Calls

Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Fellowship Program: 
Call for Applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for the academic year 2026-2027 under the theme "Individual and Collective in German-Jewish Life and Culture".

Calls for papers: https://www.lbi.org/news/conference-2026/​

Director of Library
Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Seminary Librarian
Salary range: $160,000–$180,000

The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) has the most prominent collection of Judaica in the Western Hemisphere. It houses one of the largest collections, spanning from early Hebrew manuscripts and printed books through contemporary sources, and including ephemera, art, music, and archives.

Researchers from across the globe rely on the collection at JTS to produce the highest level of scholarly output. The Library’s mission is to collect and preserve the literary and cultural heritage of the Jewish people of all eras, making it available to scholars world-wide. Over the past decades, The Library has received prestigious grants from public and private sources to enrich and enhance its efforts in fulfillment of The Library’s mission.

JTS is seeking a Seminary Librarian to lead The Library’s staff and to chart an inspirational course that will make the breadth of the collection known to new audiences both within the JTS community and beyond. The Librarian will be a visionary leader with a deep appreciation for the importance of our cultural heritage and of the importance of rare materials in telling the story of the Jewish people. The successful candidate will represent JTS and The Library to other institutions and communities, in the U.S., Israel, and the world over, and ensure the continued strength and growth of the collection.

The Seminary Librarian will be considered a member of the JTS Faculty Assembly, rank and status to be determined.

Responsibilities

    •    Develop a vision for The Library as it enters the second quarter of the 21st century and work with the Director of Library Services to implement this vision.
    •    Work in partnership with the Director of Library Services on tasks including annual budgeting, management of staff, applying for grants, formulating policies of service, and other tasks.
    •    Work in partnership with the Department of Institutional Advancement to fundraise for The Library and JTS, including travel to present Library materials to potential donors across North America.
    •    Oversee in-person and online programming, including the planning, design, publicity, and production of exhibits and other events.
    •    Oversee The Library’s online presence.
    •    Teach about the collection including collaboration with faculty and academic departments to integrate Library resources into course curricula.
    •    Teach courses in their area of expertise (courseload to be determined). 
    •    Work collaboratively with the lay Library Advisory Board.

Qualifications

    •    Demonstrated effectiveness as a leader, scholar, and presenter.
    •    Record of success as fundraiser and grant recipient.
    •    Expertise in the digital humanities and AI.
    •    Experience with the workings of an academic research library.
    •    Ability to develop relationships with potential donors.
    •    Demonstrate and/or acquire expertise in The Library’s special collections.
    •    Ability to work well with team members, institutional staff and management, and lay leadership.
    •    Outstanding educator and communicator, both orally and in writing.
    •    Work productively with feedback from both professional and lay sources.
    •    Doctorate or equivalent in a field of Jewish Studies or Library Sciences.
    •    Languages: English, Hebrew Fluency required.

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is committed to providing a pleasant and rewarding work environment for staff and faculty, one that fosters cooperation and mutual respect. All positions listed below are currently open.

It is JTS policy that all applicants for employment are afforded equal opportunities for employment, without regard to race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, caregiver status, sexual and reproductive health decisions, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, uniformed service or military status, any lawful source of income, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, or any other legally prohibited status, or any other factors as prohibited by law.

To Apply

Applicants should send a CV and a cover letter explaining their interest in the position and providing a brief overview of their vision for The Library. These materials should be sent to jtsaresumes@jtsa.edu (mail to: jtsaresumes@jtsa.edu) with the job title in the subject line.
Applications received by March 16, 2026, will be given priority consideration.

Special Issue Editor: Prof. Dr. Sergey Dolgopolski
Departments of Jewish Thought and Comparative Liteature, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, USA.
Interests: interactions between Talmud and philosophy; literary theory; theory of rhetoric; interactions between Talmud, rhetoric and literature.

Click here to read the Special Issue.

Click here to download the Special Issue flyer.

Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie

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Two Postdoc positions are available at the Martin Buber Professorship for Jewish Religious Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt as part of the LOEWE Center „Dynamics of Religion“!

At Goethe University Frankfurt, Philipps University Marburg, and Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art, and Culture (HMWK) is funding a new LOEWE center entitled „Dynamics of Religion: Ambivalent Neighbourhoods between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Historical and Contemporary Constellations“ (2026-2032, 1st funding phase 2026-2029). Under the leadership of Goethe University Frankfurt, the interdisciplinary LOEWE Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences focuses in its five program areas and 31 subprojects on researching the complex — both dialogical and conflictual — religious, cultural, and political-social interrelationships and dynamics between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in history and the present day. The academic coordinator of the LOEWE Center is Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt); Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Prof. Dr. Antje Röder (Philipps University Marburg) serve as deputies.

Two third-party funded Postdoc-positions for research assistants (m/f/d) (E13 TV-G-U, 100%) are available at the Department of Protestant Theology (coordinating unit) at Goethe University Frankfurt from January 1st, 2026 or later for a fixed term until December 31, 2029.

