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Call for Papers. “The Feuilleton, the Public Sphere and Modern Jewish Culture”. Jerusalem, Israel. 18-19 November 2019

August 22, 2019 by EAJS Administrator Leave a Comment

Call for Papers: The Feuilleton, the Public Sphere and Modern Jewish Culture

November 18-19, 2019

Jerusalem, Israel

The Feuilleton Project, an initiative organized by faculty at Michigan State University, the Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, invite papers from scholars based in Europe and Israel for a conference on the Feuilleton, the Public Sphere and Modern Jewish Cultures. The conference will be held on November 18-19, 2019 at the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem (more details about time and location to follow).

In the nineteenth century, the feuilleton became a major cultural, literary and political genre in newspapers across Europe and beyond. Feuilletons appeared in French, German, Russian, Polish, as well as Jewish languages like Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and Judeo-Arabic. By the early twentieth century, the feuilleton was a key site for discussions of national character, portraits of urban life, and aesthetic innovations. It was also increasingly perceived as a Jewish form by Jewish, non-Jewish, and anti-Semitic writers.

This conference will explore the feuilleton as a meeting place for journalism, politics and literature; a locus of urban culture; a site of negotiation for transnational identities; and a rich topic for the digital humanities. We welcome papers from history, literary studies, cultural studies, journalism and other related fields and encourage a wide range of geographic locations, theoretical, disciplinary and linguistic approaches.

All presentations should focus on a specific text or set of texts that are related to the feuilleton. The conference will include sessions with 20 minute papers, and workshop sessions with 10-minute presentations about specific texts followed by extensive discussion. Texts will be presented in the original language, with selections translated into English. Organizers will cover the costs of travel and lodging.

Please submit an abstract of 250 words, including details about the feuilleton text(s), to Naomi Brenner (brenner.108@osu.edu) by 20 September 2019.

Call For Papers. Sessions and Roundtables: Jewish Borders in the Middle Ages (IMC 2019, University of Leeds, 6-9 July 2020).

August 19, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

Call For Papers, Sessions and Roundtables

Jewish Borders in the Middle Ages

IMC 2019, University of Leeds, 6-9 July 2020

The 2019 International Medieval Congress at Leeds, focusing on medieval materialities, featured two keynote presentations, and thirteen panel sessions devoted to topics in Jewish studies plus at least seven additional panels with individual papers on Jewish topics, making the IMC an ideal venue for scholars working on any topic relating to medieval Jewish history, literature, art, or archaeology throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa, to come, present their work and exchange ideas.

Next year’s Medieval Congress at Leeds (July 6-9, 2020) will feature “Borders,” broadly conceived, as its special strand. See the general CFP at: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2020/ for further information and instructions how to submit papers or panels. Not all proposals must address this topic in order to be considered, however, it seems an especially rich one for scholars working on Jewish topics.

Explorations of various types of medieval borders have often begun with or centered on Jews in some way: Jewish relations with non-Jews as examples of negotiating the borders between religious communities and representing religious difference in the written and visual cultures of the Middle Ages; the role of Jews in securing or establishing political borders, for example in medieval Iberia or Khazaria; Jews as intermediaries between multiple cultures of learning; Jews as traders, travelling across the borders of land and sea, and in the process, political, cultural, linguistic and economic borders as well; Jews as part of the symbolic imaginary of Christians or Muslims in their representations of not only actual Jews, but of everything from animals, other forms of social, religious, or gendered difference, or eschatology

Jews, of course had their own borders. Even as Christians represented Jews literally or symbolically on the borders of their illuminated manuscripts, choir stools or churches, so too did Jews express their views of Christians in their own manuscript images, and of internal boundaries of gender, age, and social status within the Jewish community. In addition to having to negotiate the boundaries between themselves and other religious communities, they also had to contend with difference within the Jewish community; the most obvious being between Rabbanite and Karaite, but other internal differences based on variations in customs, legal interpretations and liturgy across geographical borders, or between different social strata within the Jewish community. Geographic boundaries, borders between the divine and earthly realms, between human and animal likewise feature in Jew literature. Much has been made of the imaginary or hermeneutical Jew in Christian writings and to a lesser extent Muslim ones, yet one may also ask what if any imaginaries did medieval Jews themselves use as tools with which to interpret the world around them?

