Scholarships

Call for Applications for Fellowships. Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies: Between Sacred and Profane – Jewish Musical Cultures in Early Modern Europe. Closing date: 12 October 2018.

July 9, 2018 by EAJS Administrator

Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies

Between Sacred and Profane – Jewish Musical Cultures in Early Modern Europe

October 2019 to March 2020

Project leader: Diana Matut (Heidelberg/Halle-Wittenberg)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR FELLOWSHIPS

CLOSING DATE: 12 OCTOBER 2018

The Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies for 2019-2020 will focus on Ashkenazic, Italian-Jewish and Western Sephardic musical expressions in Europe during the early modern period (excluding European Jewish communities under Ottoman rule). Special emphasis will be given to the connection of liturgical, semi-liturgical and secular spheres within both composition and performance practice—hence the title “Between Sacred and Profane”. A group of up to eight Visiting Fellows in each Oxford term will examine the connections between these three major Jewish cultural entities (especially in urban spaces where they were all part of a complex Jewish soundscape) and external connections with the European musical cultures in which this Jewish music developed.

The study of Jewish Music 1500-1750 has been fuelled in the course of the last decades by the discovery of the early modern period as one of the formative periods in Jewish history; by a shift of focus from a ‘high culture’ perspective to the history of everyday life and gender studies, including the vernaculars and their musical expressions; by the rediscovery of important materials relating to the music of the Sephardic and Italian Jewish communities in the West; by reconstructions of Jewish song culture and performance practice in Italy and Ashkenaz; by the discovery of secondary sources on Jewish Music in this period in the writings of Christian Hebraists and fragments in Christian compositions; and by analysis of concepts expressed by Jewish religious authorities with regard to music. The group will build on this earlier work, examining in particular the manifestations of Jewish music which elude the categories found in Western musical traditions, such as synagogue music, prayer chants, various semi-liturgical songs and hymns and the traditions that would eventually evolve into klezmer, as well as the interdependence and processes of demarcation between sacred and profane in various European Jewish musical cultures throughout this period.

The group will be led by Diana Matut (Heidelberg/Halle-Wittenberg) and will include Ruth HaCohen (Hebrew University), Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University) and Deborah Rooke (Oxford).

Applications for Visiting Fellowships are invited from scholars working in any of these fields related to Jewish music from 1500-1750.

Each week, one member of the group will present an aspect of his or her research. In addition, weekly reading sessions will be held. Weekly seminars will be convened through the duration of two Oxford terms: 10 October to 8 December 2019 and 16 January to 18 March 2020. These will offer a forum for the Fellows to address central research topics related to the overall theme of the Seminar. The concluding conference will be held from 16 to 18 March 2020.

Visiting Fellows will receive an allowance of £2,515 (pro rata) per calendar month for the period of their tenure. Travelling expenses up to £550 pounds sterling will also be provided, and Fellows will be provided with a college association during their time at Oxford. Fellows will be expected to be in Oxford for at least one Oxford term. Applicants should indicate the specific research they would undertake in the course of Fellowship and how this research would contribute to the broader work of the project. Applications both by senior scholars and by scholars at postdoctoral and advanced doctoral level are welcome.

Closing date for applications: 12 October 2018

For more detailed information see: http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/academics/visiting-academics/visiting-fellows

or contact: Dr Diana Matut (diana.matut@judaistik.uni-halle.de)

For any other queries contact: Martine Smith-Huvers (registrar@ochjs.ac.uk)

Call for Applications. Katz Center Fellowship: “The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In.” Application deadline: October 31, 2018

July 3, 2018 by EAJS Administrator

Call for Applications: Katz Center Fellowship

The Herbert D. Katz Center at The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2019–2020 academic year on the theme of The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In.

The Katz Center will devote our 2019–2020 fellowship year to the home—to what happens inside Jewish homes and what connects those homes to life outside. We invite applications from scholars in any academic field who are seeking to advance research that will shed light on this most formative and intimate of contexts for Jewish life, including the very definition of home.

As an object of inquiry, the home has not one door but many. We are planning a year that will look into the Jewish home across many different thresholds/entryways and look back out from the home into the broader world. Relevant topics may include the history of domestic architecture and material culture, anthropological research into kinship, parenting, gender roles, and master-servant relationships; literary instantiations of the home as an object of memory and imagination; representations of Jewish domesticity in the visual arts, including theatre, film, and television; the analysis of Jewish law as it relates to family life and sex; the economics of consumption and display; the ritual study of the life cycle as it plays out in domestic contexts; and urban studies that approach the home as part of neighbourhoods or larger social contexts, among others.

Eligible projects may be focused on the home in any period of Jewish history, extending from the four room houses of Iron Age Canaan to contemporary Jewish retirement communities. The year is also open to projects that may not be focused on the home per se but are helpful for understanding it, such as research on the history of privacy or the anthropology of childhood. The Center’s goal is to support individual projects, but it also seeks to develop an intellectually diverse cohort which means the ideal applicant will be one willing to learn from and work with scholars from other disciplines or focused on other periods.

Eligibility

The Katz Center invites applications from scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts at all levels. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or expect to receive their degree no later than August 2019.

