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New Books: New from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

2 February 2023 by kerry.maciak86453900

New from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

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Jewish Politics in Spinoza’s Amsterdam by Anne O. Albert

January 2023, pp. 400, Hardback 9781789622294, Ebook 9781802070750, £45

This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former member Baruch Spinoza’s notoriety, and amid the aftermath of the Sabbatian messianic movement, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam underwent a conceptual shift that led them to treat their self-governed diaspora community as a commonwealth. Preoccupied by the question of why and how Jews should rule themselves in the absence of a biblical or messianic sovereign state or king, they forged a creative synthesis of insights from early modern Christian politics and Jewish law and traditions to assess and argue over their formidable communal government. In so doing they shaped a proud new theopolitical self-understanding of their community as analogous to a Christian state.

Through readings of rarely studied sermons, commentaries, polemics, administrative records, and architecture, Anne Albert shows that a concentrated period of public Jewish political discourse among the community’s leaders and thinkers led to the formation of a strong image of itself as a totalizing, state-like entity—an image that eventually came to define its portrayal by twentieth-century historians. Her study presents a new perspective on a Jewish population that has long fascinated readers, as well as new evidence of Jewish reactions to Spinoza and Sabbatianism, and analyses the first Jewish reckoning with modern western political concepts.

Purchase directly from the LUP website for 20% off RRP

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At Eden’s Door: The Habsburg Jewish Life of Leon Kellner (1859-1928) by David Rechter

January 2023, pp. 212, Hardback 9781789621037, Ebook 9781802079241, £29.95

Leon Kellner was part of the intellectual and cultural elite of imperial Austria. Engaged in politics, a member of his regional parliament, and an essayist of repute, he was also a Zionist leader and confidant of Theodor Herzl. He created an institution for Jews’ cultural, educational, and social advancement modelled on London’s Toynbee Hall, which spread across east-central Europe to great effect. He was also an internationally recognized Shakespeare scholar. Yet for all this, today he is little known.

How did someone born into a lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish family from the province of Galicia come to gain such prominence in the Habsburg empire? Kellner’s is a thoroughly Habsburg Jewish story, spanning east and west and shaped by the empire’s history, politics, and culture. He was a singular character: a Galician Jew at home in Vienna and in Czernowitz, eyes towards Zion, yet content also in London, and never more so than when absorbed in the minutiae of Shakespeare’s texts. Kellner’s world was destroyed twice over: Habsburg Austria came to an end in 1918, east-central European Jewry in 1945. This biography recovers at least part of what was lost.

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Research Associate for the Project “Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG. Deadline for applicants: 15th February 2023

27 January 2023 by kerry.maciak86453900

Research Associate for the Project “Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG

Deadline for applicants: 15th February 2023

Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS)

Salary level: EGR. 14 TV-L

Start date: 01.03.2023 pending approval of external funding, fixed until 30.09.2024 (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act [Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG]).

Application deadline: 15.02.2023

Scope of work: full-time position suitable for part-time

Responsibilities

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

Specific Duties

The successful candidate will focus their research on Jewish thought, philosophy, and/or religion with a special emphasis on scepticism. In addition to research, the successful candidate will be part of MCAS’s publication team. The position requires participation in MCAS’s events and an active engagement in MCAS’s activities.

Requirements

A university degree in a relevant field plus doctorate.

A degree in Jewish philosophy or Jewish/Judaic studies is preferred. Your research should be directly connected to a field relevant to MCAS’s research focus.

The ideal candidate should have:

  • native or near native profiency in English
  • knowledge of additional languages relevant for the project, such as Hebrew, Arabic, French, Latin, Greek, etc.
  • proven experience in publishing and editing academic publications (e.g. monographs, editions, proceedings, translations)

We offer

  • Reliable remuneration based on wage agreements
  • Continuing education opportunities
  • University pensions
  • Attractive location
  • Flexible working hours
  • Work-life balance opportunities
  • Public transport pass (ProfiTicket) and much more
  • Health management
  • Educational leave
  • 30 days of vacation per annum

As a University of Excellence, Universität Hamburg is one of the strongest research universities in Germany. As a flagship university in the greater Hamburg region, it nurtures innovative, cooperative contacts to partners within and outside academia. It also provides and promotes sustainable education, knowledge, and knowledge exchange locally, nationally, and internationally.

