Calls

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
University of Haifa

Call for Applications for the 
Sonja and Manfred Lahnstein Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Haifa
in 20th-Century German Studies for the 2025–2026 Academic Year

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society invites applications for the Manfred Lahnstein one-year post-doctoral fellowship (for a minimum of 10 months). The successful applicant will receive a fellowship in the amount of 90,000 NIS and office facilities for conducting research at the University of Haifa.

The Lahnstein Fellowship supports innovative research on 20th-century German history, culture, and society, including the latter’s evolving national boundaries, diasporas, and exiles. We are especially interested in original research that involves the Middle East. The fellowship is designed to cover a one-year research stay in Haifa.

The Lahnstein Fellows are required to:

1.    Register as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa (Faculty of Humanities)
2.    Reside in Haifa and use the Bucerius Institute as their main work site during the fellowship
3.    Participate in events organized by the Bucerius Institute during the fellowship year
4.    Deliver the annual Lahnstein Lecture at the Board of Governors Meeting (held in May/June) – The Lahnstein Lecture Series is a high-profile event at the University of Haifa
5.    Acknowledge the support of the ZEIT-Stiftung and the Bucerius Institute in any publication(s) related to the research conducted in the course of the Lahnstein Fellowship

Interested applicants must have been awarded their Ph.D. no earlier than October 2020, or have submitted their dissertation no later than November 1, 2024 (pending the awarding of their degree by October 2025).

Applicants should submit:

•  A one-page letter of application briefly describing their research experience, proposed project and interest in the Bucerius Institute
•  A research proposal (up to five pages)
•  A curriculum vitae
•  Two letters of recommendation (one of which must be from their Ph.D. adviser)
•  A letter of acceptance by a hosting scholar from the University of Haifa
•  An official doctoral diploma (or official confirmation of the submission of their dissertation)

All requested documents should be written in English.

Applications should be sent to Amir Bar-On (Administrative Coordinator) at ambaron@univ.haifa.ac.co.il

The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2024. Decisions will be announced by early March 2025.

The Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa is a vibrant research hub that attracts promising junior and senior scholars not only from Israel and Germany, but also from across Europe and North America. The institute was founded 20 years ago by a joint initiative of the German ZEIT-Stiftung and the University of Haifa. Since then, it has been promoting research on the contemporary history and social, cultural, and political reality of Germany, embracing a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodologies, and engaging with the complexity of contemporary German history in a global age.

Please visit our homepage for more information: https://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/

For the PDF version of the Call: click here.

Aus Mitteln der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung werden zum frühesten Beginn im Juni 2025 bis zu fünf Promotionsstipendien für die erste Förderphase des interdisziplinären Promotionskollegs „Gebrochene Traditionen? Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Musik im NS-Deutschland“ (PK 057) ausgeschrieben.

Ziel des Promotionskollegs ist es, aus philosophischer, literatur-, musik- und religionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive die Kenntnisse zum jüdischen kulturellen Leben in einem seit 1933 zunehmend separierten jüdischen Kulturkreis innerhalb NS-Deutschlands zu erweitern. Das Kolleg reiht sich damit ein in die internationalen Bemühungen der NS- und Holocaust-Forschung.

Das Kolleg wird seinen Sitz in Berlin am Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg haben und gemeinsam von den folgenden Forschungsinstitutionen getragen:

-       Axel Springer-Lehrstuhl für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder,
-       Buber-Rosenzweig-Institut für Jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und der Gegenwart an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main,
-       Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte der jüdischen Musik an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.

Informationen zur Ausschreibung finden Sie in der angehängten Datei sowie auf der Seite des Promotionskollegs: www.gebrochene-traditionen.de/.

CfA hier verfügbar.

2025-2026 Fellowship Call for Applications from the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania)

Contemporary Jewish life constitutes an ever-expanding cultural landscape, teeming with multiple possibilities for doing and being Jewish. Individuals, groups, and institutions are imagining and pushing forward new Jewish formations to create and inhabit previously uncharted territories. It is to these new frontiers of Jewish life that the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies devotes its fellowship program in 2025–26.

What does it mean to live, worship, and affiliate Jewishly in this diversified landscape? How is Jewishness expressed and contested across media and geographies of the contemporary moment? What can we learn about the present and future of Jewishness by looking at forms of community and creativity in marginal, interstitial, and expected spaces, including those in the frontier zones between the religious and the secular, the center and the periphery, the Jewish and the non-Jewish, or that exist in the virtual realms of the imagined and the digital? The Katz Center invites applications from scholars pursuing research projects animated by these and related questions.

The Center supports individual research projects while encouraging conversation and collaboration through seminars, conferences, and other forms of intellectual exchange. The fellowship is open to scholars from across the globe and at all career levels from newly minted Ph.D.s to senior scholars. The Katz Center welcomes proposals coming from any disciplinary perspective, including anthropology, sociology, history, education studies, ethics, religious studies, political science, digital humanities, and the study of Jewish literature, art, or film. The fellowship is also open to applications focused on the study of experiences and new realities in Israel and for Jews globally in light of October 7 and its aftermath.

Selected fellows are provided with a stipend and the time and resources needed to pursue their individual projects (including an office, computer, and library privileges at the University of Pennsylvania), and are expected to actively engage in the intellectual life of the fellowship community. All applicants must have a doctoral degree in hand by the start of the fellowship. Fellows are expected to live in Philadelphia for the term of their fellowship which can run for the entire academic year (September–April) or for a single semester.

More information is included in the Katz Center application.
Find answers to frequently asked questions here. For other inquiries please contact Marci Seder at sederm@upenn.edu.

The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania announces a new postdoctoral fellowship that will combine teaching, public scholarship, and research in the field of contemporary antisemitism studies.

Click here to learn more about this new fellowship opportunity.

The Department of Jewish History and Bible of the University of Haifa is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Wolfson Chair Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Thought for the 2024-25 academic year. The Wolfson Fellowship is designated for outstanding students registering in the departmental doctoral program and is granted for a period of four years. The annual fellowship award is in the amount of 78,000 ILS. 

Preference will be given to students whose proposed research in the history of Jewish Thought is well-suited to the areas of expertise of the department faculty. Note that the department hosts world-renowned Digital Humanities projects that present ideal opportunities for Ph.D. research projects. 

To download the Call for Applications, click here.

Special Issue Editor: Prof. Dr. Sergey Dolgopolski
Departments of Jewish Thought and Comparative Liteature, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.
Interests: interactions between Talmud and philosophy; literary theory; theory of rhetoric; interactions between Talmud, rhetoric and literature.

Click here to read the Call for Papers.