The international Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme awards fellowships to doctoral students who carry out research into the German-Jewish Studies on history and culture. We welcome projects on any period or field (including literature, philosophy, history, musicology), and any region (such as Europe, Israel, the Americas). In addition to financial support for one year, the programme provides opportunities to exchange ideas with peers from around the world. It is open to doctoral candidates of any nationality, studying at any university. All fellows remain at their home institution, but come together for two workshops in the course of the fellowship, which are jointly organised by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Leo Baeck Institute London and the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig.
Continue reading Leo Baeck FellowshipMonthly Archives: December 2023
Les juifs et la cité dans l’espace du Rhin supérieur
Here is a CfP for the new issue of Revue du Rhin supérieur 6 (2024): Les juifs et la cité dans l’espace du Rhin supérieur.
Review of “Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages”
In the new issue of Historische Zeitschrift 317.3 (2023), Christoph Cluse reviews Elisheva Baumgarten, Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press 2022 (in German).
Review of “Jewish Studies in the Digital Age”
In the new issue of Medaon, Tabea Henn reviews the book Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, ed. Gerben Zaagsma, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Miriam Rürup, Michelle Margolis and Amalia S. Levi.
Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies: New Editorial Board
Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies publishes new research that engages in rich and rigorous ways with Jewish texts, visual cultures, and historical constellations. It invites work that is grounded in philological, historical, literary, and other approaches, and that addresses wider questions in the field and in our world. The series takes particular interest in the ways Jewish experiences, texts, practices and traditions emerged through engagement with other communities, cultures and powers. The Series, which focuses on single-authored books but also publishes well-conceived edited volumes, is not limited to a particular period, method or discipline, offering opportunities to explore any aspect of Jewish life, past and present.
Continue reading Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies: New Editorial BoardCanadian Society for Jewish Studies, May 28–May 30, 2024
The Canadian Society for Jewish Studies (CSJS / SCÉJ), founded in 2004, is an academic society for the study of Jewish cultures, practices, and thought in any part of the world and any time period, from any disciplinary perspective. Participants and members from anywhere in the world are welcome. Paper proposals in all areas of Jewish Studies are invited for our annual conference. Approaches may be grounded in ethnography, history, textual study, hermeneutics, literary analysis, art history, critical theory, or any other scholarly discipline. Papers may not have been published or presented elsewhere.
Continue reading Canadian Society for Jewish Studies, May 28–May 30, 2024Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and Culture
The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kentucky invites entries for the annual Mark and Ruth Luckens Essay Competition in Jewish Thought and Culture. The Luckens Prize is awarded to the best unpublished original essay that is also suitable for oral presentation to a general audience and is written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (Ph.D from no earlier than 2021) who does not already have a tenure-track academic position. The Luckens Prize carries an award of $500, made possible by a generous gift from the late Dr. Mark Luckens. In addition to the cash award, the author of the winning essay will give a public lecture in connection with University of Kentucky Jewish Studies in Spring 2024.
Continue reading Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize in Jewish Thought and CulturePostdoc Fellowship: The Jewish Family in North Africa, University of Toronto
Area of Research: Evolution of the Jewish Family in North Africa
Description of duties: The Evolution of the Jewish Family in North Africa working group is offering a two-year, full-time, postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto that will begin on July 1, 2024. The fellowship is to be held in the History Department and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies.
Continue reading Postdoc Fellowship: The Jewish Family in North Africa, University of TorontoJewish Thought. Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought
The new issue “Hopes, Dreams and Aspirations in Jewish Thought” of Jewish Thought. Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought 5 (2023) is out and offers medieval contet as well.
Wishing you a Happy Hanukkah by the Board of MjsNow!
Full-page miniature of the Menorah, surrounded by foliate scrolls inhabited by hybrids, at the end of the Pentateuch, from a Bible with masorah and parva, Italy (Rome?), first half of the 13th century, British Library Harley MS 5710, f. 136