You can now apply for the doctoral fellowship of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, Brandeis University. The doctoral fellows program provides intellectual and professional support to a small group of current doctoral students in North America and Israel-based universities whose research is, in one form or another, related to Jewish education.
Deadline: 15 August 2022.
On Friday 22 July, a plaque was unveiled in the city of Worcester to commemorate the medieval Jewish community which had existed there until it’s expulsion in 1275. Professor Miri Rubin, President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, attended and produced a summary of the event.
Published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Dr MacLellan’s article examines the interactions of medieval Jews with the Tower of London as prisoners, sanctuary-seekers, and employees.
On 8 November 2022, Micha Perry will talk at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, about “Eldad Ha-Dani and the Return of the Ten Lost Tribes” in their Messiah and Messianism” lecture series.
Read now the new fragment of the month by Marc Michaels about “A Trope Trainer in from the Cairo Genizah” via Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit.
The Western Jewish Studies Association had a call for papers and panel proposals “on all areas of Jewish Studies regardless of discipline, geographical focus, or time period.”
Deadline: 5 November 2022.
This conference has a session on Jewish medieval thought on Thursday, 4 August:
Chair: Dr. Miryam Feldman-Kaye
Yanir Shashar, “The Concept of God in the Thought of Modern-Day Orthodox Thinkers Divided into the External Paradigm and the Reflective Paradigm”
Yossi Breuer, “’Faith in the Thought of Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Feivelson: A Human Need for a Sense of Security or a Desire for Self-Discovery and Human Greatness”
Shahar Zadok, “Meta-Halachic and Educational Considerations in Rabbi Yuval Cherlow’s Halachic Ruling”
Yale University has opened up a position for an assistant professor that is suitable for researchers of medieval Jewish Studies.
Deadline: 1 October 2022.
Nick Posegay’s Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew (Open Book Publishers, 2021) won the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Book Prize.
PhD Candidate
University of London, Courtauld Institute of Art
Advisors: Dr Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Continue reading Researcher of the Week“My research interests center around Jewish-Christian relations and Jewish experience in Western Europe between 1290 and 1550. I am particularly fascinated by the migration of Hebrew manuscripts and manuscript production practices in this period.