One position is part of the subproject in Jewish Religious Philosophy: „Knowledge Transfer in the Encounter between Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Philosophy: Historical and Historiographical Perspectives“ (Prof. Christian Wiese, FB 06, and Prof. Yossef Schwartz, Tel Aviv University)

The other position is part of the subproject in Jewish Religious Philosophy / Jewish History: „Jewish Diasporic Concepts and Experiences of Multireligious Neighbourhoods in Confrontation with Modern Anti-Semitism“ (Prof. Christian Wiese and Adjunct Prof. Stefan Vogt, FB 06)

For a description of the center’s overall program, the different subprojects and the specific requirements for the positions, see: https://dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/

For the job advertisement of the two positions (including further positions in other fields of research), see: https://dynamiken-des-religioesen.uni-frankfurt.de/aussc/

Please send applications by January 9, 2026 to the following Email-adress: personal.fb06@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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Ausschreibung: 10 Post-Doc-Stellen am LOEWE-Zentrum „DynaRel“

At Goethe University Frankfurt, Philipps University Marburg, and Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art, and Culture (HMWK) is funding a new LOEWE center entitled „Dynamics of Religion: Ambivalent Neighbourhoods between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Historical and Contemporary Constellations“ (2026-2032, 1st funding phase 2026-2029). Under the leadership of Goethe University Frankfurt, the interdisciplinary LOEWE Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences focuses in its five program areas and 31 subprojects on researching the complex — both dialogical and conflictual — religious, cultural, and political-social interrelationships and dynamics between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in history and the present day. The academic coordinator of the LOEWE Center is Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt); Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Prof. Dr. Antje Röder (Philipps University Marburg) serve as deputies. 

Subject to final approval by the HMWK, 15 third-party funded positions for Research Assistants (m/f/d) (E13 TV-G-U, 65% part-time). Click here to read the call (English at the bottom).

Subject to final approval by the HMWK, 10 third-party funded positions for Research Assistants (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U). Click here to read the call (English at the bottom).

Click here to download the vacancy.

Call for Papers - International Academic Conference

Kabbalah and Modernity

2-4 December, 2025

The Matanel Chair for the Study of Kabbalah
The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East
Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem

To read the Call, click here.

Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025-26
Beginning 1.10.2025
The deadline for submission is 15.12.2024
For details >

Die Europa-Universität Viadrina ist eine international und interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reform-Universität, die in der Doppelstadt Frankfurt (Oder)-Słubice auf der polnischen und deutschen Seite der Oder rund 4.000 Studierende aus aller Welt in rechts-, wirtschafts- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Studiengängen ausbildet. Sie lebt die europäische Idee im Alltag, fördert in Lehre und Forschung die europäische Integration und bildet mit rund 300 wissenschaftlichen und 300 nichtwissenschaftlichen Beschäftigten eine Gemeinschaft, der die gelingende Kommunikation und Kooperation mit dem östlichen Europa ein besonderes Anliegen ist. 

An der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät am Axel Springer-Lehrstuhl für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration ist zum 01.04.2025 die Stelle als 

Akademische*r Mitarbeiter*in
Kenn-Nummer 1350-24-02
(bis Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, Arbeitszeit 40 Stunden/Woche)

zu besetzen. Die Einstellung erfolgt zunächst befristet für drei Jahre (31.03.2028) und ist gegebenenfalls um weitere drei Jahre (31.03.2031) verlängerbar.

The project Christosemitism: Christian Anti-Antisemitism in Europe, 1945-2020 is offering two fully funded PhD fellowships at the Hebrew University Department of Comparative Religion for a period of up to five years, commencing between February and October 2025. 

Click here to read the Call for Applications.

The project Christosemitism: Christian Anti-Antisemitism in Europe, 1945-2020 is offering two postdoctoral fellowships for up to three years, commencing between February and October 2025.
The project is based at the Department of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Click here to read the Call for Applications.

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
University of Haifa

Call for Applications for the 
Sonja and Manfred Lahnstein Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Haifa
in 20th-Century German Studies for the 2025–2026 Academic Year

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society invites applications for the Manfred Lahnstein one-year post-doctoral fellowship (for a minimum of 10 months). The successful applicant will receive a fellowship in the amount of 90,000 NIS and office facilities for conducting research at the University of Haifa.

The Lahnstein Fellowship supports innovative research on 20th-century German history, culture, and society, including the latter’s evolving national boundaries, diasporas, and exiles. We are especially interested in original research that involves the Middle East. The fellowship is designed to cover a one-year research stay in Haifa.

The Lahnstein Fellows are required to:

1.    Register as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa (Faculty of Humanities)
2.    Reside in Haifa and use the Bucerius Institute as their main work site during the fellowship
3.    Participate in events organized by the Bucerius Institute during the fellowship year
4.    Deliver the annual Lahnstein Lecture at the Board of Governors Meeting (held in May/June) – The Lahnstein Lecture Series is a high-profile event at the University of Haifa
5.    Acknowledge the support of the ZEIT-Stiftung and the Bucerius Institute in any publication(s) related to the research conducted in the course of the Lahnstein Fellowship

Interested applicants must have been awarded their Ph.D. no earlier than October 2020, or have submitted their dissertation no later than November 1, 2024 (pending the awarding of their degree by October 2025).

