Opportunities
On this page we collect current job offers and research grants that are sent to us by our network.
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Administrator (m/f/d) for the "Germany Close Up" program (Deadline: March 30, 2025)
Organizational unit: A01 - Capital City Office
Location: Berlin
TVöD pay grade: EG 9b (gross annual salary at 80% around € 37,059 - € 41,266)
Expected date of appointment: as soon as possible
Time limit: initially expected until 31.12.2025 (indirect parental leave replacement)
Working hours: 31.2 hours per week
Job code: A01EG9b-1b
Support for young researchers: Travel grants
The Fachverband Judaistik / Jüdische Studien / Jüdische Theologie in Deutschland e.V. supports MA students and doctoral candidates in their participation in conferences and workshops as well as research stays in Germany and abroad. Preference is given to MA students.
In addition, Master's students specializing in Judaic studies can also apply for financial support for Ulpan stays in Israel. (Deadline: March 31, 2025)
Part-time Director (m/f/d) for the Jewish Cultural Museum Veitshöchheim (Deadline: March 31, 2025)
Main tasks:
- Scientific, content-related and organizational management of the Jewish Cultural Museum
- Supervision of the collection in close cooperation with the Genisa Project Veitshöchheim
- Further development of the museum's content and program
- Scientific research and editing of publications and presentations
- Representing and actively advocating the museum and its offerings to the public
- Developing and implementing educational museum concepts, events, guided tours and other formats for various target groups
- Networking, exchange and joint activities with local committees, educational institutions as well as cultural and tourist facilities and relevant institutions
Call for applications for this year's Summer School 2025 on Resilience to Science Hostility (Deadline: March 31, 2025)
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science (BSOPE) and Scicomm-Support invite applications to a summer school on resilience against hostility through science communication in Berlin from 7-8 July 2025.
Summer School: Resilience against hostility through science communication
July 7th - 8th - HIIG - Französische Straße 9 - 10117 Berlin
Notification of acceptance/rejection: until April 21, 2025.
Call for Applications for this year's Summer School at the Center for Interreligious Theology and Religious Studies (HU Berlin) on the topic Religions in the Age of (Right-Wing) Populism. Interreligious Perspectives. (Deadline: 1 Aril 2025)
When: July 14-17, 2025
Where? Humboldt University of Berlin
Who? The Summer School is aimed at doctoral candidates, post-docs and advanced students from the theologies, religious studies and related subjects, as well as young professionals from the interreligious context.
13th EAIS Annual Conference on Israel Studies titled: "Navigating Dire Straits: Israeli Polity in the Times of Crises" hosted by the Moses Mendelssohn Center / University of Potsdam on September 14-16, 2025
The Call for Papers includes detailed information about the conference themes and submission guidelines. Welcome are paper and panel proposals. (Deadline for Submission of all proposals: April 14th, 2025)
IEG Fellowship in Digital Humanities
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz is awarding an eight-month scholarship for doctoral students or a six-month scholarship for postdocs (m/f/d) in the field of Digital Humanities. (Deadline: April 14, 2025)
Ten doctoral scholarships on German-Jewish history and culture are awarded as part of the Leo Baeck Fellowship Program
The international Leo Baeck Fellowship Program is aimed at doctoral candidates who are working on a dissertation in the field of German-Jewish history and culture. Projects from all eras, disciplines (e.g. literature, philosophy, history, cultural studies) and geographical areas (e.g. Europe, the Americas, Israel) are welcome. (Deadline: April 21, 2025)
The World Union of Jewish Studies informs about the Ulpan Scholarships Summer 2025
THE APPLICATION IS NOW OPEN! (Deadline: April 22, 2025)
Ulpan Scholarships for intensive Hebrew language programs in Israel (summer 2025) are available for BA, MA and PhD students, and early career scholars of Jewish Studies.
These scholarships have been funded through the generous support of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.
an immersive academic and cultural program dedicated to the rich heritage of Sephardic Jewish civilization. Hosted by the Institute for Jewish Studies Barcelona (EJB), this six-week summer program will take place from June 2 to July 11, 2025, in the heart of Barcelona's historic Jewish quarter and along the European Routes of Jewish Heritage in Catalonia. (Deadline: April 25, 2025)
For all
- Postgraduate students from all disciplines.
- Educators in formal or informal settings, cultural activists, and professionals.
- Applicants must have a good command of the English language.
- Those passionate about Jewish studies and Sephardic culture.
Announcements of the Polytechnic Society Foundation: Research into Jewish Life in Frankfurt am Main (Deadline: May 20, 2025)
The Rosl and Paul Arnsberg Prize is awarded for an outstanding completed academic work on the Jewish history of Frankfurt. It is endowed with €10,000.
The Arno Lustiger Award honors outstanding work/research projects at various qualification levels of the academic career or independent research projects and is endowed with € 3,000.
Young academics in particular are to be encouraged to actively take up and implement research projects on Frankfurt's Jewish history.
European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems, July 6 - 11, 2025 - On Jewish Universalism and Particularism
The 15th European Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems will - in its usual broad interdisciplinary perspective - explore the historical, political, religious and cultural dimensions of the paradigm of chosenness
and political, religious and cultural dimensions of the paradigm of chosenness. Jewish history and scriptural interpretation, philosophy and tradition, literature and art are full of bitter disputes about universalism and tribalism - and ultimately also about the question of whether laws exist
the question of whether there are laws and human rights to which even divine authority must adhere.
The Summer University for Jewish Studies Hohenems 2025 is open to students from all disciplines.
Preference will be given to students from the participating universities in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Innsbruck, Munich, Vienna and Zurich.
(Deadline: May 31, 2025)
Call for applications: Marko Feingold Prize for a dissertation in the field of Jewish Studies
The Marko Feingold Prize is aimed at young academics from all disciplines of Jewish Studies, i.e. historians, literary or art scholars, philosophers, linguists, religious scholars, Judaists and others. The prize-worthy dissertation should deal with a topic of Jewish history, culture or religion from a cultural or social science perspective, independent of epoch. (Deadline: June 1, 2025)
Thyssen reading time
Six months of support based on the no gain, no loss funding model for researchers in the humanities and social sciences, especially those with particularly strong administrative responsibilities at German universities (such as rectors or presidents, professors, deans, heads of clusters of excellence). (Deadline: July 31, 2025)