besetzen: Professur für Geschichte der Materialitäten (W2 mit Tenure Track auf W3) (w/m/d). Die Bewerberin*der Bewerber vertritt die Geschichte der Materialitäten in Forschung und Lehre. In der Lehre ist die Professur an allen Studiengängen des Historischen Seminars einschließlich der Lehramtsstudiengänge und Promotionsprogramme beteiligt und vertritt hier die mittelalterliche Geschichte.

Erwartet wird unter anderem Engagement in der Lehre und die Bereitschaft zur Kooperation mit Museen, Sammlungen und Institutionen in der Region, insbesondere hinsichtlich des jüdisch-mittelalterlichen Erbes in Erfurt.