AJS and EAJS Membership Initiative
AJS and EAJS Membership Initiative
The Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), in partnership with the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), is proud to announce the following membership initiative: Any European scholar in the field of Jewish Studies who lives and works in Europe and has never been a member of the AJS is invited to apply for a FREE one-year membership to the AJS. This AJS membership comes with all the full benefits of an AJS membership including: subscriptions to the AJS Review and AJS Perspectives, ability to submit a proposal to the AJS annual conference, access discounted conference registration fees, ability to apply to a variety of AJS awards, fellowships, and professional development programs.
If you have any questions, please email Melinda Mann at the AJS (mman@associationforjewishstudies.org), and for more information about AJS membership, please visit associationforjewishstudies.org/membership
Postdoctoral research associate position in Medieval Hebrew Palaeography-HMDA, deadline for applicants: 30 May 2024
Postdoctoral research associate position in Medieval Hebrew Palaeography-HMDA, deadline for applicants: 30 May 2024
Postdoctoral research associate position in Medieval Hebrew Palaeography-HMDA
Application deadline: 30 May 2024 Midnight, Central European Summer Time
The École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University in Paris, France, is hiring one postdoctoral research associate in Hebrew Palaeography. The successful candidate will join the team led by Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger in the framework of the project Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age directed by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra.
Working closely with Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and the other team members, the selected postdoctoral research associate will be responsible for annotating palaeographical samples of Medieval Hebrew manuscripts for the online Hebrew Palaeography Album (HebrewPal).
Position : Full-time postdoctoral research associate (35h/week)
Employer : Paris, France : Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques. The postdoctoral research associate will be also affiliated with the research cluster EA 4116 – SAPRAT-Savoirs et pratiques du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine.
Place of employment : EPHE, PSL, Condorcet Campus, Paris, France.
Length of the contract : 1 year with possibility of extending for 1 additional year.
Start date : 1 October 2024
Essential qualifications :
- Doctorate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, with specialisation in medieval history, manuscripts, art history or book history
- Training / experience with Manuscript Studies
Required skills:
- Excellent knowledge of Hebrew
- Excellent writing skills in English and preferably knowledge of French
- Experience with / knowledge of large databases
- Research experience
- Excellent organisation and sense of responsibility
- Capacity to work in a team
To apply:
Send (as a single PDF file with your name and HMDA):
- Letter of motivation
- CV
- List of publications
- Sample of a published work or a thesis chapter
- Two letters of recommendation from thesis advisers and/or senior academic figure
To: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger at the address: judith.schlanger@ephe.sorbonne.fr by 30 May 2024 at the latest
Contact : For further particulars, please contact Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, judith.schlanger@ephe.sorbon
Journal of Jewish Studies: LUP and Call for Papers
Journal of Jewish Studies: LUP and call for papers
The Editors of the Journal of Jewish Studies are glad to announce, on the 75th anniversary of the Journal, that publication and distribution of the Journal will be outsourced from now onwards to Liverpool University Press, following the recent retirement of Margaret Vermes, longstanding JJS Managing Editor. The Editorial team will remain based at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
We take this opportunity to call for submission of papers. Papers from junior to senior scholars are most welcome, from the late biblical to the modern era. We aim to publish within one year only from the date of initial submission.
CFP: Summer School for Young Researchers in History annual, internationally-oriented event organized by the Center for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC). Deadline for applications 6th May 2024.
The Summer School for Young Researchers in History is an annual, internationally-oriented event organized by the Center for the History of Society and Culture (CHSC). Its primary goal is to foster dialogue, debate, and collaboration among young researchers in History. The theme of the first edition of the Summer School is “Refuges, Exiles, and Migrations”. The objective is to reflect on the phenomena of refuge, migration, and exile, from the medieval period to the present day, discussing the meaning of these concepts, the continuities, overlaps and ruptures that the movements of these groups of people have caused in multiple dimensions of political, economic, social, cultural, and religious life, both in the places of arrival and in the territories of departure. The discussion should focus on the reasons for refuge/exile, national, international, and transnational reception policies, as well as the various narratives that surrounded them, thus promoting the analysis of collective histories and individual paradigmatic trajectories (agency) that determined these global phenomena. The dynamics of refuge and exile in medieval and modern times, the evolution of the concepts of “refugee” and “exile,” and later the concept of “migrant”, in correlation with the massive waves of displaced people after the two world wars, can also serve as starting points for analyzing the challenges that these movements pose in the present. Ultimately, creating historical knowledge that fuels a broader discussion regarding international solidarity and cooperation as responses to the current migratory crisis.
Topics Proposals:
We suggest the following research strands, which should be taken separately but rather as intersecting plans: Cultural Assimilation and Identity; Globalization and Transnational Movements; Impact of Displacement on Societies; Historical Evolution of Migration Concepts; Reception Policies and Narratives; Drivers of Displacement throughout History.
Deadline for applications: 6 May 2024https://forms.gle/WWTPQtc4wLJVfFqm7
Link for submitting proposals: