Monthly Archives: March 2024

Association of Jewish Libraries – Academic Scholarship & Conference Subvention

Call for Applications

The Association of Jewish Libraries is pleased to offer a combined academic scholarship with conference subvention. The award includes an academic scholarship of $3000 to a student enrolled in or accepted into a graduate school of library and information science, in combination with a conference subvention award (not to exceed $2000) to cover registration, travel expenses, and hotel (double occupancy) associated with attending the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference in person in San Diego in June 2024. Conference attendance is required as a condition of accepting the scholarship.

Deadline: 11 April 2024.

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The Value of the Digital. #DHJewish Conference and Hackathon, 10–11 April 2024, Potsdam

Digital Humanities, Events

Organized by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies together with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH); generously supported by the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies. The Hackathon is co-organized by the Network Digital Humanities, Potsdam.

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Association of Jewish Studies – Student Academic Scholarship and Conference Subvention

Call for Applications

The Association of Jewish Libraries is pleased to offer a combined academic scholarship with conference subvention. The award includes an academic scholarship of $3000 to a student enrolled in or accepted into a graduate school of library and information science, in combination with a conference subvention award (not to exceed $2000) to cover registration, travel expenses, and hotel (double occupancy) associated with attending the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference in person in San Diego in June 2024. Conference attendance is required as a condition of accepting the scholarship.

Deadline: 11 April 2024.

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Corcoran Chair Conference “RANKING RELIGIONS: Taxonomic Comparison in Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Thought” (Hybrid), 7–8 April 2024, Boston College

Conferences

Within the polemical inter-religious context of the Middle Ages, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers developed systematic and sophisticated ways of comparing their own faiths with those of others, including non-monotheists. Although each thinker maintained that his own community’s system of belief and practice was superior to those of other groups, they nonetheless engaged in a kind of comparative practice that prefigured or arguably lay foundations for the modern study of Comparative Religion. One element of this comparative practice was the production of taxonomies of religions and systems of ranking them, sometimes using the discourse of “proximity” and “distance” to conceptualize their interrelation. In this conference, we will study how Muslim, Jewish, and Christian thinkers produced taxonomies and rankings of other religious communities focusing on the underlying reasons for producing the taxonomies adopted and the shifting grounds of comparison itself (doctrine, ritual, revelatory status, prophetology, etc.).

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Italy: PugliaEbraica — new online (and paper) resource for Jewish heritage in Puglia

New Projects

This new resource focuses on the Jewish heritage of Puglia (Apulia) — the region on the heel of the Italian boot, where Jews lived from ancient times until their expulsion in the 16th century.

Only a handful of Jews live in Puglia today, but the region is home two two Jewish museums — one in Trani and one in Lecce, plus synagogues in Trani  and other traces of Jewish heritage all over the region.

Pugliaebraica — a project of the Jewish museum in Lecce — includes a web site in Italian, English, and Hebrew, with an interactive map that incudes more than two dozen cities, towns, and villages where there is evidence of Jewish heritage.  There is also  a printed version with a map and informational material.

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Jewish Studies 58.2 (2023)

Publications

The new volume of Jewish Studies 58.2 (2023) (Hebrew) is out. List of articles:

  1. Brachi Elitzur and Eden HaCohen – “They Rejected the Desirable Land”: The Sin of the Spies and its Reframing in Rabbinic Literature
  2. Jonathan Grossman and Jonathan Jacobs – Ambiguity on the Level of the Plain Sense in Rashi’s Commentaries on the Bible
  3. Dov Schwartz – Between Spain and Provence: Critical and Cultural Exploration of Rabbi Prof. B. Z. Benedict’s Oeuvre
  4. Michal Aziza Ohana – A Modern Rabbinical Autobiography by R. Yeshuah Shimon Hayyim Ovadiah of Sefrou
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EAJS Virtual 2024

Digital Humanities

The European Association for Jewish Studies is introducing a new format of a full-day online conference. This new format will be dedicated to the exploration of themes which are relevant to EAJS members from across the disciplines constituting Jewish Studies, and with different regional or chronological expertise.

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