Applicants should submit:

•  A one-page letter of application briefly describing their research experience, proposed project and interest in the Bucerius Institute
•  A research proposal (up to five pages)
•  A curriculum vitae
•  Two letters of recommendation (one of which must be from their Ph.D. adviser)
•  A letter of acceptance by a hosting scholar from the University of Haifa
•  An official doctoral diploma (or official confirmation of the submission of their dissertation)

All requested documents should be written in English.

Applications should be sent to Amir Bar-On (Administrative Coordinator) at ambaron@univ.haifa.ac.co.il

The deadline for submissions is December 2, 2024. Decisions will be announced by early March 2025.

The Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa is a vibrant research hub that attracts promising junior and senior scholars not only from Israel and Germany, but also from across Europe and North America. The institute was founded 20 years ago by a joint initiative of the German ZEIT-Stiftung and the University of Haifa. Since then, it has been promoting research on the contemporary history and social, cultural, and political reality of Germany, embracing a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodologies, and engaging with the complexity of contemporary German history in a global age.

Please visit our homepage for more information: https://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/

For the PDF version of the Call: click here.

Aus Mitteln der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung werden zum frühesten Beginn im Juni 2025 bis zu fünf Promotionsstipendien für die erste Förderphase des interdisziplinären Promotionskollegs „Gebrochene Traditionen? Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Musik im NS-Deutschland“ (PK 057) ausgeschrieben.

Ziel des Promotionskollegs ist es, aus philosophischer, literatur-, musik- und religionswissenschaftlicher Perspektive die Kenntnisse zum jüdischen kulturellen Leben in einem seit 1933 zunehmend separierten jüdischen Kulturkreis innerhalb NS-Deutschlands zu erweitern. Das Kolleg reiht sich damit ein in die internationalen Bemühungen der NS- und Holocaust-Forschung.

Das Kolleg wird seinen Sitz in Berlin am Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg haben und gemeinsam von den folgenden Forschungsinstitutionen getragen:

-       Axel Springer-Lehrstuhl für deutsch-jüdische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, Exil und Migration der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder,
-       Buber-Rosenzweig-Institut für Jüdische Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte der Moderne und der Gegenwart an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main,
-       Lehrstuhl für die Geschichte der jüdischen Musik an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar.

Informationen zur Ausschreibung finden Sie in der angehängten Datei sowie auf der Seite des Promotionskollegs: www.gebrochene-traditionen.de/.

CfA hier verfügbar.

2025-2026 Fellowship Call for Applications from the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania)

Contemporary Jewish life constitutes an ever-expanding cultural landscape, teeming with multiple possibilities for doing and being Jewish. Individuals, groups, and institutions are imagining and pushing forward new Jewish formations to create and inhabit previously uncharted territories. It is to these new frontiers of Jewish life that the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies devotes its fellowship program in 2025–26.

What does it mean to live, worship, and affiliate Jewishly in this diversified landscape? How is Jewishness expressed and contested across media and geographies of the contemporary moment? What can we learn about the present and future of Jewishness by looking at forms of community and creativity in marginal, interstitial, and expected spaces, including those in the frontier zones between the religious and the secular, the center and the periphery, the Jewish and the non-Jewish, or that exist in the virtual realms of the imagined and the digital? The Katz Center invites applications from scholars pursuing research projects animated by these and related questions.

The Center supports individual research projects while encouraging conversation and collaboration through seminars, conferences, and other forms of intellectual exchange. The fellowship is open to scholars from across the globe and at all career levels from newly minted Ph.D.s to senior scholars. The Katz Center welcomes proposals coming from any disciplinary perspective, including anthropology, sociology, history, education studies, ethics, religious studies, political science, digital humanities, and the study of Jewish literature, art, or film. The fellowship is also open to applications focused on the study of experiences and new realities in Israel and for Jews globally in light of October 7 and its aftermath.

Selected fellows are provided with a stipend and the time and resources needed to pursue their individual projects (including an office, computer, and library privileges at the University of Pennsylvania), and are expected to actively engage in the intellectual life of the fellowship community. All applicants must have a doctoral degree in hand by the start of the fellowship. Fellows are expected to live in Philadelphia for the term of their fellowship which can run for the entire academic year (September–April) or for a single semester.

More information is included in the Katz Center application.
Find answers to frequently asked questions here. For other inquiries please contact Marci Seder at sederm@upenn.edu.

The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania announces a new postdoctoral fellowship that will combine teaching, public scholarship, and research in the field of contemporary antisemitism studies.

Click here to learn more about this new fellowship opportunity.

The Department of Jewish History and Bible of the University of Haifa is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Wolfson Chair Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish Thought for the 2024-25 academic year. The Wolfson Fellowship is designated for outstanding students registering in the departmental doctoral program and is granted for a period of four years. The annual fellowship award is in the amount of 78,000 ILS. 

Preference will be given to students whose proposed research in the history of Jewish Thought is well-suited to the areas of expertise of the department faculty. Note that the department hosts world-renowned Digital Humanities projects that present ideal opportunities for Ph.D. research projects. 

To download the Call for Applications, click here.

Click here for further details.