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Funder name: Posen Foundation (Research Fellowships)

Correspondant: Myrna Baron
Correspondant title: Executive Director
Address: Posen Foundation, 19 Rothschild Boulevard
Tel Aviv

Country: Isreal
Telephone: +972-3-5410320
E-mail: nfo@posenfoundation.co.il
Website: https://www.posenfoundation.co.il/en/
Funding objective / Areas of interest: Posen Foundation Fellows in the fields of Secular Judaism and Judaism as Culture

Students and scholars in Israel may apply for the following:

Grant applications for research fellowships in the fields of Secular Judaism and Judaism as Culture are being accepted. The grants will be awarded to students and scholars in Israel at doctoral and post-doctoral levels from the humanities, social sciences, education or arts, who are fully engaged with well-established university departments able to research themes drawn from the following fields:

1) Modernization and secularization in Jewish life during the past 250 years, including: secularization of Jewish thought, historiography, Biblical scholarship, the secularization of daily life, Jewish politics, the emergence of modern national and social movements.
2) Intellectual, political and social underpinning of secularism and secularization in Jewish history, culture and way of life, linkages between secularization and other related processes, such as modernization, democratization, liberalization, pluralism, globalization.
3) Aspects and manifestations of Jewish secularism in the arts, literature, lifestyle and practices. The renewal of Hebrew as a lay language and of secular Hebrew literature, the rise and decline of the secular Yiddish culture in Europe and in USA, aspects of secular cultural experience in the pre-state Yishuv and in Israeli society, Readings in Jewish traditional culture in a secular approach. Although the Posen Foundation mainly supports USA and Israel, interviews with EAJS members showed that there are instances of funding for European institutions/scholars – in the UK and Poland.
Type of funding available: Ten Fellowships available.
Beneficiary type:
Eligibility criteria: Majority of Fellowships awarded to students and scholars in Israel.
Exclusions / restrictions:
Example grants: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship awarded to a scholar at UCL in the UK
Application guidelines: Posen Foundation Fellowship Programme details available here:

http://www.posenfoundation.co.il/en/plan/the-posen-society-of-fellows/

Next deadline expected to be March 2021.
Trustees:
Additional information:
Information sources: http://posenfoundation.com/home.html

Areas of Interest

Contemporary Studies, Jewish Studies and Resources, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Religion and Religious Movements

Beneficial Areas

Regions
Europe

Countries:
Israel

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