is offering up to 2 visiting fellowships for Ph.D. students in the fields of History, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, or Art History starting in October 2024. Deadline: 20 May 2024 Successful candidates will receive a monthly stipend of ca. 7,500 NIS. They will be given offices at the Hebrew University (Mount Scopus campus), and will expected to be present at least two days a week. They will take part in a group enterprise of creating a history of Jewish life in Europe during ..read more

offering up to 2 Post-Doctoral scholarships beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year. Scholars who have received their Ph.D. after October 1st 2019 or will submit their Ph.D. no later than October 1st 2024 are eligible to apply. Deadline: 20 May 2024 The successful candidates will spend one academic year in Jerusalem (with a possibility of extension to two or more years). They will take part in a group enterprise of creating a history of Jewish life in Europe during the XIVth century with an ..read more

Read this new article by Aleksandra Bruncic, Catherine Albers-Morris, and Gregory Heyworth about “Multispectral Imaging to Recover Lost Text in the Sarajevo Haggadah” in the Journal of Cultural Heritage 67 (2024): 284–89 ..read more

Al crocevia di tre mondi.  Il «Corano di Flavio Mitridate» (ms. Vat. Ebr. 357, fol. 51r-156r) e lo studio dell’Islam nell’Italia del Quattrocento. Lunedì 13-martedì 14 maggio 2024. Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale Sala conferenze, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Chiatamone 61/62 Napoli Organizzazione scientifica: Benoît Grévin, Giuseppe Mandalà benoit.grevin@ehess.fr; giuseppe.mandala@unimi.it Segreteria: Katarzyna Starczewska katarzyna.starczewska@cchs.csic.es Lunedì 13 maggio: mattina. 10.00-10.15 Roberto Tottoli (Università di Napoli L’Orientale, EuQu): Saluti istituzionali, present ..read more

In the new Fragment of the Month post, Marc Michaels analyses a divorce document form 1492 ..read more

The new issue of The Journal of Jewish Studies 75.1 (2024) is now available online ..read more

The new volume of Jewish History  Volume 37, issue 3-4  (March 2024) is out now with several articles offering medieval content ..read more

On Google Arts & Culture you can explore several UNESCO World Heritage Sites – including the Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt, which was inscribed in September 2023. Google have also published a blogspot about these newly-inscribed sites which have just joined the UNESCO Collection ..read more

Application deadline: 30 May 2024 Midnight, Central European Summer Time ..read more

The First International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024. The intensive courses about Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo, Spanyolit) the Sephardi language and culture will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Spanish, Musicology, Sociology, Anthropology and more. The courses include tours in Jerusalem, visits to Ladino collections, archival work and field work with La ..read more