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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Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Assistant for office communication (m/f/d) part-time (50 %)
Your tasks include:
- Supporting the management and in particular the head of the "Science and Digital Infrastructure" department in administrative and organizational tasks concerning the academy program
- careful prioritization, processing and forwarding of documents, emails and other information
- Preparation of reports, documents and minutes
- Support in the preparation and follow-up of evaluations of the research projects of the Academies' Program
- Support in the organization of meetings, conferences and in-house events
- Communication and correspondence with internal and external partners
- Management and maintenance of confidential documents and data
- We reserve the right to assign further/other tasks.
Further information can be found here
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.
The Wandering Jew and other myths - a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice
(Call for Papers, Deadline: May 13, 2026)
Anoushka Alexander-Rose and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara will guest edit a special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice on the Wandering Jew and other myths, to be published in 2027, and call for submissions that speak about legends and mythic figures exclusively through the lens of reclamation in response to racial, national, ethnic or religious exclusion.
This special issue invites contributions from across the disciplines of arts, humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to: literature, history, art, music, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, linguistics, migration studies.
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.
Science Communication Forum 2026
Call for Proposals (Deadline: May 16, 2026)
The Science Communication Forum 2026 will take place on December 9 and 10 in Leipzig. Main topic: Approaching each other: Social cohesion in times of crisis
Submissions on the following topics are welcome:
1. Role, responsibility and limits
2. Diversity, participation and justice
3. Reach, impact and new alliances
Submissions on the following aspects are also possible:
- Generative AI models: potentials, risks and necessary skills for science communication
- Trust: Emergence conditions for sustainable trust in scientific processes and institutions
- Resilience and protection: Dealing with attacks, polarization and social pressure
Independent of the focus, contributions are possible on
- current trends in science communication
- innovative formats and venues for science communication
- new findings, e.g. from evaluations or research projects on science communication
Small Research Grant program 2025-26 (second round)
Call for Applications (Deadline: 28 May 2026)
The European Association for Jewish Studies is delighted to announce the second round of the EAJS Small Research Grant Programme (SRGP) for 2025-26. Funded by its core funder, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe, the programme offers support to Full and Student members for their individual research.
EAJS Nahmanides Forum & Travel Bursaries
'7 October 2023 and its aftermath, and European Jewish Studies'
CEU, Vienna, June 3, 2026, 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
(Deadline for Applications: 28 May 2026)
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) invites members of the EAJS and participants of the CEU conference 'Jewish Studies at the Crossroads' to join a Nahmanides-Forum on the impact of the events of and after 7 October 2023 on Jewish Studies. A limited number of travel bursaries are available for EAJS members from countries with lower than median income.
The conference on 'Jewish Studies at the Crossroads' hosted by the CEU probes the current academic contexts for academic Jewish Studies. The workshop immediately follows this conference, and offers an opportunity to exchange views, encounters and perceptions of scholars actively involved in academic Jewish Studies across Europe. Previous similar exchanges were organized on a national level (in France: EHESS, February 2024; in Germany, hosted by the Fachverband Judaistik/Jüdische Studien/Jüdische Theologie, January 2026), with this Nahmanides-Forum offering a framework to discuss with colleagues from a wider geographical background.
The workshop is open to registered participants of the CEU 'Jewish Studies at the Crossroads' conference, and to members of the European Association for Jewish Studies.
A limited number of travel bursaries of £250 GBP each are available for EAJS members, with applications from countries with lower than median income taking precedence.
To apply for a travel bursary or to apply to attend the forum, please use the online application form.
For other inquiries about this event, please contact the EAJS administration
The Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellowship 2026-2027: Situating Israel in the Middle East
Call for Proposals (Deadline: May 31, 2026)
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University is pleased to announce the theme for the 2026-2027 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies: Situating Israel in the Middle East.
Max Nordau described a future Jewish state in Palestine as "a piece of Europe in Asia." The cultural Eurocentrism of many early Zionist thinkers long influenced Israel's self-perception as well as the assumptions of and interests of much Israel Studies scholarship. The 2026-27 fellowship seeks to move beyond the paradigm of Israel as a Western exclave, an approach which both isolates Jewish-Israeli history from Middle Eastern history and perpetuates the separation between Israel Studies and Middle East Studies. Instead, it aims to analyze Israel in a Middle Eastern context, whether through the prism of comparison, reciprocity and interdependency, entanglement, or transcultural exchange between Jews and Arabs or Israelis and Palestinians.
idealo Scholarship 2026
(Application deadline: June 15, 2026)
The most important information at a glance:
- Program: 1 full scholarship with a total value of 9,000 euros
- Funding: 750 euros for 12 months to support your studies
- Target group: Students of all degree programs and semesters
- Prerequisite: at least one exceptional talent
- Application and information: https://www.idealo.de/unternehmen/stipendium
Non-profit Hertie Foundation
Silvia Tennenbaum Scholarship Writer-in-Residence Program
(Deadline: June 30, 2026)
The Silvia Tennenbaum Fellowship is aimed at authors, critics and artists whose practice is based on writing and who deal with the topics of anti-Semitism, remembrance culture and democracy. European applications are welcome and a very good knowledge of German is required.
As part of the program, the scholarship holders implement a concrete project. This can be a publication, an exhibition or a film script. They also take part in internal and external events organized by the Hertie Foundation and participate in exchange formats with Frankfurt-based initiatives and organizations in the field.
During the six-month fellowship, the fellows spend three months in Frankfurt. The periods of the stay can be chosen flexibly.
The scholarship holders receive a monthly allowance of 2,000 euros for six months and a rent subsidy of 2,500 euros for three months in Frankfurt.
The scholarship is awarded once a year.
Petra Ernst-Kühr Prize for the best Master's thesis in the field of European-Jewish literary studies
(submission deadline: July 1, 2026)
SOCIETY FOR EUROPEAN-JEWISH LITERARY STUDIES E.V.
In memory of its long-standing board member Petra Ernst-Kühr (1957-2016), the Society for European-Jewish Literary Studies is awarding a prize for the best Master's thesis in the field of European-Jewish literary studies submitted in English or German within the two years 2024 and 2025. The prize money for the selected thesis is EUR 2000, donated by Prof. Gerd Kühr.
All participants in the competition will be informed of the title and author of the prize-winning work after the selection process has been completed.
Only the authors of the works are entitled to submit them. The theses, together with a confirmation of the Master's degree obtained, must be submitted by e-mail as a PDF document to info(at)association-ejls.eu.
ThyssenLesezeit funding program (Deadline: 31.07.2026)
Due to the digital revolution, the amount of relevant information is multiplying exponentially and is hardly manageable even for well-organized scientists. On the other hand, there is constantly less time available at German universities to take a thorough look at information. As a result, there is often no time to carefully read what is desired and/or simply necessary. Accordingly, instead of "close reading", academics are now expected to engage in "distant reading", in which the masses of text are no longer to be mastered by reading, but by digital information processing.
ThyssenLesezeit supports academics who, for example, have returned to teaching and research after a rectorship, deanship or the management of a large research project or network.
-research project or network, and at the same time promotes young academics.