Touro University - Associate or Full Professor of Jewish Studies

The Touro University Graduate School of Jewish Studies is seeking candidates for a full-time Associate or Full Professor of Jewish Studies with a specialization in the Holocaust and in Eastern European Jewish History. Ideal candidates will already have made a significant contribution to the field, as evidenced by publications and lectures at academic conferences, and demonstrate promise of an ongoing and very active research program. Candidates will also possess excellent teaching skills, and the ability to mentor doctoral level research and doctoral dissertations.  

Faculty carry a 12 credit workload per ten-month long academic year, and are expected to teach, advise students, and engage in scholarship. Course load may be adjusted according to responsibility of faculty for directing dissertations of theses. Faculty are also expected to actively contribute to Graduate School programs, and to actively participate in school and university-wide committees. Through their scholarship and collegial networks faculty are expected to enhance the national and international reputation of the Graduate School of Jewish Studies. 

The mission of the Graduate School of Jewish Studies is to educate the next generation of scholars and educators in the field of Jewish studies and to train knowledgeable and highly skilled Jewish communal professionals. The School offers masters-level degrees with concentrations in Jewish history and Jewish education; the Ph.D. degree in Jewish history; and a joint Advanced Certificate in the management of non-profit institutions with Touro University Graduate School of Business. All courses are taught either hybrid or exclusively via Zoom, so students in the program hail from around the world. 

Full information on the position can be found at this link: https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69679/touro-university-associate-or-full-professor-jewish-studies

CfA: USHMM Faculty Seminar: Resistance to the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, and Beyond (Deadline March 15, 2026)

DC
United States

The 2026 Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar explores resistance acts during the Holocaust with a focus on protest, hiding, and rescue. Together, we will examine the different forms of Jews’ resistance to Nazi antisemitic policies, as well as assistance that Jews and non-Jews (or “mixed” categories) provided to Jews, who found hiding places, lived under false identities, and escaped the Nazis during the Holocaust. In addition to discussing individual acts of resistance, we will investigate the ways in which Jewish and non-Jewish men and women were associated with or participated in resistance groups and networks. With the goal of teaching this content, we will consider why Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still often perceived as a rare occurrence, and how gender stereotypes led to a restricted or distorted view of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance. We will also examine the following topics:

• varieties of Jewish resistance, including hiding, passing, and escaping, etc.
• comparative research of rescue across Europe during the Holocaust
• the contexts and methods of Jews' and non-Jews' resistance
• the consequences and moral implications of rescue actions
• Jewish and non-Jewish forms of cooperation
• the politics of commemorating resisters and rescuers, etc.

The 2026 Silberman Seminar helps faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component related to the Holocaust. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines, including but not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, Human Rights, Migration Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Refugee Studies, Sociology, and Trauma and Memory Studies. The seminar aims to deepen, broaden, and enrich how we teach the Holocaust by drawing on a range of perspectives and disciplinary approaches to address different forms of Jews’ resistance to the Holocaust.

The deadline for applications is Sunday, March 15, 2026. This seminar will take place June 1–10, 2026 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Seminar applicants must be teaching or anticipate teaching relevant courses at accredited institutions in North America. The full CfA and the application form are available here on the USHMM website. Please contact Campus Outreach Programs (campusoutreachprograms@ushmm.org) with any questions. 

The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman Seminar for University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else Silberman. The Foundation supports programs in higher education that promote, protect, and strengthen Jewish values in democracy, human rights, ethical leadership, and cultural pluralism.

Contact Email

campusoutreach@ushmm.org

URL

https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/faculty-seminars/sil…

CfP Conference Jewish Languages and Politics. Ideological Choices of Jews in the Modern Era at the POLIN Museum

Aleksandra Jakubczak

Poland

International Conference: Jewish Languages and Politics. Ideological Choices of Jews in the Modern Era

1-3 June 2026 Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw, Poland)

In the modern period, political, social, and religious tensions arose in Jewish communities, for example, between different religious currents and between Zionists and proponents of Jewish life in the Diaspora. At the heart of these different attitudes and identity decisions among Jews have always been languages. Linguistic choices influenced how traditions were preserved or developed, how liberal and conservative currents of Judaism emerged, as well as how the Jewish state took its form. Finally, language ideologies played an important role in Jewish self-expression and self-understanding. 

