Opportunities
On this page we collect current job offers, tenders and research grants that are sent to us by our network.
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International University Internship in Jerusalem
Hanns Seidel Foundation
100% position, 40 hours per week; Location: Jerusalem (with business trips); Duration: 2-3 months
Job description:
- Assist in the preparation of delegation and visit programs.
- Assistance in writing reports and applications for projects.
- Co-supervision of various communication channels.
- Assisting in the planning, organization, implementation and follow-up of project activities.
- Supporting the financial administration.
- Written translations German-English/Hebrew/Arabic.
- Other office communication and administrative tasks.
Assistant for the “Buber Correspondences Digital” Project
The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz is seeking a student or research assistant (m/f/d) for the editorial project “Buber Correspondence Digital. The Dialogical Principle in Martin Buber’s Networks of Scholars and Intellectuals in the 20th Century” at its locations in Mainz and Frankfurt am Main, with the option to work remotely.
Earliest possible start date: November 1, 2026
The National Library of Israel's Scriptorium Fellowship for Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Students
Call for Applications: Deadline, September 1, 2026
The program, established and led by Prof. Vered Noam, is intended for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers residing in Israel during the 2026–2027 academic year. Scriptorium brings together emerging scholars from abroad who are conducting research in Israel, forming a vibrant and inquisitive academic community.
Scriptorium participants also receive:
· Official affiliation with the National Library of Israel
· A number of benefits reserved for researchers, including access to the researchers-only area in the NLI’s Ilona and Hugo Lowy Reading Halls
· The opportunity to work in close proximity to the NLI’s unparalleled collections
· Personal consultations with library staff (curators and librarians)
· Regular seminars for presenting and discussing research
· A one-time grant of $2,000
Candidates must be physically present in Israel for at least one of the two semesters during the 2026–27 academic year. Their research must relate to the NLI’s five core collections (Judaica, Israel, Islam and the Middle East, music, and the general humanities).
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Call for Applications for the 2027–2028 Academic Year
(Deadline: September 3, 2026)
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows aims to foster interdisciplinary academic discourse at the highest level among outstanding young scholars (postdoctoral). Candidates who have completed their PhD at an Israeli or German university, as well as citizens of Israel or Germany who have received their PhD in any country, are eligible to apply. Applicants must have received their PhD no earlier than October 1, 2022, and no later than July 1, 2027.1 Applications are open to those specializing in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.2 We are looking for creative humanists and social scientists with broad intellectual horizons. No connection between the subject matter and Jewish studies or Israel is required.
More information here
From Baghdad to the Wider World – Jewish Modernities and Nineteenth-Century Networks through Ha-Dover / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Sde Boqer Campus) · Tel Aviv University
February 23–25, 2027
Call for Papers (Deadline: September 14, 2026)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Sde Boqer Campus) · Tel Aviv University, February 23–25, 2027
Taking Ha-Dover as its point of departure rather than its sole subject, the conference uses this unique print record to explore a much broader set of questions: It serves as a platform for comparative analysis across Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa and across broader nineteenth-century histories of print, mobility, diaspora networks, and modernity. We particularly welcome papers that explore how newspapers shaped new forms of collective imagination and public authority, and how local presses mapped geographies and connections across overlapping regional and imperial spaces (e.g., Persia, India, Ottoman provincial circuits, and oceanic corridors). We also invite work on how debates over language, governance, education, gender, philanthropy, and everyday moral economies unfolded within these emerging publics.
Intimacies: Family and Sexuality in the History of Jewish Literature and Culture in Eastern and Central Europe (1900–1945)
Date: January 20–22, 2027
Venue: University of Augsburg
Call for Papers (Deadline: September 30)
The conference “Intimacies: Family and Sexuality in Jewish Cultural and Literary History of Eastern and Central Europe (1900–1945) explores how intimacy was regulated, religiously standardized, socially practiced, literarily negotiated, and culturally interpreted in European-Jewish contexts. In this context, the family is not viewed as a given unit, but rather as a network of relationships and a social category (see Bourdieu 1996), within which kinship and belonging are negotiated alongside desire, care, obligation, conflict, and social norms.
Short-Term Research Fellowship “Romani Rose Fellowship”
offered by the Research Center on Antiziganism at the Department of History, Heidelberg University. The fellowship is funded by the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation and begins on January 1 or May 1, 2027. (Application deadline: September 30, 2026)
The fellowship is intended to support dedicated researchers (doctoral candidates and postdocs) from European Union member states who are conducting research on a topic related to antiziganism or a related field (e.g., racism or minority studies).
Call for Papers — European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) Volume 2, Issue 1 (2026)
(Deadline: September 30, 2026)
The European Hebrew Journal (EHJ) invites original scholarly submissions for its inaugural issue and welcomes contributions from university faculty, researchers, independent scholars, and doctoral candidates worldwide.
EHJ is an international peer-reviewed open access journal, published by the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, dedicated to rigorous interdisciplinary research in Hebrew studies, Jewish studies, philology, manuscript traditions, Semitic linguistics, theology, and related humanities disciplines.
