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

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...

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.

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.

#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

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

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

#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

#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...

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-...

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.

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...

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!

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:

The research collaboration symposium will take place between 10-12 June, 2026 in Bonn, Germany. Deadline 29 October 2025.

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!

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Got a project? Half a project? Just a vague, Jewish history daydream? Present it at one of our Work in Progress seminars! Share what you’re currently working on (academic or otherwise — thesis chapters, articles, art) and get constructive feedback from our supportive group.

Mixed dancing with Robert Redford (1936-2025) and Barbra Streisand in “The Way We Were” (1973) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfV...

I've deleted my academia.edu. The new ToCs were totally unacceptable.

Holy hell

TT assistant prof position in Jewish Studies at James Madison University has opened up! Due November 2

Mazel tov to joint HJS and @uclssees.bsky.social student Dov Forman on being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Content Creators for his work posting educational content about the Holocaust on TikTok and Instagram. time.com/collections/... @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity? 📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY 🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST 🚨 #postdoc

Jewish materials in archives can present unique challenges. This blog serves as an introduction for archivists handling this kind of material, with top tips and where to get more help. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/an-intr... #JewishHistory #Hebrew #SocialHistory #Archives

Most humanities research — including the best, most world leading research by people we’ve all heard of — is unfunded, by which they mean produced as part of one’s routine job as a university lecturer, just “not funded by a big competitive external grant”. This would mean the death of research.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in the UK, dating back to the Norman Conquest, was just discovered. www.jpost.com/history/arti...

We're hiring! EHRI-UK Project Assistant - remote work w/ some travel @wienerlibrary.bsky.social Part time (0.4-0.5FTE depending on candidate). Initially 9 months but anticipating extension. Perfect for #PhD students - spread the word! Closing date 26/09/25 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/s...

The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!

‘Vivienne Stern, from Universities UK.… said the "slow erosion" of university finances needed to be stopped and the government "was needed on the pitch pretty fast" with longer-term solutions.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to the new @uclhjs.bsky.social BA graduates and to all of us for making it to @artshumsucl.bsky.social graduation despite the Tube strikes. (I’m also amazed that Marston Events sourced full @upenn.edu regalia from across the pond for my first graduation as academic staff.)

Last day of the @stanfordpress.bsky.social Late Summer Sale! 50% off books for US customers, including my own "It Could Lead to Dancing" at $15 paperback. www.sup.org/books/jewish...

The seminars will be held online every other month from October 2025 to May 2026. To contribute, please get in touch with us via [email protected] @jewishhistorical.bsky.social #JewishStudies

Prominent far-right influencers have been attempting to rehabilitate Hitler's reputation. That's not an exaggeration; it's easily documented. I wrote about why they are doing this, what they hope to gain, and what it means for America.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Visiting Research Fellowships ⬇️

#CallforApplications 📣 The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜 1/3

The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry is inviting submissions for its 2027 Year Book Essay Prize. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/essay-prize

“When Pepi Littman stepped out onto the stage and caught sight of the [armed gangsters in the first row], she choked up out of fear and was unable even to open her mouth.” New from the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project — excerpts from Zina Rapel’s memoirs, trans. Zachary Baker. uwm.edu/yiddish-stag...

#CfP Transnational Approaches to the Long Nineteenth-Century History of East-Central Europe 📌 Conference in Vilnius | 16.–17.04.2026 | organised by the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg, GHI Warsaw & Lithuanian Institute of History 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/au...

There's still tickets available to attend next week's event online or in-person at the Library! Sign up now: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/poetry...

Friday 5 September is the closing date for the following three funding calls, hosted by the Royal Historical Society: > Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History > Early Career Fellowship Grants > Open Research Support Grants Full details and eligibility for these awards bit.ly/425YJgC

In August 1889, London's Jewish tailors went on strike for better conditions. Leaflets were printed in English and Yiddish and by September, 10,000 workers had joined the protest. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/gr... #JewishHistory

We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun 😀

CFP deadline coming up on 1st September for our “Power Couples” workshop next Spring. Do think about submitting a paper (work in progress stuff very welcomed!) We’ve had some wonderful proposals sent in relating to a wide array of different global contexts and methodological approaches - exciting!

Hey folks!! Just a month to go until we play an intimate gig at the lovely Harrison pub near King's X. Come along if you fancy hearing some klezmer tunes that'll make you laugh/cry/dance 😉 #klezmermusic #klezmer #camden #london #nw1 tickets: bit.ly/harrison-hs

Just three weeks left until the deadline for the CEH Prize. We can't wait to read all the submissions!

Looking forward to this translation by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Boyarin, who were in my @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social Translation Fellowship cohort. “As the Story Goes” is forthcoming with @benyehudapress.bsky.social. www.benyehudapress.com/books/as-the...

Please join us Tuesday, September 2 for an invited talk by Dr. Prof. Michael Brenner (Munich/Washington DC). Details at: tinyurl.com/MBrenner @samirakmehta.bsky.social @hfalbk.bsky.social