The question of language – its significance, influence across various spheres of Jewish life – is crucial for understanding modern Jewish history, particularly with regard to socio-political processes in the diaspora. The conference aims to showcase and interrogate the latest research findings and promote a broader, international discussion on Jewish languages and languages used by Jews globally from the 18th to the end of the 20th century, especially in the context of:

• Language and the formation of Jewish identity.
• The language of politics, especially in the context of the formation of new Jewish political and ideological movements.
• The importance of the Hebrew language for the development of Zionist thought.
• The place of Yiddish in diasporic life and in the development of Zionist ideology.
• Esperanto as a product of Jewish linguistic polyphony.
• The mutual influence between Jewish languages and the non-Jewish environment.
• Jewish linguistic ideologies and the Jewish-language press as a medium of communication.
• The interrelation between Jewish religious history and the shifting role of Hebrew as a sacred language.
• The rise and decline of traditional Jewish languages, such as Ladino, Judeo-Italian, Jewish Malayalam, and Judeo-Arabic.
• The emergence of new Jewish sociolects, for example, Jewish English and Jewish Swedish.

We invite submissions for this conference from researchers in the field of Jewish studies, working across diverse disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, literature, linguistics, and related fields, ranging from PhD students to advanced scholars.

More details and the application form can be found here: International conference "Jewish Languages and Politics. Ideological Choices of Jews in the Modern Era" | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie

The conference accompanies POLIN Museum's temporary exhibition: "The Power of Words. On Jewish Languages."

The organizers will provide meals and accommodation during the conference. Speakers may apply for partial reimbursement of travel expenses if no other funding is available. Preference for funding will be given to early-career and independent researchers. The organizers reserve the right to record and publish conference proceedings.

Contact Email

geopconference@polin.pl

URL

https://polin.pl/en/event/international-conference-jewish-languages-and-politic…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for Habsburg: 17 August - 24 August [Announcement]

H-Net Job Guide

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 17 August to 24 August. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.

Jewish History / Studies

Jewish History / Studies

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis - Tenured Associate/Full Professor in History, Deinard Chair in Early Modern/Modern Jewish History
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68974/university-minnesota-minneapolis-tenured-associatefull-professor-history-deinard-chair

University of Toronto - Associate Professor/Professor - History of the Holocaust
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68990/university-toronto-associate-professorprofessor-history-holocaust

Contact Information

Call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

Contact Email

jobguide@mail.h-net.org

URL

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/

Job: Contractor Content Team, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Deadline: ASAP

The Applied Research Division (ARD) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies will embark upon a new two-year pilot in 2023. The "Refresh" of the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos will involve updating select content of Vol. 2 of the Encyclopedia series and migrating Encyclopedia content to an online platform to enhance the accessibility and functionality of the series going forward.

We are looking to hire a contractor content team consisting of:
- one content manager (funding for two years at $70,000 per year; full time)
- four researchers (funding for two years at $45,000 per person per year; full time)
- one literature reviewer (funding for three months at $2,000 per month; part time )

We are seeking to hire the content manager and literature reviewer as soon as possible. For detailed descriptions of the available positions and all application questions, please write to Dr. Alexandra Lohse, who is directing the project, at alohse@ushmm.org.

CFP: The Holocaust in 21st-Century Children’s, Young Adult and Adult Literature

Deadline: December 31, 2022

https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/literature-holocaust/ 

The CoHLit-21 research consortium is pleased to announce the international conference The Holocaust in 21^st-Century Children’s, Young Adult and Adult Literature: New Comparative Perspectives. Hosted by the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and organized with additional support from Stichting Auschwitz/Fondation Auschwitz and the Department of Literary Studies at KU Leuven, the conference will take place from 27 to 29 June, 2023 in the city of Antwerp, Belgium.

