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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The Israelitische Gemeinde Basel (IGB) is looking for
Head and teacher of religious education (50-100%)
The Israelitische Gemeinde Basel (IGB) is a unified congregation with a rich tradition and a wide range of activities for its members. The IGB offers religious education to all children of community members from kindergarten age. In addition to the basic offer for primary school/primary level, in-depth courses are also available for older pupils.
From the 2026/27 school year, due to the retirement of the previous position holder, she is looking for a person who can teach and develop Jewish content in a competent, accessible and inspiring way.
Naomi Prawer Kadar Yiddish Summer Program
The Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer Program will take place from July 5 to 30, 2026 on the campus of Tel Aviv University. The program offers four face-to-face courses in Yiddish at different levels (beginner, intermediate I & II, advanced). The courses are creditable, the placement is done by specialized teachers. Scholarships and housing subsidies are available for qualified students from abroad. The program is one of the largest and most diverse Yiddish courses in the world and is led by experienced teachers.
Further information can be found on the website en-humanities.tau.ac.il/naomiyiddish.
If you are interested, please discusswith the Examinations Office which courses can be credited and how.
Research Volunteer (m/f/d) in the field of Jewish history and culture at MiQua. LVR Jewish Museum in the Archaeological Quarter Cologne
Become part of the MiQua. LVR-Jüdisches Museum im Archäologischen Quartier Köln and work together with a dedicated team to shape the scientific examination of Jewish history and culture. (Application deadline: March 15, 2026)
CfP: Artificial intelligence & the future of small subjects
19.-November 20, 2026, Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz (Deadline: March 15, 2026)
The rapid spread and low-threshold use of artificial intelligence (AI) is permanently changing research practice at universities and scientific institutions. The automated processing of large amounts of data and their linking and analysis in the shortest possible time is challenging established research methods in many disciplines. While these developments are already the subject of intense debate in data-intensive disciplines, the consequences for smaller disciplines remain unclear: What role will AI play in the future development of small subjects at German universities? What professional, structural and research policy opportunities and challenges are associated with the increasing use of AI for small subjects? How can small disciplines use AI strategically to further develop and strengthen their research?
Call for Papers (Deadline March 25, 2026)
VI Krakow Jewish Studies Conference: Boundaries
20-21 May 2026 Krakow
Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University
This conference seeks to explore boundaries not only as lines of division or exclusion, but also as zones of contact, exchange, tension, and transformation. We especially welcome contributions that address processes of boundary-making, boundary-crossing and liminality in Jewish contexts across time and space.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Geographic boundaries, borders, and mobility (migration, exile, diaspora)
- Transnational connections and networks: Jewish communities across borders, diasporic interactions, and global entanglements
- Social boundaries: class, gender, sexuality, generation, and power
- Religious and legal boundaries within Judaism and between religions
- Linguistic boundaries: multilingualism, translation, and language contact
- Cultural boundaries and cultural transfer
- Jewish-non-Jewish interactions and shared spaces
- Boundaries of identity, belonging, and otherness
- Transgression, conversion and boundary-crossing
- Spatial boundaries: sacred/profane, public/private, urban/rural
The Schocken Institute for Jewish Research of the JTS
Call for Papers: Research Conference
The "Feminine" and the Holy (Deadline: March 31, 2026)
the conference 'The "Feminine" and the Holy' seeks to create an academic platform to examine the encounter between the categories of "femininity" and "holiness" within the field of Jewish Studies. This intersection will be explored across various contexts, including canonical texts, traditional and contemporary liturgy, visual arts, historical research, cinema, and more. We refer to "femininity" in terms of symbolic representations, archetypal figures, traits, behavioral patterns, as well as physicality and sexuality. These will be examined in their encounter with "holiness" understood as the exalted, mysterious, sublime, or the "other."
The conference will take place on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research JTS, 6 Balfour St., Jerusalem.
The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary, German History and Society, University of Haifa
Call for Applications for the Manfred Lahnstein Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Haifa in 20th-Century German Studies for the 2026-2027 Academic Year (Deadline: March 31, 2026)
The Lahnstein Fellowship supports innovative research on 20th-century German history, culture, and society, including the latter's evolving national boundaries, diasporas, and exiles. The Institute is especially interested in original research that involves the Middle East. The fellowship is designed to cover a one-year research stay in Haifa.
CFP: From Sea to Memory: The Sinking of the Tanaïs and Holocaust Remembrance (Deadline: March 31, 2026)
The Evlagon Institute for Cretan Jewish Studies will host a conference in Chania, Crete, on Holocaust research and remembrance associated with the sinking of the Tanaïs ship, approached from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
This conference aims to move beyond traditional, nation-centric approaches to Holocaust memory, and to highlight the intersections of historical research, archival exploration, and cultural memory, with ethnographic awareness. Participants are encouraged to engage critically with existing frameworks, propose new interpretive lenses, and contribute original research that deepens understanding of the Tanaïs and its legacies.
Advanced Summer School for Graduate Students in Jewish Studies: Jewish Studies "On Edge" (Deadline: April 1, 2026)
"On edge" captures both anxiety and possibility-fitting for Jewish studies today, as scholars face threats to academic freedom, polarized politics, and the impact of AI, even while the field continues to innovate. This year's summer school invites graduate students to explore Jewish studies "at the edge," examining Jewish life in times of crisis and discovering new methods at the field's forefront.Hosted by the University of Antwerp with partners in Jerusalem and Pennsylvania, the program fosters global exchange, interdisciplinary learning, and reflection on academia as a vocation.
Between assimilation and dissimilation. Jewish voices in the German language after 1945.
LMU Munich: September 04-05, 2026
Call for Papers (Deadline: May 15, 2026)
In Jewish history and the present, the German-speaking diaspora is a phenomenon of a special kind. At the end of the 18th century, the reform movement of the Jewish Enlightenment and thus the alignment with the European bourgeoisie took place in Prussia, among other places. In the Habsburg crown lands, a Jewish homeland literature developed in the course of emancipation from the middle of the 19th century. The fact that the annihilation of European Jewry emanated from Germany and Austria in the 20th century as the flourishing countries of acculturation seems to have contaminated the concept of assimilation beyond repair. In remembrance of this caesura, the conference Zwischen Assimilation und Dissimilation (Between Assimilation and Dissimilation) seeks to examine how Jewish voices in German have negotiated their fundamentally ambivalent relationship to their eminently uncanny homeland from 1945 to the present day.