Call for Papers: XXII LAJSA International Research Conference – Quito 2027
Deadline for proposal submissions: October 1, 2026
The Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) invites you to participate in its 22nd International Research Conference, to be held in person on July 7–9, 2027, at the UTE University in Quito, Ecuador.
Every two years, LAJSA holds its International Research Conference to bring together scholars from various disciplines and geographic regions whose work focuses on the lives, languages, experiences, cultural production, and representations of and by Jews in and from Latin America and the Caribbean. Our conferences provide a stimulating and collegial environment for presenting research and building lasting transnational networks among participants. Graduate students working on topics related to Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean are especially encouraged to apply.
Brandeis University - Schusterman Center for Israel Studies: Applications for the 2027 Summer Institute for Israel Studies
(Deadline: October 1, 2026)
The Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS) is a one-of-a-kind program dedicated to expanding Israel studies on a global scale. Since 2004, we have trained 411 professors at 287 institutions in 36 countries across six continents to teach Israel Studies within their respective disciplines. Summer Institute alumni have taught 2,100 courses on Israel to more than 36,000 students worldwide.
Jewish Studies in Challenging Times: Junior Scholars and the Development of the Field
Call for Papers, Deadline: October 1, 2026
Venue: University of Wrocław, Tadeusz Taube Department of Jewish Studies (Wrocław, Poland)
Date: September 13–15, 2027
Conference language: English
Who Should Apply: The conference is explicitly aimed at junior scholars—advanced M.A. students, Ph.D. candidates, and early-career postdocs in Jewish Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, and related fields (history, religious studies, various philologies, literary and cultural studies, philosophy, social sciences, Digital Humanities, and museum and memorial-site studies). We particularly welcome contributions from scholars whose research is directly or indirectly shaped by the challenges and prospects of the field. Applicants need not be affiliated with a dedicated Jewish Studies department or program; those working on Jewish topics within larger or related programs are equally encouraged to apply.
Opportunities for Early-Career Researchers: Research in the U.S. with Fulbright
(Deadline: October 7, 2026)
High-achieving and dedicated doctoral candidates and recent PhD graduates from all disciplines who wish to undertake an academic stay abroad in the U.S. beginning August 1, 2027, can apply to Fulbright Germany.
Further information:
- Scholarship Program for Doctoral Students
- “Research & Teaching” Fellowship Program for Postdoctoral Researchers
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz - IEG Fellowships for Postdocs
(Application deadline: October 15, 2026)
Start: April 2027 or later
Duration: 6–12 months
Fellowship Amount: 2 ,100 euros plus family allowance, if applicable
Scope/Location: Full-time residence and presence in Mainz (special arrangements, subject to negotiation, are possible for fellows with children)
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) awards fellowships to postdocs conducting research in European history, the history of religion, and other historical disciplines (including the Digital Humanities).
The IEG funds research projects on European history from the early modern period to the present. We are particularly interested in projects
- that take a comparative or cross-border approach,
- on European history, including its relationship to the wider world,
- on topics in intellectual and religious history,
- that use digital tools and methods, or
- on environmental history.
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Call for Applications
2027–2028 Fellowship Program
Between Mind and World in Premodern Jewish Life
Deadline: October 27, 2026
The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for its 2027–28 international fellowship program, a year dedicated to exploring the connection between mind and world in premodern Jewish life.
Humanistic inquiry has long been driven by a desire to situate texts and ideas within the social, political, and material contexts in which they developed. The study of premodern Jews has likewise been driven by this desire—always seeking new ways to navigate the space between the conceptual and the concrete—to better understand texts and ideas as both responses to and shaping forces within a world of social interaction and conflict, materiality and spatiality, and the contingencies of lived experience.
The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies seeks to use its 2027–28 fellowship year to support this aspiration to connect premodern Jewish thought and expression to the extra-textual realms of the material and the social, and is inviting relevant applications from scholars working in any field of premodern Jewish history and culture as these developed throughout the world between the Hellenistic period and the end of the European Middle Ages in the sixteenth century.
Rutgers Rabbinics Conference, Spring 2027
Call for Papers, Deadline: December 1, 2026
Date: April 4, 2027 – April 5, 2027
Location: New Jersey, United States
Subject Fields: Ancient History, Jewish History/Studies, Religious Studies, and Theology
Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize of the University City of Giessen
(Application deadline: December 31, 2026)
In memory of Wilhelm Liebknecht, the Giessen-born member of the Reichstag and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the University City of Giessen awards the “Wilhelm Liebknecht Prize.” The prize is awarded for outstanding publications in history and the social sciences that address the social foundations for building and safeguarding democratic communities.
Research Program of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (Academies Program) for 2029
(Deadline: January 31, 2027)
The Academies Program is the joint research program of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. It supports long-term basic research in the ice sciences and in the historical social sciences, including law, economics, and the social sciences. Research questions and materials at the intersection of these fields and the natural sciences may also be addressed within the framework of the Academies Program. The central task of the Academies Program is to document, preserve, and study cultural traditions of outstanding scientific and societal relevance.