 

Scope and objectives of the conference

Along with the emergence of the so-called ‘fourth generation’, we are currently observing the end of what Esther Jilovsky (2015, 24) has called ‘the first phase of Holocaust memory’ (embodied by the lifespan of the survivors). At the same time, we are witnessing a global proliferation of remembrance practices related to the Shoah (as well as new challenges to this memory). What is needed in this new constellation – especially if we take into account the continuing dominance of Anglo-American perspectives in Holocaust Literary Studies – is a profoundly comparative and multilingual approach that takes into account the cultural, sociological and biographical multiplicity of positions occupied by contemporary – Jewish and non-Jewish – writers and their multi-vocal engagement with the Holocaust.

While drawing further on recent efforts to venture beyond the national framework and to open up bilateral, regional or even cross-continental perspectives – on contemporary Jewish writing in general and on Holocaust literature in particular (Liska and Nolden 2008; Marszalek and Molisak 2010; Rosen 2013; Ibler 2014; Żurek and von der Lühe 2019; Artwinska and Tippner 2022), the Antwerp conference will serve a double purpose. First of all, it will seek to take stock of the most important outcomes and findings of the comparative research that has been carried out by the CoHLit-21 research team members over the past two years (in the domain of contemporary children’s, young adult and adult literature alike). Speaking in spatial terms, the comparatist endeavors of the consortium have been organized around an East-West axis that encompasses three major (German, Russian and English) and three minor languages (Polish, Dutch and Hebrew) and six corresponding geographical areas (Germany, Russia, the US, Poland, the Low Countries and Israel). Apart from reflecting various degrees of spatial, cultural and historical proximity to the actual events of the Holocaust, the project’s geographical scope has allowed to combine a prominent Eurocentric focus with a double intercontinental perspective (geared towards Israel and the US as the most important centers of contemporary Jewish life).

At the same time, another key objective of the concluding CoHLit-21 conference will be to open up – further and broader – comparative perspectives on 21^st-century literary production and the Holocaust, beyond the languages and geographical areas that have been covered by the aforementioned comparatist project. Within the framework of the conference, we broadly understand Holocaust-related literary production not only as a textual phenomenon (i.e., a body of artefacts intended for an adult, young adult and children’s readership), but also as a social practice (embedded in specific institutional and ideological contexts and frameworks). Along these lines, we welcome both textually and contextually oriented proposals that offer a multilingual, transnational, cross-cultural – or otherwise comparative – perspective on post-2000 literary production in its engagement with the Holocaust.

 

Suggested topics for paper proposals

Topics and themes to be explored through a comparative lens include (but are not limited to):

• transnational and cross-cultural shifts in literary representation of the Holocaust since 2000
• Holocaust memory in contemporary literary production (familial, national, second-/third-/fourth-generation, post-memory, multidirectional memory, cosmopolitan memory, ...)
• the role of local and national memory institutions in the production, promotion and dissemination of Holocaust-themed literature
• the function of translations and adaptations in the transnational circulation of Holocaust memory
• satire, parody and blasphemy in contemporary Holocaust literature
• forms of cross-over and connection between historiographical research and literary production
• the pop-culturalization of Holocaust memory
• the use of Holocaust literature in educational programs for children and young adults
• gendered experiences and representations of the Holocaust
• temporality and spatiality in literary representations of the Holocaust
• the role of material objects and non-human actors in contemporary Holocaust literature
• the language(s) of the Holocaust
• diasporic transformations of Holocaust memory
• the nexus between the local and the global in contemporary Holocaust literature
• literary Holocaust memory vis-à-vis other histories of trauma and violence

Practical information

Paper proposals must be received in electronic form no later than December 31, 2022 and should be sent to cohlit.21@gmail.com. Applications should include an abstract (up to 300 words) and a short CV (up to 50 words). Abstracts should contain the following information: author(s) with affiliation(s), title and text of the proposal, selected bibliography with 3-5 academic references and five keywords.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in the beginning of January. Further information about registration and accommodation will be made available on the conference webpage no later than March 1, 2023. Accepted submissions will be grouped into appropriate thematic sessions by the organizers. Each day of the conference will feature a keynote lecture by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field.

CFA: Graduate Research Fellowships, Center for Jewish History

Deadline: February 3, 2023

The Center for Jewish History offers ten-month fellowships to doctoral candidates to support original research using the collections of the Center’s Partners - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Preference is given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one Partner institution. Fellowships must run for 10 months, starting September 2023, and applicants should have completed all requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree except for the dissertation.

Fellows are encouraged to spend at least three days per week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using the archival and library resources. For those who do not reside in commuting distance of New York, a hybrid model is possible; “hybrid” entails spending two months at the Center and working remotely for the remainder of the fellowship period if the majority of collection material is already digitized. Please note that the Center currently cannot commit to digitization of any undigitized collection materials during the fellowship period. In rare cases (e.g., war, natural disasters), we may be able to offer remote fellowships to those who cannot come to New York if their materials are available digitally on-line. Fellows must also participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, attend monthly meetings of the fellowship program cohort, present a pre-circulated paper to be discussed at one of those monthly meetings, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at CJH, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing their experience as a Center Fellow.

A total of four or five fellowships are available for the 2023-24 year: three Lapidus Fellowships and one or two Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellowships. These fellowships carry stipends of $30,000 for a period of 10 months.

Preference for the Lapidus Fellowships will be given to those researchers who will use the Sidney Lapidus Collections of the Center or its in-house partner, the American Jewish Historical Society. The Lapidus collections are comprised of books, pamphlets, and broadsides relating broadly to the social conditions, intellectual life, and gradual emancipation of the Jews of Europe (primarily Western) from the 17th through the 19th century, as well as the social and legal status of Jews in the United States from the formative years of the Republic through the following century. The Lapidus collections are accessible here in our catalog. If you have any questions regarding the collection materials donated by Sidney Lapidus, please reach out to lgilbert@cjh.org. Please specify in your application if you are applying for the Lapidus Fellowship.

Download the application guidelines.

Eligibility

• The fellowships are open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and international institutions.
• Applicants should have completed all requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree except for the dissertation.
• Fellows will be permitted to hold a concurrent fellowship provided it does not contain any residency requirement or interfere in any way with full participation in the activities described above. Please consult the Center before accepting any additional fellowships, academic or other positions to be held during the term of the Center fellowship.
• For non-U.S. citizens, it is the responsibility of the applicant to have the appropriate visa for acceptance of the award during the ten-month fellowship term. The Center is not a visa-granting institution.

Requirements for Application

• Cover letter stating area of interest, knowledge of relevant languages, and how the project relates to the general mission of the Center for Jewish History
• Curriculum Vitae, including contact information, education, publications, scholarly and/or museum activities, teaching experience, and any other relevant work experience
• Research proposal of no more than four pages double-spaced, including specific reference to the collections at the Center and clearly stated goals for research during the period of the fellowship
• If applying with a hybrid or remote fellowship in mind, provide detailed information on how much of collections to be consulted are digitized.
• A one-page bibliography of important secondary sources for the project
• Graduate school transcript
• One letter of recommendation from the candidate’s primary advisor. The letter should address the significance of the candidate’s work for their field, as well as the candidate’s ability to fulfill the proposed work. Please ensure that your application indicates the name and contact information of the person writing the letter on your behalf.
• Letter of recommendation should be sent separately, directly by the recommender. Ask the recommender to address the letter to fellowships@cjh.org.
• Please submit all application materials electronically as one continuous PDF document (except the letter of recommendation).

 

The schedule for the application process is as follows:

• All application materials must be received by February 3, 2023 for consideration.
• Announcement of grant recipients by April 2023.
• Commencement of grant period is September 2023, and it runs for 10 months.

Applications are to be submitted to: fellowships@cjh.org