Severely disabled and disabled applicants with the same status will receive preference over equally qualified non-disabled applicants.

Instructions for applying

Contact

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Veltri

giuseppe.veltri@uni-hamburg.de

+49 40 42838-9792

Maria Wazinski

maria.wazinski@uni-hamburg.de

+49 40 42838-8605

Reference number

2

Location

Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg
Zu Google Maps

Application deadline

15.02.2023

Send us your complete application documents (cover letter, a tabular curriculum vitae, copies of degree certificate[s], a research proposal [3-5 pages] and if necessary ID attesting to your disability or proof of equivalent status) via the online application form only.
Please also arrange for two letters of reference to be emailed directly to 
bewerbungen@uni-hamburg.de.

If you experience technical problems, send an email to bewerbungen@uni-hamburg.de.

More information on data protection in selection procedures.

Apply: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/formular.html?jobID=cf3e4a9e1035524607703feb97c4b9a1d82a3406

 

Call for Applications: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=cf3e4a9e1035524607703feb97c4b9a1d82a3406

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Religion and Spirituality in Everyday Life, deadline for submissions: 15th May 2023

25 January 2023 by kerry.maciak86453900

CALL FOR PAPERS

Religion and Spirituality in Everyday Life

“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyter.com/opth) invites submissions for the topical issue “Religion and Spirituality in Everyday Life,” edited by Joana Bahia (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Cecilia Bastos (National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil María Pilar García Bossio, UCA-CONICET, Argentina)

DESCRIPTION 

This Special Issue seeks to put in dialogue research focusing on religious and spiritual practices that take place outside institutional frameworks and in people’s everyday lives. We are interested in the presence of new spiritualities in daily life, whether understood as re-readings or even breaks from religious traditions. Typically, the category of spirituality refers to reinterpretations of spiritual disciplines from external historical-spatial contexts. However, here we understand them also as appropriations of institutionalised religions that are practiced outside their typical frameworks and, also, possible analogue configurations, but which are understood, implicitly or explicitly, as not religious.

We invite researchers to submit papers that contribute to the reflection about the places and contexts where religious and spiritual experiences take place in contemporary societies, which will contribute to widening the limits of what we call “religion” today. We expect to receive contributions that analyse some of the following topics:

Manifestations of religious nature or resemblance, such as sacralisation and rituals, that take place outside “temples” and in everyday life.

Interpretations and appropriations of religious and/or spiritual symbols in non-traditional practice contexts.

Uses and negotiations of the categories of religion and spirituality in specific contexts.

Ways in which the religious and/or spiritual shape or transform tangible or intangible heritage in public and private space.

HOW TO SUBMIT 

Submissions will be collected until May 15, 2023, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ 


Choose as article type: “Religion and Spirituality in Everyday Life”  

Before submission the authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors, available at: https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf 

All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication. 

Further questions about content for this thematic issue can be addressed to Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva at guillermo.duque@urjc.es. Technical or financial questions can be directed to journal Managing Editor Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com. 

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EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies: Call for Applications (2023-24). Deadline: 23 April 2023

18 January 2023 by EAJS Administrator

EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies

Call for Applications (2023-24)

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 23 April 2023

Link for Online Application Form

The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) invites applications to the EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies for the academic year 2023/24, funded by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. The purpose of this programme is twofold: to foster cooperation among scholars involved in Jewish Studies across Europe, and to support early career researchers in this field to develop a professional network.

Grants will be offered for two types of academic events, EAJS Conferences and EAJS Summer/Winter Schools. Academic excellence and the impact on network building in Jewish Studies across Europe will be key criteria, and international cooperation in the development of proposals is strongly encouraged.

As last year, grants will be available both for in-person events and for online events. Proposals for hybrid events are also welcome.

EAJS Conferences and Summer/Winter Schools may be devoted to any topic of relevance in Jewish Studies, including but not limited to Jewish history, Jewish thought, Jewish languages and literatures, Jewish history of science and knowledge, Jewish material heritage, Jewish topics in the social and political sciences and Hebrew.

The EAJS welcomes applications for online Summer/Winter Schools that create affordable opportunities for students from different European countries to meet face to face or virtually and to engage with an international team of teaching scholars.

For both EAJS Conferences and Summer/Winter Schools, a grant application must include a description of the core theme, topic or discourse to be examined, the rationale/justification for the event, the duration, the venue, and how the event will enhance international academic cooperation and networking.

The application must also outline the expected participants and explain how the proposed theme will be translated into the format of the event. For example, in the case of an EAJS Conference, this might be a discussion-focused one-day workshop or a wide-ranging synoptic conference. An application for a grant for an EAJS Conference should name scholars who have already committed to participate, although additional calls for papers and invitations to scholars in the field are possible. In the case of an EAJS Summer/Winter School, this outline should describe the faculty involved, the non-faculty participants (e.g., undergraduate/graduate students; postdocs/early-career scholars; general public), and how the theme will be translated into both lectures by faculty and active forms of involvement for the non-faculty participants (e.g., discussions, group work and presentations).

For both types of application, the applicant(s) are encouraged to invite participants from across Europe to allow for a broad representation of approaches and academic cultures. Cooperation between different institutions, preferably from different European countries, is encouraged. The EAJS welcomes applications that demonstrate a degree of public or Jewish communal impact.

Proposed budgets will be assessed against the academic excellence and relevance of the applications as well as its expected outcomes and outputs.

Applicants for in-person events may request between £1,600 and £8,000 for the travel, accommodation and basic maintenance expenses (i.e., lunch and coffees) of the active participants. Expenses for European keynote speakers may also be included. Applications that propose to assign a portion of these expenses to PhD students and early career researchers are encouraged.

Applicants for online events may request up to £1,500 for access to video conferencing systems, technical support, and organization.

Applicants for hybrid events may request up to £4,000 for the travel, accommodation and basic maintenance expenses (i.e., lunch and coffees) of the active in-person participants, in addition to access to video conferencing systems and technical support.

EAJS funds cannot be used to pay honoraria.

The exact amount awarded to the successful proposals will be decided by the EAJS’s award committee. In case of an event budget exceeding the award, the applicants must show evidence for the ability to provide for the remaining amount.

Applications are to be submitted by one or more scholars actively involved in Jewish Studies. The main applicant (who must be based at the host institution) must be a fully paid-up Full Member of the European Association for Jewish Studies. Co-applicants and the active participants are not required to be members of the EAJS, though the EAJS expects that most of the active participants will be involved in academic pursuits at European universities and academic institutions. The academic event must be hosted by a university or similar academic institution based in a European country and must be scheduled to occur between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2024.

The successful applicants will be required to produce a short academic report of the major outcomes which will be posted on the EAJS website. English must be one of the conference/instruction languages, though it need not necessarily be the only language for the event. The academic report must be written in English.

Submission process: Applications for the Conference Grant Programme must be submitted through the Online Application Form: <Online Application Form>

The deadline for applications is 23 April 2023 (23:59 BST).

Enquiries about the programme should be sent to admin@eurojewishstudies.org

Please note that applicants should identify and contact the relevant cost centre at their home institution (Department, Faculty, University) to avoid complications in the transfer of funds in case of a successful application. Also, applicants must document sufficient institutional support for holding the event at the host institution, and for the adequate administration of the funds.

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Conference Marking 100 Years since the Founding of the Turkish Republic 1923-2023  Trends in Research into the History and Culture of the Jewish Community in Modern Turkey, 31 October, 2023, deadline for abstracts: 28 Feb 2023 

16 January 2023 by kerry.maciak86453900

Conference Marking 100 Years since the Founding of the Turkish Republic 1923-2023 

Trends in Research into the History and Culture of the Jewish Community in Modern Turkey 

31 October, 2023 

 

Call for the Submission of Conference Abstracts 

Turkish Jewry is the largest of the Jewish communities still functioning in Islamic countries in the 21st century. In the past, Turkish Jewry was known to be a large, vibrant community, one that had immense influence both on the Jewish world and on the broader society of the Middle East and the Balkans.

The beginnings of the community apparently date back to the Second Temple period, but its most significant period of growth, in terms of both size and power, took place following the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. The exiles were warmly welcomed by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II, who gave new hope to the persecuted Spanish Jews, by allowing them to settle within the borders of the Empire. Over the years, Jews in the Ottoman Empire played an important role in commerce, medicine, and diplomacy, as well as making an outstanding contribution to cultural and spiritual life, both religious and secular, with Ladino becoming the community’s predominant language. For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire ruled over extensive portions of Europe, Asia and Africa, and Jewish communities existed in many regions under its control, including the Middle East, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. During the 19th century, however, the Ottoman Empire’s power began to wane, until its defeat in the First World War, and this was paralleled by the Jewish community declining in size and losing much of its power.

The Jews, like the rest of the minorities, were an integral part of the transformation of the old Ottoman Empire into a secular nation state following 1923. Throughout the history of the Republic, and particularly during specific historical events or episodes – for example, the Aliza Niego incident, the Thrace pogroms, the World War II Wealth Tax, the September 1955 riots, the terrorist attack at the Neve Shalom Synagogue in 1986, and Israel’s military operations against the Palestinians – questions regarding the identification and self-representation of the Jews of Turkey deepened. The overlapping borders of “Jewishness” and “Turkishness” created a variety of political identities, which meant that the Jews in the Republic adopted different, sometimes contradictory, approaches to exploring their own communal history. It goes without saying that part of the question of self-representation corresponds with the relationship of the community and the State of Israel, and the connection between Turkish Jewry and Zionism.

This conference will generally focus on the question of the borders between Jewish behaviors and attitudes in Turkey and Turkish perspectives on the subject of Turkish Jewry in particular and/or Judaism in general, over the course of the history of the Republic. In addition, the conference will seek to examine various research approaches to Turkish Jews and will consider, among other things, issues of self-representation and the discursive Jewish frameworks in the fields of religion, society, politics, economics, law and culture.

The conference will be held at Bar-Ilan University over a single day, on 16 Heshvan 5784, October 31, 2023, with the possibility of parallel sessions.

The conference theme includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

  • The legal and economic status of the Jews in Turkey
  • The Jews and their relationship with the Moslems and/or the other minorities in Turkey
  • Jewish newspapers in Turkey, then and now
  • The Rabbinic establishment, its importance and influence
  • Israel-Turkey relations, and their influence on the Jews of Turkey
  • Ladino as the language of the community
  • Jewish-Turkish singers, actors and artists
  • Antisemitic events such as the Aliza Niego incident, the imposition of the Wealth Tax during the Second World War, the incidents of September 1955, and so on
  • The Struma disaster and the reconsideration of this episode over the past decade
  • The Jews of Turkey and their attitude toward Zionism
  • Jewish involvement in political movements in Turkey
  • The rabbis of Turkey as a bridge between Turkey and Israel/the Islamic world
  • Assimilation processes among the Jews of Turkey
  • Jewish Migrations; or Migration of the Jews
  • Jewish Culture
  • Jewish History and Memory: From the establishment of the Republic to the Present

Abstracts should be submitted by February 28, 2023.

Responses will be sent by May 10, 2023.

Abstracts should be sent to the Dahan Center by email: dahan.center@biu.ac.il

 

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