Monthly Archives: December 2025

AAJR Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Jewish Studies, 5–7 July 2026, University of Toronto

According to their call, the “purpose of this workshop is to provide late-stage Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (see eligibility criteria below) with knowledge and skills applicable to a broad range of academic and professional career paths. Drawing on the experiences of senior professors in the fields of Jewish History, Literature, Religion, and Thought, the workshop will bring together early-career scholars representing diverse disciplines and areas of specialization within Jewish Studies.”

Deadline: 12 January 2026.

Jewish Literature under Muslim Rule: Textual Transformations and Inter-Religious Encounters, 14–16 April 2026, Munich

According to their call, this “workshop is a cooperation between the Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, and the Unit of Judaic Studies/ Munich Research Centre of Jewish Arabic Cultures at the University of Munich […] We invite proposals for a workshop exploring the impact of Muslim rule on Jewish literature, with a particular focus on religious texts—including translations of the Bible, commentaries, and philosophical and legal writings. While Jewish literary production under Islamic rule has attracted significant scholarly attention, this workshop seeks to sharpen the lens by examining how the realities of Muslim political authority and Islamic intellectual traditions influenced or shaped Jewish religious writing.”

Deadline: 20 January 2026.

Visiting Fellowships at OCHJS, Oxford

According to their call, “The OCHJS is delighted to announce calls for applications for 4 different forms of Visiting Fellowships as part of its Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies programme: OSRJL Visiting Fellowships in Rare Jewish Languages, René and Susanne Braginsky Visiting Fellowships in Manuscript Studies, Salo and Jeannette Baron Visiting Fellowships in Jewish History and Yishai Shahar Visiting Fellowships in Jewish Art History.”

Deadline: 16 January 2026.

Moritz Steinschneider Prize

According to their call, the Moritz Steinschneider Prize is “specifically aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the development and analysis of Jewish primary sources in their research. Eligible for the Prize are unpublished research works (MA theses, doctoral theses, and Habilitations) which engage with primary source in one of the following ways: the identification of previously unknown texts (in Hebrew, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, and other Jewish languages), their description and bibliographic cataloging, or the production of editions and translations, if these make previously inaccessible primary sources available to a broader audience.”

Deadline: 15 January 2026.

Four articles relevant to medieval Jewish studies published in Speculum

The centennial issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (“Speculations,” January 2026) includes four short articles relevant to the study of medieval Jews: “Entanglement, Identity, and Difference: Medieval Jews in Christian Europe,” by Elisheva Baumgarten; “The Two Faces of Medieval Jewish Studies,” by Rachel Katz and Lucy Pick; “Medieval England’s Jewish Diaspora and Critical Archival Studies,” by Adrienne Williams Boyarin; and “Goitein, the Indian Ocean, and a Missed Opportunity to Make Medieval History Global,” by Marina Rustow.


Guest Professor in Jewish Cultural History @ University of Augsburg

You can onw apply Guest Professor in Jewish Cultural History at the University of Augsburg. According to their call, “The Faculty of Philology and History at the University of Augsburg is seeking to make two following appointment bythe 1st of April 2027 and by the 1st of April 2028 […] “Jewish Cultural History” is understood broadly and includes all historical periods as well as Jewish literature and culture from antiquity to the present. A focus within the field of film studies is desirable.”

Deadline: 31 January 2026.

Jewish Literature under Muslim Rule: Textual Transformations and Inter-Religious Encounters, 14 April 2026 @ Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow, Leipzig

According to their call, the organizers “invite proposals for a workshop exploring the impact of Muslim rule on Jewish literature, with a particular focus on religious texts—including translations of the Bible, commentaries, and philosophical and legal writings. While Jewish literary production under Islamic rule has attracted significant scholarly attention, this workshop seeks to sharpen the lens by examining how the realities of Muslim political authority and Islamic intellectual traditions influenced or shaped Jewish religious writing.”

Deadline: 20 January 2026.

New book — Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jessalyn L. Bird and Rita George-Tvrtković

Brill, December 2025

This volume will introduce advanced students and non-specialists to various historical interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims within the frame of the “sea at the centre”. Its chronological range is the long central Middle Ages (1000 to 1600 CE), and includes most Mediterranean regions: Iberia, North Africa, the Levant, Asia Minor, the Balkans, Italy, Provence, and the sea itself.