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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 16h

Talk by Dr Yael Almog (Durham) at the English Goethe Society on "In the Shadow of Romanticism: Mendelssohn, Herder, and the Jewish Political Imagination." Thursday 30 April but you can book already. @lbilondon.bsky.social

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In the Shadow of Romanticism: Mendelssohn, Herder, and the Jewish Political Imagination

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 1d

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
#jewishstudies
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Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University

Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 21h

Research Associate
German Historical Institute London #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW562/r...

Research Associate at German Historical Institute London

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 3d

Smith College - Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies (Jews of the Islamic World):

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Smith College - Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies (Jews of the Islamic World) | MEMOs

Assistant Professor, Smith College (USA)

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 3d

Cambridge University, Assistant Professor in Medieval German Studies:

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Cambridge University, Assistant Professor in Medieval German Studies | MEMOs

Medieval German Studies, Cambridge University (UK)

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 3d

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · 13d

We have a date! This year's Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections will be on December 1. "Beyond the Text: Reading Jewish History Between the Words" with Prof. Edward Fram, Prof Elisheva Carlebach, and Dr. Eugene Matanky. Register here! 📚📜
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

This year's annual NEA Celebration of Collections has an early modern focus, where three scholars will discuss their research on what we find in books when we look beyond the actual texts - at annotat...

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 6d

UNISON statement on the Manchester synagogue attack: "Jewish people should not have to live in fear in the UK. We all have a role to play in stamping out antisemitism." www.unison.org.uk/news/article...

Statement on the Manchester synagogue attack | Article | News | UNISON National

UNISON is horrified at the terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue yesterday, which left two people dead and many more injured.

www.unison.org.uk

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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 11d

Jewish studies postdoctoral fellowship at @universityofleeds.bsky.social on post-Holocaust material and visual cultures! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 10d

Check out this amazing upcoming conference on Maritime Connections: Jews Across the Indian Ocean at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi NCR, India
16-18.2.2026

Submission deadline: 31.10.2025. Call for papers
mrtmsummit.com/call-for-pap...

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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 9d

The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize ($3,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish studies.

Deadline: January 31, 2026. The winner will be notified in late spring 2026.

Baron Book Prize – AAJR

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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 9d

Yeshiva College and the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University invite applications for the position of tenure-track Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, with an anticipated start date of August 2nd, 2026.

Yeshiva University | Details - Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies

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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 8d

#Chance | Full-time doctoral scholarship for a PhD thesis on "Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation" | University of Antwerp | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#workingclass #emancipation #phd #scholarship

Deadline for applications: October 13, 2025

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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 10d

@jewishstudies.bsky.social and @biajs.bsky.social members might be interested in some of the Jewish studies titles on the list.

V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 15d

It's that time of year when I do my periodic update of books available for review in Literature & Theology. Instructions on how to request a book are found via the link in the very top row. This is LAST CALL for books published in 2023.

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Literature & Theology Books for Review Public

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 10d

Amazing postdoc opportunity at @lahri.bsky.social Leeds, on post-Holocaust visualities/materialities

Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Closing day 6 October

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Cc @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 17d

#Chancen | Zwei wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen für das Projekt „Erforschung von Objekten vermeintlich jüdischer Herkunft in der Fläche von Sachsen-Anhalt – die Tiefenprüfung nach dem Erstcheck“ gesucht | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. Oktober 2025

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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 17d

#OnlineResource | The Katz Center announces the forthcoming open access publication of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Beginning with the winter 2026 issue, 136 years of the journal will be free to readers online.

Details: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

A Gift from JQR and the Katz Center

A century and a third of Jewish scholarship goes open access

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EHRI @ehri-project.eu · 17d

Call for Papers | Lessons and Legacies 2026!
HEFNU @hefnu.bsky.social at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities
Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust XVIII
Chicago, 12-15 November 2026
Deadline 15 December 2025
hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 17d

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern.

Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

Tenured Associate/Full Professor in History, Deinard Chair in Early Modern/Modern Jewish History in Minneapolis, MN for University of Minnesota

Exciting opportunity in Minneapolis, MN for University of Minnesota as a Tenured Associate/Full P...

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Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte & Kultur - Simon Dubnow @dubnow.bsky.social · 17d

International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry
Warsaw, June 22 to 25, 2026

We welcome applications from scholars working in all fields of the humanities and social sciences related to East European Jewry.

Application deadline: 31 January 2026
www.dubnow.de/ausschreibun...

SharePic in Orange, Grün und Grau und weißer Schrift, Text auf Englisch: "Call for Proposal: International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry. Warsaw, June 22 to 25, 2026; Application deadline: 31 January 2026"

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In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social · 20d

In geveb will return to publishing after the High Holidays 🦚 We can’t wait to share another year of incredible essays, translations, research, and resources with you!

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 23d

Last week we welcomed expert translator Carolin Sommer for an online workshop to help you decode Sütterlin German script

Catch up via our YouTube channel now:

Decoding Sütterlin: Reading Handwritten Holocaust Documents Workshop

Handwritten documents from the Holocaust, whether in the form of diaries, personal letters or official forms, sometimes seem to have been written in an unreadable scrawl. Often, the reason they…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20d

The research collaboration symposium will take place between 10-12 June, 2026 in Bonn, Germany.

Deadline 29 October 2025.

The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 21d

The British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are inviting applications from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of Truth, Justice and Peace in Germany. https://bit.ly/4nyWsmv

Graphic that reads ‘The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium, with the date 10-12 June’

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20d

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button.

See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

Alan Rudy @aprudy.bsky.social · 21d

Click on the link to the ToC text, go to your Account - top right (as In sure you know), scroll down and delete away

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