Monthly Archives: November 2024

2025-2026 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica

Call for Applications

According to their call, “the Starr fellowships for 2025-2026 will be available exclusively to recent Ph.D. recipients working on Jewish mysticism, including Kabbalah in all periods, Hasidism, including neo-Hasidism, and other forms of Jewish thought significantly influenced by Kabbalah. Candidates working in the Humanities (philosophy, theology, literature) and the Social Sciences (anthropology, sociology, ethnography) are encouraged to apply. Ph.D. required. Applicants must have their Ph.D. degree in hand by July 1, 2025. Recent recipients of the doctorate and junior faculty are especially encouraged to apply.”

Deadline: 12 December 2024.

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New Publication: Medieval History Journal, Volume 27, Issue 2. Special Issue: Jewish Belonging in Medieval Europe: Challenges and Possibilities

Publications

Content:
Elisheva Baumgarten: Jewish Belonging in Medieval Europe: Challenges and Possibilities

Olivier Richard: Experiences of Citizenship in Late Medieval Southern German Lands

Andreas Lehnertz: Swearing Oaths and Affixing Seals: Acts of Citizenship and Belonging Among Jews in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire

Hannah Teddy Schachter: When Rulers Came to Town: Jews, Christians and Urban Processions in Medieval France and the Holy Roman Empire

Annika Funke: Settlement Policy and Competition in Towns: The Case of Anschel of Münzenberg

Moshe Yagur: Living in the City: Jews and Their Residences in Medieval Fusṭāṭ

Epilogue:
Paola Tartakoff: Medieval Jews, Belonging and ‘Lived Citizenship’

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Small Research Grant Programme

Call for Applications

According to their call, “the European Association for Jewish Studies is delighted to announce the first round of the EAJS Small Research Grant Programme (SRGP) for 2024-25. Funded by its core funder, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, the programme offers support to Full and Student members for their individual research. A second round will follow in the spring 2025.”

Deadline: 30 November 2024.

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The Nineteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 4–8 August 2025

Call for Applications, Conferences

Scholars from all fields of Jewish Studies are invited to take part in the Congress. The six broad divisions of the World Congress are:

• The Bible and Its World
• History of the Jewish People
• Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Law and Jewish Thought
• Languages, Literatures, and the Arts
• Jewish Studies and Social Sciences
• Research Projects and Technology

Deadline: 1 December 2024.

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New Book: Maria Stürzebecher, The Jewish Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Rare Testimonies to Jewish Community Life in a Medieval City

Publications

In 2023, the UNESCO inscribed the Jewish Medieval Heritage in Erfurt on its World Heritage List. This book describes the individual components of this ensemble – the Old Synagogue, the Erfurt Treasure, the medieval mikveh, the Stone House, the gravestones from the former Jewish cemetery, and the Hebrew manuscripts from Erfurt – and tells the story of their rediscovery.

Have a look