#JobOpportunity für alle, die gerne digitale Prozesse & Projekte gestalten und die digitale Strategie des @jmfrankfurt.bsky.social weiterentwickeln möchten: ich freue mich über Bewerbungen auf die feste Stelle eines/r Leiter:in Digitale Transformation www.juedischesmuseum.de/museum/beitr...

Funded PhD position to work with the Averroes edition project in Cologne (fun fact: this is the same city as Köln, which I only belatedly figured out when I moved to Germany, which was very embarassing): averroes.uni-koeln.de/call-for-app...

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Thrilled to be 'most read'! the whole volume is fantastic: 👇

The Polish Exile www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

We are pleased to announce our Hebrew Manuscript Studies Workshop, which will take place from 22 June-3 July 2026! Applications are due by noon (UK time) on February 20th. For course and application details, see the following page: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... #oxford #Summer2026 #Manuscripts

New job: Full Professorship in Modern History - History of Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century (W3) (f/m/d) University of Cologne jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69794

Reposting, now with link for registration www.pennpress.org/events/revit... and alt-text 😉

New paid doctoral position with the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus project in Munich, for students researching Arabic or Latin texts related to Ptolemy's astronomical or astrological material; dissertation can be in English or German, apply by March 31st. ptolemaeus.badw.de/start #HistSTM #MedievalSky

A new issue of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 38 (liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...) has just been published, with many excellent contributions on "Gender and the Body in East European Jewish History"—and my humble article: doi.org/10.3828/poli... Many thanks to the editors!

As part of the upcoming celebrations to mark 40 years of publishing 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', @livunipress.bsky.social publishes a selection of articles from the past decades - free to read for 12 months. Have a look! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Please share! Two new postdoc positions have opened in the RADHEART project at the University of Bergen. The first is on ancient Rabbinic literature from the 2nd – 7th century CE. #AcRel #sblaar #AncientBlueSky www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

📆 Closing date: 2 January 2026 Apply via: professorships.uni-koeln.de

#skystorians: permanent position (professorship with tenure track to W3) in early modern global history has just been advertised at the University of Cologne, please share widely! berufungen.uni-koeln.de/tender/showP...

Fellowship Announcement: Scholarship program of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 2026 Annual Theme: Small Forms – Between Materiality, Mediality and Genre #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Junior Professorship (W1) with Tenure Track leading to W2 for Jewish Studies at Hamburg University. Deadline: 19 June 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17504

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/rev...

An exciting (and permanent) opportunity for specialists in (modern) Jewish Studies to work with a great team in Erfurt: www.uni-erfurt.de/universitaet...

#HybridEvent | Workshop at the CSMC Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture on Spatio-temporal Profiles of Multigraphic Written Artefacts | www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/register/wor... 🗓️ From May 22, 2025 to May 24, 2025

#CfA | W2-Professur für das Fachgebiet Jüdischer Film und audiovisuelle Erinnerung an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Bewerbungsfrist: 25. Mai 2025

Assistant Professor in Islamic Art (ca. 1500-ca. 1700) of the Safavid and/or Mughal Empires- University of Cambridge - Department of History of Art #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND932/a...

Tomorrow (May 20), a conversation on Islamic magic traditions in European intellectual history, with Charles Burnett (Warburg), Matthew Melvin-Koushki (U. South Carolina), and Michael Noble (Exeter) warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/europ...

#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i... Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025

"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Tomorrow (April 9), a conversation on Jewish magic in European intellectual history, with Moshe Idel (Jerusalem) and Saverio Campanini (Bologna): warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/jewis...

3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000: - Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages - Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life - The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...

Decent people thank Ukraine.

🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨 The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine... #LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScience

CfA: Lecturer in Hebrew at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne Deadline for application: March 3, 2025 Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfa-...

We are now accepting #applications for our #Hebrew #ManuscriptStudies: #Codicology, #Palaeography, #ArtHistory #workshop (23 Jun-4 Jul)! Deadline to apply 21 Feb, 12 noon UK time: www.ochjs.ac.uk/call-for-app... @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight. Could not make this up.

Closing date now extended until 02 February 2025

Call for Applications: Oxford Center for Hebrew & Jewish Studies Fellowship program. The deadline for applications is February 14. jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2025/01/09/c...

Call for Papers: Tracing Jewish Histories – The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture. Submission deadline Feb. 27, 2025 @courtauld.bsky.social jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2024/12/03/c...

'For disabilities, see infirmities'. My new blog post just published on finding disabled lives in indexes, archives and libraries. #dishist #disability www.archives.org.uk/diversity-al...

Attention ECR #histmed #histsci. Tune in on 2 Dec for my talk—'Why Astrological Medicine Doesn't Work: Reflections on How to Write the Histories of Science and Medicine'—to promote @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Student Essay Prize sshm.org/portfolio/pr... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sshm-l...

Harvard’s Starr fellowship theme next year = Kabbalah! cjs.fas.harvard.edu/2024/11/13/2...

There's still time to apply for a Bodleian Library Fellowship. This year for the first time one of them is in Polish Studies! www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade: Conference is in November 2025 CfP open until March 2025 museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Part one of "European Magic and its Traditions" at the Warburg Institute (online) coming soon! Registration is still open - join us for a conversation with Prof Anthony Grafton on his recent book, "Magus", this coming Tuesday: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/europ...

#dhjewish job klaxon! Postdoc for “Patterns of Knowledge Circulation: The Transmission and Reception of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Early Modern East-Central Europe” www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

CfA for the intensive summer Hebrew manuscript workshops, organised by OCHJS and FUB in Oxford, has just been released! Date: 17-28 June, 2024 (Bodleian Library) Applications close on 19 January 2024 at 12 noon. Apply here: ochjs.ac.uk/2024-hebrew-...

#earlymodern CFP.

🎉It's our 2023 book list, featuring historians working off the tenure track around the world 🎉

Thinking of applying for a Bodleian Visiting Fellowship? Don't forget: Applications must be sent by email, before the deadline of Friday 1 December 2023, 5pm! www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

Did I mention that applications for our Visiting Fellowships @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social are open for the 2024-25 academic year? bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowship…