Monthly Archives: September 2026

Job: Assistant Professor of Medieval History, History Department, UT-Austin

Jobs


The Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2027. We seek a scholar to teach medieval Europe, excluding Spain, with additional expertise in premodern global interconnections, especially the contacts between cultures and societies along the overland or maritime Silk Road(s) that encompass Eurasia, 500-1500 CE, including China. We also encourage applications from specialists in diasporic medieval populations, including global Jewish communities beyond the Mediterranean. The successful candidate must be willing and able to teach in the core curriculum (particularly in the “Western Civilization” core area). Duties will include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, and service to the department, college, and university.

Applications must be received no later than November 13, 2026.

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New publication: Exhibition catalogue “Jüdisches Leben im Mittelalter – Jewish Life in the Middle Ages”

Exhibitions, Publications

Ed. Viola Skiba, Christoph Cluse, Andreas Lehnertz

 Schnell & Steiner, 09/2026

1,000 years ago, a Jewish cultural sphere developed in Central Europe, which was later identified with the Hebrew word ‘Ashkenaz’. From the 10th century onwards, Jewish communities began to emerge in the Rhine region and along the Moselle. Under the protection of the ruling powers, they exerted a powerful influence far beyond their core regions from the 11th to the 14th century. They became driving forces of culture and the economy, shaped the cities and maintained an intensive exchange with Christian society. Trier played a key role as a link to the French-speaking world, as the historic Jewish quarter still bears witness to this day. This exhibition catalogue for the forthcoming exhibition “Jewish Life in the Middle Ages” at the Municipal Museum Trier combines in-depth knowledge of this era with spectacular artefacts. Moving beyond clichés, it brings the eventful everyday life to life and offers fascinating insights into the Jewish-Christian past.

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Book Prize: The David Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies.

Call for Applications

The David Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies selection committee is soliciting book-length manuscripts in Jewish Studies that utilize historical, literary, and philological methods for the study of Jewish life in the Islamic world as well as medieval Jewish Studies generally.

To be considered for the prize, submit your complete manuscripts to Katerina Sofianou (katerina.sofianou@degruytebrill.com).

 Deadline: November 1, 2026.

Rice University, Kraft Family Professor of Jewish Studies

Jobs

Acording to their call, “[t]he Center for Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and Arts at Rice University is seeking to hire the Kraft Family Professor of Jewish Studies, a full-time senior level scholar in modern Jewish Studies who will also serve as the next Center Director for a renewable term of 3–5 years. As the next Center Director, we are seeking an individual who has significant administrative and institution-building experience, is strategic, inspirational, and visionary, with a broad-minded and interdisciplinary approach to Jewish Studies. The successful candidate must qualify for an appointment in one of the departments in the School of Humanities and Arts.”

Deadline: 10 November 2026.

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Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies, University of Leeds, 28–30 June, 2027

Call for Applications, Conferences

According to their call, “[t]he annual conference of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS 2027) seeks to showcase the pluralism and dynamism of Jewish Studies, exploring the subject’s diversities and encouraging intra-disciplinary collaboration, exchange, dissent, and cross-fertilisation of ideas and research. The conference seeks to place particular emphasis first, on who or what is at the apparent centres and margins of Jewish Studies, and second, on the ideological and practical reasons for and impacts of this. We invite contributions (including panels and co-presentations) from across the fields of Jewish Studies – history, literature, religious studies, archaeology, the arts, linguistics, law, political studies, the social sciences, and more – that reflect critically on self- and on subject-specific positionality. We welcome contributors who feel on the margins of, or minoritized by, the subject/s of Jewish Studies: maybe because they work with or on academic approaches, or communities, or texts, or languages, or cultural expressions and practices on the fringes of Jewish Studies, or maybe because of their personal identity, or geographical, or institutional location.”

Deadline: 1 December 2026.

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Dr. Hermann David & Dalia Karplus Research Fellowship

Call for Applications

According to their call, “[t]he Archives of the Jewish People invites applications for a €3,500 research fellowship, including a two-week research residency at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem and access to one of the world’s leading collections of archival materials on Jewish history. The fellowship will provide research grants to scholars making use of the archive, and will focus on Hermann’s areas of interest, including the history of Vienna and its Jewish community, the Jews of the Habsburg Empire, as well as synagogues and cemeteries in Central Europe.”

Deadline: 16 November 2026.

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference

Call for Applications, Conferences

According to their call, “the annual conference of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS 2027) seeks to showcase the pluralism and dynamism of Jewish Studies, exploring the subject’s diversities and encouraging intra-disciplinary collaboration, exchange, dissent, and cross-fertilisation of ideas and research. The conference seeks to place particular emphasis first, on who or what is at the apparent centres and margins of Jewish Studies, and second, on the ideological and practical reasons for and impacts of this.”

Deadline: 1 December 2026.

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