
Lecture: 950 Jahre Urkunde König Heinrichs IV. für die Juden und übrigen Wormser (1074-2024) by Gerold Bönnen, Heidelberg, 31 January 2024

Organized by Amélie Sagasser (German Historical Institute Paris)
Kordula Wolf (German Historical Institute Rome)
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The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University-New Brunswick invites applications for the position of Bildner Scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year.
In 2024-2025, the Bildner Scholar is a one-semester (fall or spring) appointment to a senior scholar (associate or full professor). The post-doctoral scholar’s responsibilities may include, inter alia, teaching a 3-session virtual mini-course for the public, giving a faculty seminar, meeting with students, and participating in other forums to contribute to the Department of Jewish Studies and the Bildner Center. The scholar is expected to be in residence in the university area and to be actively engaged in the intellectual life of the Bildner Center and the Jewish Studies Department. All materials (a cover letter that details the scholar’s research interests; a curriculum vitae; descriptions of two possible virtual mini-courses suitable for the public; two titles for possible faculty seminars; as well as the names and emails of two academic references, should be included with the application). Materials need to be submitted by February 5, 2024. References will be contacted in mid-February for short-listed candidates, and a decision will be finalized by mid-March 2024.
As part of the DHIP’s “Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History” lecture series, Amina Boukail from the University of Jijel, Algeria, will speak on “Written Sephardic Diaspora’s Survival from Spain to Algeria (14th-15th centuries)”, with a commentary by Javier Castaño (CSIC Madrid).
Time: 30 January, 5:00 pm
This conference aims to bring to the attention of the broader academic public the complex history, visual and literary culture of the Jews in Serbia in the context of the historical, religious and cultural circumstances of South East Europe and the Balkans, from antiquity to the present. Particular attention will focus on Sephardic Jews, their presence in Serbia, at that time as part of the Ottoman Empire, since the XVI century and their highly significant contribution and at one point in the XIX and XX centuries, practically full integration in Serbian society following the reestablishment of the independent Serbian state in the wake of the two revolutions against Ottoman rule.
Take part in this online talk by Dr. Amir Ashur (Haifa/Tel Aviv/Princeton) about „The Indian Ocean trade as reflected in the Cairo Geniza“ at the Arye Maimon Institute, Trier University, on 7 February 2024, 18:15 CEST. The talk is organised by TRANSMARE Institute.
To do so, please register with Dr. Christoph Cluse cluse@uni-trier.de or Dr. Jörg Müller muellerj@uni-trier.de for the Zoom link.
The Jewish Law Association is seeking papers on the topic of Canon, Authority, and the Creation of Halakhah. The JLA International 2024 Conference will take place at the Harvard Law School and will be co-hosted by the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law. This conference seeks to expose and to explore the myriad ways that ideas, definitions, and rhetoric of canon and authority provide the impression of inevitability in halakhic decision-making. We aim to explore both the ways in which halakhic decision-making establishes ideas of canonicity (what is “inside” what is “outside” the canon) and the ways in which the establishment of a canon, as well as its sometimes-unclarified border, shapes halakhic decision-making. We seek papers that interrogate a variety of historical periods (ancient to contemporary), geographic locations, genres and literatures from a wide range of academic perspectives. We also encourage papers that tackle these questions from a pedagogical perspective.https://jewishlawassociation.org/