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Position. Research associate for doctoral position. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Deadline for applications: 19 July 2019.

June 24, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

External Job Announcement

Appointment Scheme Number:

Halle, June 5, 2019

The Seminar for Jewish Studies of the Oriental Studies Institute at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Department of Arts, Oriental and Ancient Studies) is looking for a research associate for a doctoral position, starting immediately, for a limited period of 3 years.

This is a part-time job (50%).

Compensation will be paid after the transfer of the function and after all personal requirements for the pay category 13 TV-L have been met.

Requirements:

• Above-average university degree (MA) in the field of Jewish Studies or another field of Oriental Studies

• Willingness to work on a research topic in the area of Sephardic Judaism in the Middle Ages or modern Near/Middle East

• Knowledge of rabbinic Judaism and familiarity with methods from the cultural studies

• Excellent knowledge of Hebrew (Arabic and modern Hebrew desirable) and proficiency in spoken and written English

• Capacity for teamwork

Tasks:

• Research and teaching support in the field of Jewish Studies with a focus on Sephardic Judaism in the Middle Ages and the modern era

• Support in the acquisition of third-party funding

• Scientific organization

• This job includes the possibility of a doctorate

Applicants with severe disabilities who are equally qualified will be given preferential treatment. Women are encouraged to apply. For further questions please contact Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse at ottfried.fraisse@judaistik.uni-halle.de

Applications with all relevant documents should be submitted by July 19, 2019 under Reg-Nr. 4-2113/19-H and in electronic form to Prof. Fraisse, as well as in paper form to: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Philosophische Fakultät I, Institut für Orientalistik, Seminar für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien, Prof. Dr. Ottfried Fraisse, 06099 Halle (Saale).

This position is subject to potential budgetary constraints.

Application costs will not be reimbursed. Application documents will only be returned if a sufficiently stamped return envelope has been provided.

Post-doctoral position (100%) for Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Deadline: 1 July 2019. Announcement in German and English.

June 18, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

JOB OPPORTUNITY
GERMAN VERSION BELOW

JOB: A post-doctoral position (100%) for Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg

At Heidelberg University’s Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures”
the position of a

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) 100%

in the discipline “Jewish Studies”

is to be filled from 01.07.2019.

The position is embedded in the sub-project B04 “The Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Properties in Western Europe” (PI: Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss). In the current phase of the project, investigation will focus on the material changes from manuscripts to printed books and the accompanying shifts in the praxeological properties of Ashkenazic Bible text traditions. First and foremost, the relationship between Bible manuscript and printed Bible will be scrutinized with a view to consequences concerning practical aspects of the reception (text- and hypertext volume e.g. Masorah and Targum; layout; format; binding). Emphasis will be placed not only on the artefacts, but also on the involved people; thus, one case study will concern itself by way of example with the role played by the first book printers. The time interval of the prints to be probed in this sub-project stretches from the period of the incunabula to the early prints, rounding off with the so-called Rabbinic Bible / Mikraot Gedolot.

Requirements

completed doctoral degree in Jewish studies
very good command of Hebrew and Aramaic
profound knowledge of the cultural and/or literary theories relevant for the Collaborative Research Centre or willingness to gain it
experience with project research and capacity for teamwork
interest in the Collaborative Research Centre’s work and readiness for interdisciplinary co-operation and for work in a team

Tasks:

scientific development of the sub-project
research travel to national and international libraries and collections
communication of research processes and results within the Collaborative Research Centre 933 and the teaching- and research sector of the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
co-operation in the interdisciplinary workshops and theory-centered groups of the Collaborative Research Centre
scientific preparation of and attendance at conferences and workshops of the sub-project

We offer work in a diverse environment – both within the field and cross-disciplinary. The Collaborative Research Center presents with its 18 different subjects a broad spectrum of research in the liberal arts with foci in antiquity, the middle ages and early modern times (history, art history, Romance philology, Greek philology, Assyriology, Egyptology, Papyrology and many more).

A working space at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies will be provided.

The salary will be determined in accordance with TV-L. The position can be divided into two part-time 50% positions. The contract is a fixed-term contract from 01.07.2019 until 30.06.2023. A later start of work is possible, latest October 1st, 2019. With no further extension possible.

Please send in a complete application with all supporting materials in one pdf (CV, list of publications, cover letter) to hanna.liss@hfjs.eu (deadline 01.07.2019).

The University of Heidelberg is committed to building a diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from female candidates. Applicants with disabilities will be given preference.

Furhter information on the Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures”: https://www.materiale-textkulturen.de/

JOB: Eine PostDoc-Stelle (100%) für Judaistik / Jüdische Studien, Universität Heidelberg

Am SFB 933 „Materiale Textkulturen“ der Universität Heidelberg ist ab 1. Juli 2019 die Stelle

eines akademischen Mitarbeiters / einer akademischen Mitarbeiterin (w/m/d)
im Fach „Judaistik / Jüdische Studien“ (PostDoc, 100%)

zu besetzen.

Die Stelle ist im Teilprojekt B04 „Der Masoretische Text der Hebräischen Bibel in seinen unterschiedlichen materialen Gestaltungen in Westeuropa“ (Projektleiterin: Prof. Dr. Hanna Liss) angesiedelt. In der aktuellen Phase nimmt das TP den materialen Wandel von Handschriften zum Buchdruck und die damit einhergehenden Veränderungen für die praxeologische Ausgestaltung aschkenasischer Bibeltexttraditionen in den Blick. Die Relation von Bibelmanuskript und Bibeldruck soll vor allem mit Blick auf rezeptionspraktische Konsequenzen untersucht werden (Text- und Hypertext-Umfang wie Masora und Targum; Layout, Format; Bindung). Neben den Artefakten fokussiert das TP auf die mit ihnen verbundenen Akteure, indem eine exemplarische Fallstudie die Rolle der Erstdrucker in den Blick nehmen soll. Der Zeitraum der im TP zu untersuchenden Drucke umfasst die Periode von den Inkunabel-Drucken ab bis zu den Frühdrucken mit ihrem ersten Abschluss in der sog. Rabbinerbibel/Miqraot Gedolot.

Anforderungen:

Abgeschlossene Dissertation in Judaistik / Jüdische Studien
Sehr gute Hebräisch- und Aramäischkenntnisse
Fundierte Kenntnisse in den Kultur- und/oder Literaturtheorien, die für den SFB relevant sind oder die Bereitschaft, sich einzuarbeiten
Erfahrung mit Projektforschung und Teamfähigkeit
Interesse an der SFB-Arbeit sowie die Bereitschaft zu interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit und zur Arbeit im Team

Aufgaben:

Wissenschaftliche Weiterentwicklung des Teilprojektes
Aufnahme von Forschungsreisen in in- und insbesondere ausländischen Bibliotheken / Sammlungen
Kommunikation der Forschung und ihrer Ergebnisse in den SFB 933 sowie in den Lehr- und Forschungsbetrieb der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg
Mitarbeit in den interdisziplinären Arbeits- und Theoriegruppen des SFB
Wissenschaftliche Vorbereitung von und Mitarbeit an Konferenzen und Workshops des Teilprojektes

Wir bieten eine Arbeit in einem abwechslungsreichen disziplinären und interdisziplinären Umfeld. Der SFB 933 bietet mit 18 verschiedenen Fächern ein weites Spektrum geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung mit Schwerpunkten in der Antike, dem Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit (Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Romanistik, Gräzistik, Assyriologie, Ägyptologie, Papyrologie u.v.m.).

Es wird ein eigener Arbeitsplatz in der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien zur Verfügung gestellt.

Die Vergütung erfolgt nach TV-L. Die Stelle ist grundsätzlich teilbar und wird für vier Jahre vergeben: 1. Juli 2019 bis 30. Juni 2023, ein etwas späterer Beginn ist möglich (spätestens Herbst 2019), eine Verlängerung ist nicht möglich.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (bitte als ein pdf-Dokument) sind bis spätestens 1. Juli 2019 per E-Mail zu senden an: hanna.liss@hfjs.eu

Die Universität Heidelberg strebt in den Bereichen, in denen Frauen unterrepräsentiert sind, die Erhöhung des Frauenanteils an und bittet daher qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich um ihre Bewerbung.

Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung vorrangig eingestellt.

Weitere Informationen zum SFB 933: https://www.materiale-textkulturen.de/

Annual Fellowship. The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 2020-2021.

June 18, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

ANNUAL FELLOWSHIP 2020-2021

The Herbert D. Katz Center at The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2020–2021 academic year on the theme of America’s Jewish Questions.

New attention to the diversity of Jewish practices, politics, and peoples, at home and abroad, compels us to reconsider many of the basic assumptions and concepts that have shaped the study of American Jews. This fellowship year promises multiple entry points into some of the most pressing debates within US history and Jewish history, and intersects with vital questions shaping Jewish cultural studies, literary theory, and social scientific inquiry. Even as the recent rise of anti-Semitism and the emerging challenges to Zionism in the United States have been sources for contemporary Jewish debate, broader trends in Jewish scholarship over the last two decades also suggest the need for critical reinterpretations of American Jewish culture and community.

In an effort to make the most of this moment, the Katz Center invites applications from scholars pursuing research that revises, reframes, or expands our understanding of American Jews, their history, religious life, politics, culture, and experience. Possible topics may include but are not limited to: nationalism and sovereignty in globalizing contexts; religious experimentation and innovation; civil society and the state; constructions of gender, sexuality, and race; systems of jurisprudence and economics; aesthetic and cultural expression; linguistics; mobility, migrations, urbanism, and Jewish life in unexpected places. The fellowship year aims to be in conversation with developments beyond Jewish studies, and applications are welcome from scholars whose work crosses national or religious boundaries and who explore the complex connections that American Jews created throughout Europe, Latin America, Palestine/Israel, and other parts of the world. The Center also welcomes projects that engage in public scholarship or that seek to communicate to new audiences in new ways.

Fellowship stipends are based on academic standing, and range from $50,000 to $60,000 for the academic year.

For further information and access to the online application portal, please see our website: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowships/fellowship-program/call-applications or contact the fellowship administrator, Carrie Love: carrielo@upenn.edu

The deadline for applications is 23 September, 2019.

International Workshop. “Globalising French Jewish Politics”. CEU. Budapest. 2-3 July 2019.

June 18, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: GLOBALIZING FRENCH JEWISH POLITICS

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, 2-3 JULY 2019

TUESDAY 2 JULY 2019, GELLNER ROOM, NÁDOR UTCA 9, MONUMENT BUILDING

12 p.m. Lunch and registration

1 p.m. Welcome

1:10 p.m. Transnational aspects of nineteenth-century French Jewish politics

Chair: Miklós Konrád (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Carsten Wilke (Central European University)

Not French, but Universal: The Supranational Ideology and Practice of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in the Age of Franco-German Confrontation

Barbara Lambauer (SIRICE, Paris)

Connectors between East and West: The Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Jewish Colonization Association and the exodus from Central and Eastern Europe, 1881-1914

2:20 p.m. Coffee break

2:50 p.m. French Jews and Zionism

Chair: Mary Gluck (Brown University)

Joshua Leung (Science Po Paris)

French and British Jewish at the Paris Peace Conference and the protection of minority rights in Poland

Stefania Ragaù (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

Theocratic anarchism in Jacques Bahar’s Zionist Utopia: An unusual voice of French Jewish politics between Humanism and Zionism