Scholars are invited to contemplate and contribute proposals to any of these subjects or others relating to borders and medieval Jewish cultures, or to other aspects of medieval Jewish life, history, or cultural production.

Deadline for individual papers: August 31, 2019 https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/proposal-forms/paper-proposal-form-2020/

Deadline for panels: September 30, 2019

https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/proposal-forms/session-proposal-form-2020/

Deadline for roundtables: September 30, 2019

https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/proposals/proposal-forms/round-table-proposal-form-2020/

Questions regarding the Jewish studies strand at the IMC, contact: Alexandra Cuffel alexandra.cuffel@rub.de

Positions available in the study of Rabbinic Judaism. The University of Chicago Divinity School. Applications welcomed at the assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor rank

August 8, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

The University of Chicago Divinity School seeks scholar(s) for one or more positions in the study of Rabbinic Judaism for an appointment date of July 1, 2020. Rank and salary are open. We welcome applications at the assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor rank.

Applicants should possess broad knowledge of the Rabbinic period and literature as well as expertise in the languages essential to the field and relevant to the candidate’s research agenda. Strong applicants will demonstrate knowledge of the Roman, Sasanian, and early Islamic imperial contexts in which Rabbinic literature developed. Candidates are expected to have the interest and ability to engage in interdisciplinary conversations with other scholars of religion and in other fields and areas within the University.

The Divinity School is the graduate professional school for the academic study of religion at the University of Chicago, a private research university. Faculty in the School teach Ph.D. students; Master’s level students in M.A., M.Div., and A.M.R.S. programs; and undergraduates in the College. Many faculty members hold associate appointments in humanities or social science departments and professional schools of the University. A normal teaching load is four courses per year on a quarter system.

Candidates must hold the Ph.D. in Rabbinic Judaism or a related field or discipline by the time of appointment.

Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2019 and will continue until the position(s) is/are filled or the search is closed. Applicants should submit 1) a letter of interest, 2) CV, 3) a teaching statement, 4) syllabi, 5) a statement articulating future research agenda, and 6) a writing sample of 25-40 pages. If applying at the assistant professor rank, applicants must also solicit three letters of recommendation through the system. Applications should be made online, at http://apply.interfolio.com/66300

If you have any questions, contact Sara Bigger at sfbigger@uchicago.edu

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Disabled/Veterans Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, status as an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law.

For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination at http://www.uchicago.edu/about/non_discrimination_statement/

Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call 773-702-1032 or email equalopportunity@uchicago.edu with their request.

New Book. “Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious Leadership”.

August 8, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

New Book

Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious Leadership

Hannah Holtschneider

Edinburgh University Press, August 2019: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-jewish-orthodoxy-in-scotland-hb.html

A transnational, biographical perspective on Jewish religious leadership in early twentieth-century Scotland

Kosher haggis, tartan kippot, and Jewish Burns’ Night Suppers: Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book analyses the religious aspects of this transition through a transnational perspective on migration in the first three decades of the twentieth century. As immigrants began to outnumber the established Jewish community, and Eastern European rabbis challenged the British Jewish leadership in London, Scottish Jewry underwent momentous changes. The book examines this tumultuous period through a thematic biography of Salis Daiches, Scotland’s most significant rabbi. Drawing on previously unseen archival material, including Rabbi Daiches’ personal correspondence, the book provides a window into the dynamics of Jewish religious life and power relations.

New Position. Professor (W2) in German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

August 6, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

Opening for the position of a Professor (W2) in German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

The successful candidate will teach at the University of Duisburg-Essen (in the fields of Jewish Studies and/or Jewish History, reduced teaching load) and function as the head of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut für Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte in Essen with its small team of researchers.

