During the 2015-16 to 2017-18 academic years, the EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies ran in parallel with another grant programme, the EAJS Programme in European Jewish Studies (the latter funded by the Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”, Berlin).
Reports for EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies
2017-18
- Rabbinic Instruction in Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Praxis in Antiquity and Late Antiquity. Göttingen, 18-19 September 2017
- Ukrainian Jews: Revolution and Post-Revolutionary Modernization. Policy, Culture, and Society. Kyiv, 15-16 October 2017
- Jews in Europe in Immediate Postwar Period. Frankfurt am Main, 3-5 December 2017
- 25th Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies. Moscow, 4-6 February 2018
- Digital Humanities & Jewish Epigraphy. Utrecht, 19-21 February 2018
- Young Scholars’ Conference “Genocides, Mass Murders and Deportations in Ukraine during WWII: How to Work with Sources. Kharkiv, 17-19 April 2018
- New Loyalties, Old Dramas: Jewish Community Life in the Aftermath of the Great War in Central and Eastern Europe. Bucharest, 10-12 May 2018
- Emotions in Rabbinic Literature: Methods and Approaches. Groningen, New Dates: 24-25 May 2018
- Greek expanded, Greek transformed: The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators. Oxford, 18-20 June 2018
- Theories and Histories: Jewish Studies in Other Disciplines. Durham, 9-11 July 2018
- Aramaic Language and Literature: Local and Global Influences on the Targums and Targumic Aramaic. London, 9-11 July 2018
- EAJS XIth Congress: “Searching for the Roots of Jewish Traditions”. Krakow, 15-19 July 2018
2016-17
- How to communicate Jewish cultural heritage: the development of Jewish cultural route in Lithuania. Vilnius, 25 – 26 October 2016
- Letters in the Dust: The Epigraphy, Archaeology, and Conservation of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries. Utrecht, 7 – 8 November 2016
- Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King: The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Warsaw, 26-28 October 2016
- Jews on the Move: Exploring the movement of Jews, objects, texts, and ideas in space and time (BAJS Conference). Edinburgh, 10 – 12 July 2017
- Jewish books and their Christian collectors in Europe, the New World and Czarist Russia. Oxford, 22-23 May 2017
- New Approaches to the History of the Jews under Communism. Prague, 23-25 May 2017
- 24th International Annual Conference on Jewish Studies and International Youth Conference on Jewish Studies in Moscow. Moscow, 30 January – 2 February 2017
- Jews and Christians between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean: Co-existence and Conflict [Budapest; New Dates: 10 – 21 July 2017]
- Interwoven Regional Worlds: Jews and Christians in Bavaria, Bohemia and Austria, 1349-1648 [Regensburg, 12 – 14 September 2016].
2015-16
- The Role of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modern Philosophy and Science: Kabbalah, “Atheism” and Non-Mechanical Philosophies of Nature in the 17th-18th Centuries. Paris, 12-13 October 2015
- Suppressed Historiography, Erased Memory? The Perception of the Shoah in East Central Europe during Socialist Rule. Halle, 30 November – 1 December 2015
- XXIII International Annual Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow. Moscow, 31 January – 2 February 2016
- Jewish Museologies and the Politics of Display. Leeds, 13-14 March 2016
- Nationhood and Religion in Hellenistic-Roman Judaea. Groningen, 21-23 June 2016
- Talmud and Christianity: Rabbinic Judaism after Constantine. Cambridge, 26-28 June 2016
- ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library. Manchester, 27-29 June 2016
- Jewish Languages. London, 26-27 July 2016
- The Western Balkan Encounter of Sepharad and Ashkenaz: Between Tradition and Change. Belgrade, 5-7 July 2016
EAJS Programme in European Jewish Studies
(funded by the Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”, Berlin)
2017-18
1. EAJS Summer Laboratory for Young Genizah Researchers and those interested in the field
Conveners: Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE Paris), Dr Ben Outhwaite (Genizah Research Unit Cambridge), Professor Ronny Vollandt (LMU Munich)
Organiser: Dr Friederike Schmidt (LMU Munich)
Report: Young Genizah Researchers and those interested in the field report
2. E Pluribus Unum? Multidisciplinarity in Jewish Studies Programmes and Teaching
Organisers: Dr Javier Castaño and Dr François Guesnet
Report: Girona workshop report
3. EAJS Roundtable on an International Program of MA Jewish Studies: Teaching Methods and Implementation Perspectives
Organisers: Dr Jurgita Verbickiene and Professor Marcin Wodzinski
Report: Link for EAJS Roundtable on an International Program of MA Jewish Studies
2016-17
1. Turning the Page: Jewish Print Cultures and Digital Humanities
Organisers: Professor Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam), Dr Andrea Schatz (King’s College, London) and Professor Emile Schrijver (Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam)
Report: Link for Jewish Print Cultures and Digital humanities Report.
2. Yiddish Language and Culture. A Relay Station of Modernity and Lieu de Mémoire of Postmodernity
Organisers: Dr Olaf Terpitz, Mag. Marianne Windsperger and Professor Gerhard Langer, University of Vienna
Report: Link for Yiddish Language and Culture Report.
2015-16
1. YIVO’s Histories, Contexts, Tensions: An academic roundtable to accompany the annual ‘Litvak Days’ (with the Lithuanian embassy, London) and YIVO (New York).
Organisers: Professor Michael Berkowitz and Dr Helen Beer, University College London.
Report: Link for YIVO Report
2. Research Approaches in Hebrew Bible Manuscript Studies. A Critical Overview Based on Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cairo Genizah and European Genizah.
Organisers: Dr Elodie Attia-Kay, Centre Paul-Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence; Samuel Blapp, University of Cambridge; and Mr Anthony Perrot, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE).