Courses

International Summer School. Biblical Hebrew Poetry: The Song of Songs and its Reception in Judaism. Leuven, Belgium. 7-11 September 2020. Deadline for registration: 31 May 2020.

January 19, 2020 by EAJS Administrator

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY: THE SONG OF SONGS AND ITS RECEPTION IN JUDAISM

The faculties of Theology and Arts KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

7-11 September 2020

This Summer School will provide a thorough investigation of the Song of Song’s poetry and its reception in Judaism, from the Rabbinic period to the Middle Ages. International experts in the field will offer lectures and workshops on the following contents: The Song’s poetry against the background of Biblical Hebrew Poetry. Sound play, parallelism, metaphor, and metonymy. Poetic construction of gender. The Song’s erotic and mystical language. Poetic pace and structure, coherence and cohesion. Poetic construction of space. Triggering emotions through poetry. Rabbinic interpretation: Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah. The Song in the early synagogue and in piyyut. Targum to the Song of Songs. Medieval Jewish exegesis: From Rashi to Maimonides. The Song in medieval Hebrew poetry between East and West.

Information and registration: https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/research_units/ru_bible/biblical-hebrew-poetry

Deadline for registration : 31 May 2020

Contacts : danilo.verde@kuleuven.be; joachim.yeshaya@kuleuven.be

Call for Applications. The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program. Tel Aviv University. 28 June – 23 July 2020. Deadline: 1 May 2020.

January 19, 2020 by EAJS Administrator

The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program

at Tel Aviv University

June 28 – July 23, 2020

The 15^th international Yiddish summer program at Tel Aviv University will take place from June 28 to July 23, 2020. The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program offers Yiddish language instruction at four levels: Beginners, Intermediate I, Intermediate II, and an advanced seminar. Language learning is supplemented by a rich program of afternoon and evening lectures on Yiddish literature and culture, a research symposium for graduate students, intensive conversation classes, concerts, cultural activities, and tours, both on campus and in the vibrant city of Tel Aviv.

As students of TAU-International, the Tel Aviv University Overseas School, whose credentials are recognized by universities worldwide, participants receive 80 hours of instruction (four credits) from an international faculty of leading experts in Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

Scholarship assistance is available for full time students.

Academic Program Directors:
Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Avraham Novershtern, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Beit Shalom Aleichem

Summer Director:

Prof. Justin Cammy, Smith College

Summer Program Video Clip

Online Registration: www.international.tau.ac.il

Closing Date for Applications: May 1, 2020.

For additional information, please contact:

The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program
Tel: +972-3-6407805
Fax: +972-3-6407732
naomiyiddish@tauex.tau.ac.il
www.naomiyiddish.tau.ac.il

Call for Applications. Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation (2020). Deadline: 20 March 2020

January 13, 2020 by EAJS Administrator

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
SUMMER INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH CIVILISATION

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, USA, and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, with the support of Pears Foundation, are pleased to invite applications for Fellowships to participate in the fifth European Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation.

The Institute will take place from Monday 29 June – Wednesday 8 July 2020 at the Royal Holloway campus, Egham, Surrey, in England.

This programme is an intensive 10-day residential course designed to broaden and deepen the background of postgraduates in Holocaust studies, early career academics and educators in relevant fields. It is open to full- or part-time PhD students (particularly those in their final year of study), full- or part-time academic staff, and educators at recognised institutions such as museums and archives.

Nineteen Fellows will be selected, each of whom will receive free room, board and tuition during the programme (Fellowships do not, however, cover travel expenses to and from the applicant’s home or institutional address to the UK and/or Egham). We seek Fellows from a wide variety of disciplines and all intellectual fields related to Holocaust Studies.

The Institute curriculum consists of courses, lectures and seminars taught by leading scholars on themes such as Holocaust history and historiography; the Holocaust in literature and film; and the Holocaust and modern thought. Faculty staff will include Professor Robert Eaglestone, Dr Becky Jinks, Professor Barry Langford, Dr Paris Papamichos Chronakis and Professor Dan Stone.

In addition, the Institute offers a rich programme of guest lectures on special topics and field trips to museums, archives, and cultural sites in London.

Applications should include a statement of 500 words, explaining the prospective Fellow’s interest and experience in Holocaust studies and intentions for teaching the Holocaust; a curriculum vitae (maximum five pages); plus, a letter of recommendation from a doctoral supervisor or line manager. Applications should be submitted, using email, by Friday 20 March 2020 to Imogen Dalziel, Programme Manager: imogen.dalziel.2013@live.rhul.ac.uk. Postal address if necessary: The Holocaust Research Institute, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.

Fellowships will be awarded and all applicants notified by Friday 3 April 2020.

Woolf Institute. Summer School 2020: Religion and Society from the Medieval to the Modern. Deadline 3 May 2020.

October 14, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

APPLICATIONS are now being accepted for the

Woolf Institute Summer School 2020:

Religion and Society from the Medieval to the Modern

The Summer School examines the interactions between religion and society and between the different religious communities in Europe and the Middle East from the medieval era to modern times. This module introduces students to the study of religion in society and to different aspects of the history of interfaith relations in Europe and in the Middle East. It aims to equip students with the required analytical tools, bibliographical background and the necessary objectivity for the study of interfaith relations.

This programme of study offers participants the opportunity to draw on the research and teaching expertise of academics and doctoral scholars at the Woolf Institute, as well as academics within Cambridge. The curriculum will include an interdisciplinary approach to the study of interreligious and interfaith relations.

Join us for an accredited MA module or receive a Woolf Institute Certificate of Completion. Participants sit alongside Master’s students from the Cambridge Theological Federation studying for a Master’s degree accredited by Anglia Ruskin University.

10% EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Apply now and pay by 31 January 2020

The final deadline for applications is 3 May 2020.

For further information and how to apply, visit the Summer School webpage:

https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/study/summer-schools