An additional opportunity for 2019–2020: Israel Institute Fellowship

With funding from the Israel Institute and in partnership with Penn’s Jewish Studies Program, the Katz Center is offering a teaching fellowship in 2019–2020. Full details are available on our website.

Application opens: June 1, 2018

Application deadline: October 31, 2018

Announcement of fellowship recipients: March 31, 2019

Commencement of fellowship period: Variable, from September 2019 to May 2020

Duration of fellowship period: One semester (fall or spring) or full academic year

Please visit katz.sas.upenn.edu for more information about the Katz Center’s fellowship program and to access the online application portal.

International Grant for Researches on History and Culture of Russian Jewry in Different Historical Periods. Sefer Center, Moscow. Deadline: 1 September 2018

June 21, 2018 by EAJS Administrator

SEFER CENTER INTERNATIONAL GRANT FOR RESEARCHES ON HISTORY AND CULTURE OF RUSSIAN JEWRY IN DIFFERENT HISTORICAL PERIODS

SEFER Center awards grants to support researches in multiple disciplines on Russian Jewry. The subject of the research may comprise different aspects of Jewish history and culture within the territory of former Russian Empire during various historical periods from the ancient times till post-soviet contemporary period. The grant covers the entire variety of humanitarian and social areas (history, literature, linguistics, art history, education, philosophy, religion studies, sociology, political science etc.), as well as interdisciplinary studies. The Center provides researchers, teachers and PhD students with financial support for implementation of academic researches, preparation of monographs, articles and dissertation theses. The grant program is intended for researchers from Russia and abroad, including Europe, USA and Canada, Israel and Australia.

Two types of research grants are open for applications:

а) Faculty Research Grants for the researchers with academic degree will not exceed 150 000 rubles (approx $2500) and will cover up to 50% of the total cost of the proposed research project.

b) Post-Graduate Students Research Grants for the PhD students and researchers without academic degree will not exceed 90 000 rubles (approx $1500) and may cover up to 100% of the total project cost.

Proposals must be submitted by September, 1, 2018 via e-mail sefer.center@gmail.com

This project has been made possible with the support of Genesis Philanthropy Group.

https://www.sefer.ru/eng/education/educational_programmes/eshnav/russian_jewry.php

Postdoctoral Fellowships. Mandel Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and Jewish Studies for 2019–2022. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Deadline for application: 2 September 2018.

June 18, 2018 by EAJS Administrator

Mandel Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

announces the

Mandel Postdoctoral Fellowships

in the Humanities and Jewish Studies for 2019–2022

The Mandel Fellowships are intended for scholars, from Israel and abroad, who have shown exceptional excellence, depth, and originality, and whose research may enrich academic and cultural discourse.
Applications will be accepted from candidates who completed their doctoral degrees no earlier than October 1, 2014. Candidates who have not yet completed their degrees may apply if they have submitted their dissertations by September 2, 2018. If awarded the fellowship, their acceptance will be conditional upon approval of their doctoral degrees by April 1, 2019.
Mandel Scholars engage in research in optimal conditions and teach one annual course (2 hours per week). Teaching in English is possible.
Mandel Scholars receive approximately 150,000 NIS per year in addition to a research budget.
The fellowship is for three years, beginning October 1, 2019. There is an option for a two- or one-year tenure.
Scholars are selected on a competitive basis with no preference for a specific field of study in the humanities or Jewish studies.

Deadline for Applications:September 2, 2018

Mandel Scholion Website: http://en.scholion.huji.ac.il/

Terms of the Fellowship

Mandel Scholars will devote their time to research and are not allowed to work elsewhere, apart from teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Mandel Scholars are each allotted an office in the Mandel Building on Mount Scopus, where they are to carry out their ongoing research at least four days a week. Scholars will also engage in the Center’s joint activities, approximately once a month.
The fellowship begins on October 1, 2019 and ends on September 30, 2022. Fellows will submit reports on their research at the end of each academic year (by July 15) and in the middle of the second year (by January 15). Reports should focus on the fellow’s research progress during the period reviewed and research goals for the next period.
The Center’s academic committee is authorized to terminate a fellowship at the end of the first or second year, if the aforementioned terms (sections 1-3) are not met.
The Fellowship is subject to the Hebrew University’s postdoctoral regulations

Submission Procedure

Applications are to be submitted via the Humanities section of Hebrew University’s Scholarship System according to the instructions provided there.

Please note that the applications system will close on Sunday, September 2, 2018, at 23:59 (Israeli time)!

Applicants must submit:

Online application form
Curriculum vitae – up to two pages
List of publications
Statement of purpose – Please describe, in up to two pages, your academic research goals and intentions for the next couple of years. In your statement, please explain, inter alia, the relationship of your project to your doctoral work and whether it is feasible to pursue it in Jerusalem.
Academic writing – Please upload an academic publication or writing sample, up to thirty pages long.
Dissertation abstract – up to two pages
Two letters of recommendation – Please ask two scholars who know you and your work to submit letters of recommendation, by Sept. 2, according to the guidelines and instructions given on the online system.

Selection Process

In mid-November 2018, shortlisted candidates from Israel and abroad will be invited to come to Jerusalem to be interviewed by the Center’s Academic Committee on Thursday, December 27, 2018.

Please email any questions to scholion@savion.huji.ac.il