Joel Swanson (The University of Chicago)

A Pathologically Abnormal Situation: Le Cercle Gaston Crémieux and the Possibility of a non-French French Jewishness

6 p.m. KEYNOTE LECTURE, NÁDOR UTCA 15, ROOM 106

Lisa M. Leff, Professor of History, American University & Director, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Panama Affair: An Antisemitic Scandal in an Age of Globalization

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY 2019, GELLNER ROOM, NÁDOR UTCA 9, MONUMENT BUILDING

10:00 a.m. Coffee break

10:15 a.m. Accommodating, shaping and challenging the colonial order

Chair: Lisa M. Leff (Washington)

Noëmie Duhaut (Leibniz-Institute of European History, Mainz)

Adolphe Crémieux, a typical failed French universalist?

Yuval Tal (Johns Hopkins University)

Jewish Class Politics and Critique of Republican Universalism in French Algeria

Zoe Roth (Durham University)

The Poetics of Politics: Writing Jewish Anti-Colonial Activism in Algeria

12:00 p.m Lunch break

12:45 p.m. Migrations and Refugees before and during WWII

Chair: Constantin Iordachi (Central European University)

Darcy C. Benson (The Ohio State University)

Emerging Networks: The Pre-war Role of Labor Unions and the Communist Party in Forming Paris’s FTP-MOI Brigade

Nina Valbousquet (Fordham University & Ecole Française de Rome)

An International Cause Célèbre: Transatlantic Jewish Diplomacy and the Persecution of Algerian Jews during WWII

Stacy Veeder (University of New York at Albany)

Identity, Resistance and Relief in Correspondence from the Jewish Internees of Occupied France, 1940-1944

2:30 p.m. Coffee break

2:45 p.m. Politics of Memory and Education in the Wake of the Holocaust

Chair: Carsten Wilke (Central European University)

Nadia Malinovich (Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités, CNRS/EPHE, PSL Research University)

Continuity and Change in the Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Morocco and Iran in the Post-War Era

Dominic Williams (University of Leeds)

Claude Lanzmann: Multidirectional Politics

3:55 p.m. Concluding discussion

Conveners and contact:

Dr. Noëmie Duhaut, Leibniz-Institute of European History, Mainz

Duhaut@ieg-mainz.de

Dr. Nina Valbousquet, Fordham University & École Française de Rome

nvalbousquet@fordham.edu

Organized by the CEU Jewish Studies Program, with the support of the CEU Center for Religious Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.

EAJS Supported Conference: Musica Judaica Conference. Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. 14 – 15 July 2019.

June 10, 2019 by EAJS Administrator

Musica Judaica Conference – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Jewish music between oral and written traditions – The 19th Century in Context

Sunday-Monday, 14-15 July 2019

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Clarendon Institute
Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG

Musica Judaica brings together scholars, performers and cantors for a two-day invitational conference to investigate the interdependence, interference and interconnectivity of oral and written traditions within Jewish Music in European Ashkenazic cultures from the early 19th century until the Shoah. The conference takes into account the late medieval and early modern pre-history of the period as well as its contemporary non-Jewish cultural contexts. Presentations explore wider theoretical questions reflecting on problematic terms such as “classical”, the artificial division between sacred and secular, and the use of music as source for writing Jewish history.

The conference is organised by Marton Ribary (University of Manchester) and Diana Matut (Halle-Wittenberg/Heidelberg). It includes two round table discussions and four academic sessions. The keynote lecture is given by Mark Kligman (UCLA) which includes professional musical accompaniment with Alexander Knapp (SOAS) on piano, Rabbi Cantor Gershon Silins as the lead cantorial voice and a choir of twelve of the Joyful Company of Singers led by Peter Broadbent.

Please RSVP on the email address specified on the conference’s web page [link] on the website of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The conference brochure (formatted for A5 page size and designed to be printed in booklet format) can also be downloaded from this web page.