The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2023–2024 academic year on the theme of THE SOUND AND MUSIC OF JEWISH LIFE.
Deadline: 24 October 2022.
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2023–2024 academic year on the theme of THE SOUND AND MUSIC OF JEWISH LIFE.
Deadline: 24 October 2022.
The School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton NJ) is offering two postdocs in History of Science and Medieval Studies.
Deadline: 15 October 2022.
This conference is organized by the research team of the ERC-funded research project Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah (APCG), at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. It takes place on 15 & 16 June 2023.
You can hand in papers until 31 September 2022.
The International Medieval Congress is back at the campus at Leeds, and with it many sessions and papers on Jewish Studies.
After a cancellation in 2020 and an online version in 2021, the IMC Leeds is (partially) back to being in-person and will start tomorrow, July 4 2022. As always, there are a multitude of papers on a great variety of topics within the Jewish Studies.
Continue reading Jewish Studies sessions at the IMC LeedsPhD Candidate
Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies
Advisors: Marina Rustow and Eve Krakowski
Continue reading Researcher of the Week“Rachel has been fascinated by the documents of the Cairo Geniza since she learned about them as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. In particular, she is excited about what they can tell us about the lives of women in the premodern world. Her dissertation examines Geniza documents to understand the role of women in the medieval economy. By combing through wills, court cases, dowry lists, and letters, Rachel hopes to illuminate how women’s labor and property ownership impacted the women, their families, and the community at large.
This new book by Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture, is published in The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series via Liverpool University Press.