Nazim Sattar writes about “The Maldives and “the beginning of the season”: can we guess the sailing month mentioned in Madmūn b. Ḥasan’s letter?” in the Fragment of the Month via the blog of the T-S Genizah Research Unit.
Monthly Archives: November 2024
The Richard Witten Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University
According to their call, “Columbia University’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies is proud to announce a post-doctoral fellowship at the rank of Post-Doctoral Research Scholar in Jewish Studies for the 2025-2026 academic year. The salary for the fellowship will be $91,050. This fellowship is open to scholars in all areas of Israel and Jewish Studies.”
Deadline: 20 December 2024.
New Book — Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England, by Asa Simon Mittman
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Available as an e-book.
From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to displace.
Book Feature: Ivan G. Marcus, How the West Became Antisemitic
Read the book future about Ivan G. Marcus’ How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500 (Princeton University Press, 2024) via medievalist.
New book — An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kingdom of Castile (1449-1559), by Stefania Pastor (open access)
Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish History, Queen’s University
According to their call, “the Jewish Studies Program in association with the Department of History at Queen’s University invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. The temporal and thematic area of specialization is open and includes any area of research related to Jewish history. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar with a completed PhD who has a record of outstanding teaching. The fellowship will be awarded initially for a two-year term commencing 1 July 2024 and is renewable for an additional one-year term. A postdoctoral supervisor will be named based on the successful candidate’s field of specialization.”
Deadline: 15 January 2025.
The Aaron Kirschenbaum International Prize in Jewish Law
According to their call, “the first prize will be awarded in Israel (2025), the second in New York (2027), and will continue to be awarded alternately every two years. The prize will be awarded to an early career scholar (graduate student or up to ten years from the last terminal degree) for an article written in Hebrew or English in the field of Jewish Law, broadly defined, accepted for publication during the previous three years.”
Deadline: 15 December 2024.
Kabbalah in Context: Portraits of Localized Knowledge, Research Workshop, 28–29 January 2025, Jerusalem
The The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East and the Matanel Chair of Kabbalah Studies organize this research workshop at Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem.
Deadline: 15 December 2024.
Conference: Digital in die jüdische Frühe Neuzeit. Innovative Formen der Vermittlung
14. Februar 18:00 Uhr bis 16. Februar 2025 13:00 Uhr, Stuttgart-Hohenheim
The so-called third mission – alongside scientific research and university teaching – refers to the socially relevant activities of academic institutions, through which they are more clearly recognised by the public. Digital forms of knowledge transfer are becoming increasingly important in this context. Following on from this observation, the anniversary conference of the Interdisciplinary Forum on Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern Period 2025 will be dedicated to the topic of digital communication of Jewish history (in the early modern period).
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish History, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
The Jewish Studies Program in association with the Department of History at Queen’s University invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. The temporal and thematic area of specialization is open and includes any area of research related to Jewish history. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar with a completed PhD who has a record of outstanding teaching. The fellowship will be awarded initially for a two-year term commencing 1 July 2024 and is renewable for an additional one-year term. A postdoctoral supervisor will be named based on the successful candidate’s field of specialization.