Candidates are expected to

hold a PhD degree in Jewish Studies or Jewish History with a focus on the history of the Jewish in Germany
show a post graduate research record: near complete “Habilitation” or second book.
be fluent in German, and near fluent in Hebrew and English
have a successful record of fund raising
posses administrative and representatives skills

Im Rahmen eines gemeinsamen Berufungsverfahrens nach dem „Jülicher Modell“ ist mit dem Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte (Mitglied der Johannes-Rau-Forschungsgemeinschaft) und der Universität Duisburg-Essen in der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften zum Sommersemester 2020 auf fünf Jahre befristet folgende Stelle zu besetzen:

Universitätsprofessur für „Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte“

(Bes.-Gr. W 2 LBesO W)

Über eine eventuelle Entfristung der Professur wird zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt entschieden.

Gesucht wird eine in der Forschung ausgewiesene Persönlichkeit im Bereich Judaistik/ Jüdische Studien, die über sehr gute Sprachkenntnisse des Hebräischen und des Deutschen verfügt. Die Stelleninhaberin bzw. der Stelleninhaber übernimmt in Nachfolge des derzeitigen Direktors Prof. Dr. Michael Brocke die Leitung des Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Instituts. Die Leitung des Instituts verlangt dessen Repräsentation in Universität und Öffentlichkeit, Pflege und weiteren Ausbau von Kooperationen und Kontakten in Forschung und Wissenschaftsvermittlung sowie die Leitung des Mitarbeiterteams, das sich aus Historikern/-innen, Judaisten/-innen und IT-Fachleuten zusammensetzt.

Der Schwerpunkt der Forschungstätigkeit wird am Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut sein.

Zu den Aufgaben der Stelleninhaberin bzw. des Stelleninhabers gehört es, neben den Tätigkeiten am Steinheim-Institut auch die deutsch-jüdische Geschichte entsprechend ihrer bzw. seiner kultur- oder religionswissenschaftlichen Qualifikation in Forschung und Lehre angemessen zu vertreten. Erwartet werden Veröffentlichungen in hochrangigen, referierten Publikationsorganen sowie der ausgeschriebenen Position angemessene Erfahrungen bei der Einwerbung und Durchführung kompetitiver Drittmittelprojekte, vorzugsweise DFG-geförderter Projekte.

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen legt besonderen Wert auf die Qualität der Lehre. Didaktische Vorstellungen zur Lehre – auch unter Berücksichtigung des Profils der Universität Duisburg-Essen – sind darzulegen. In der Lehre wird von der Stelleninhaberin bzw. vom Stelleninhaber erwartet, dass sie bzw. er in den Studiengängen der Fakultät Lehrveranstaltungen im Umfang von 2 Semesterwochenstunden anbietet.

Die Einstellungsvoraussetzungen richten sich nach § 36 Hochschulgesetz NRW.

Die Universität Duisburg-Essen verfolgt das Ziel, die Vielfalt ihrer Mitglieder zu fördern (siehe www.uni-due.de/diversity/). Sie strebt die Erhöhung des Anteils der Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert deshalb einschlägig qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Bei gleicher Qualifikation werden Frauen nach Maßgabe des Landesgleichstellungsgesetzes bevorzugt berücksichtigt. Bewerbungen geeigneter Schwerbehinderter und Gleichgestellter i. S. des § 2 Abs. 3 SGB IX sind erwünscht.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf mit Angaben zum wissenschaftlichen und beruflichen Werdegang, Liste der wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen, Zeugniskopien, Darstellung des eigenen Forschungsprofils und der sich daraus ergebenden Perspektiven für das Steinheim-Institut und die Universität Duisburg-Essen, Lehr-Lernkonzept unter Berücksichtigung des Profils der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Angaben zur bisherigen Lehrtätigkeit, zur Mitwirkung in der akademischen Selbstverwaltung sowie zu den eingeworbenen Drittmitteln) sind bis zum 31.08.2019 zu richten an den

Dekan der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Herrn Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Hartmann, bewerbungen-geiwi@uni-due.de.

Weitere Informationen zum Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut, zur ausgeschriebenen Stelle, deren Einbettung in die Universität Duisburg-Essen sowie in die Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften finden Sie unter:

http://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/geisteswissenschaften_dekanat/professurausschreibung_w2_deutsch-juedische_geschichte.pdf