The studentship consists of a UK/EU fees bursary over three years and an annual maintenance grant of £ 10,000. It is offered by the Centre for Jewish Studies in conjunction with the University of Leeds Legacies of War Centenary Project and is funded by the Montague Burton Endowment.

As well as carrying out doctoral research, the successful candidate is expected to contribute to the development and coordination of academic and community engagement activities that will be organised by Legacies of War and cultural partners (including Jewish organisations) during the Centenary years 2014-2018. The candidate will have opportunities to present his/her research findings in the context of these activities.

Click here for an application form and further particulars.

Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center from January 2013 through June 2013 (the term of fellowship might be extended if the financial circumstances of the Center allow). During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to participate in the workshops, colloquia and all activities of the Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center.

This call is open to all proposals within the scope of the center’s research interests and activities.

Applicants must have fair knowledge of the German language, i.e. the ability to read texts in German and to follow lectures given in the German language.

Applicants interested in a postdoctoral fellowship must have been awarded the Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2008. Applications for a doctoral fellowship can only be accepted if the applicant has been a Ph.D. student for not more than five years.

Applicants may be of all nationalities. Israeli citizens applying for a doctoral fellowship must be registered at the Hebrew University as a Ph.D. student. Israeli citizens who are registered as Ph.D. students at a university abroad will be treated as international applicants.

Successful applicants will be granted a monthly stipend of 5,500 NIS. Furthermore, international applicants will be entitled to health insurance coverage. Fellows from abroad will also be allotted a round-trip flight (up to $800 or €600).

Applicants must submit:

• Application Form [download from the website of The Rosenzweig Center]
• A letter of application
• The research proposal (3-10 pages)
• Curriculum Vitae
• An example of written work, max. 30 pages
• Two letters of recommendation
• Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma

Submission of applications and inquiries should be sent to the following e-mail address: rosenzweigfellowship@gmail.com. All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.

Please arrange for the letters of recommendation to be sent directly by your referees to the following e-mail address: rosenzweig@vms.huji.ac.il.

Closing date for receipt of applications is May 15, 2012. Decisions will be made within a month and a half and applicants will be informed forthwith.

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin Building, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905

http://rosenzweig.huji.ac.il

Phone: 00972-2-588 1909 or 588 1686
Fax: 00972-2-521 13 69

rosenzweigfellowship@gmail.com

Our annual APJ Essay Prize will be awarded to new work in the philosophy of Judaism. The winner will receive $500 and will also have their paper published in Faith & Philosophy, subject to the ratification of the editorial team of the journal. We are grateful to Faith & Philosophy for their support of our prize.

We define the philosophy of Judaism broadly, to include any of the following:

• Philosophical engagement with any of the key texts of Rabbinic Judaism (Biblical or Rabbinic);
• Philosophical engagement with any of the key tenets of Jewish faith;
• Philosophical engagement with any of the key concepts of Jewish peoplehood, such as communal identity over time;
• Philosophical engagement with classical texts of Jewish philosophy and with philosophers of Judaism, i.e. with texts and philosophers that dealt with any of the issues raised above.

We invite submissions of new work in any of these fields to be considered for the prize. Candidate essays should be no longer than 10,000 words and include a 500 word abstract; they must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review by any journal until we have finished considering it for the prize.

Entries should be prepared for blind-review and sent to info@theapj.com.

Deadline for entries is 31 August, 2012.

Winner will be announced by 1 November, 2012.

The Association for the Philosophy of Judaism reserves the right not to award the prize if no entry is thought to be of a suitably high quality.

www.theapj.com

The course is available residentially in Cambridge or via e-learning. You may choose to spend part (or all) of your second year working on your dissertation at one of the Austrian, Czech, German, Polish or Swiss universities with whom we have Erasmus agreements. If you are thinking of pursuing a relevant PhD after the MSt, the Faculty of Divinity may recognize the MSt as the first year of study towards your doctorate.

To be admitted to the MSt, you will need a good first degree in an Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences discipline.

For further information please go to: http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/courses/mst.asp

The CJCR can currently offer up to two studentships covering tuition fees for both years (for UK/EU or international students) and a number of bursaries covering part of the tuition fees for entrants wishing to pursue the MSt beginning in the autumn of 2012.

If you have queries or intend to apply, please contact Emma Harris, at your earliest convenience: eth22@cam.ac.uk

Emma Harris
CJCR
Wesley House
Jesus Lane
Cambridge CB5 8BJ
0044 1223 741 038
Email: eth22@cam.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/cjcr/

This one-year Master’s degree provides a broad multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Jewish history and culture from antiquity to modern times. Taught courses are combined with the intensive study of Biblical or Modern Hebrew or Yiddish. Students also write a dissertation on a subject of their choice.

Scholarships are available from the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Information and application forms online @ www.ochjs.ac.uk/home/students/introduction

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford OX5 1PY
Tel: +44-1865-377946 Fax: +44-1865-375079
Academic Registrar: +44-1865-842195

The International MA Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa is offering two scholarships of $3,500 each to be awarded to students who conduct research on the Righteous Among the Nations.

Applicants must be students of the international graduate program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa and start their studies in October 2012. They are required to enroll in Track A (preparation of a research dissertation) and focus their dissertation on non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

Applicants for the scholarships must submit a personal letter explaining their reasons for applying for the scholarship.

To be eligible for these scholarships, applicants must complete the program application by April 15th, 2012.

Scholarships to outstanding students on a competitive basis are awarded to students who meet academic and administrative criteria, based on their academic achievements and depending on budgetary possibilities. in accordance Candidates for this scholarship will be identified and ranked by the academic committee and then approved by the Graduate Studies Authority.

For further questions, please contact Ms. Donna Chagal, program coordinator at dchagal@univ.haifa.ac.il

For information about other scholarships available for students wishing to pursue a master’s in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa please contact Dr. Yael Granot at ygranot@univ.haifa.ac.il.

For information about our International MA program, please visit http://holocaust-studies.haifa.ac.il.

The Programme

The Leo Baeck Institute MA trains scholars towards undertaking independent research on Jewish history, culture and thought in Europe. It provides a strong grounding in approaches and theories which have influenced the ways in which scholars understand Jewish history. Simultaneously, the MA introduces students to a wide range of sources available for European Jewish studies. Particular attention will be paid to the Jewish response to modernity and problems around the definition and issues of assimilation and identity. The role of antisemitism and the origins of the Holocaust are central, as is Jewish intellectual history, focusing on the ideas of eminent Jewish thinkers about the place of Jews and Judaism in pre-modern and modern society.

The MA consists of the core module, three modules chosen from a series of options and an individually supervised dissertation. Students will also take a non-assessed research methods course. Part-time students take the core module and one option in the first year, and two options and dissertation in the second year.

Optional modules may include:

• Modern Jewish History and Culture
• Christians and Jews in Europe: Perceptions and Encounters, 1100-1600
• Jews, Power and Intellectual History
• Antisemitism and the Holocaust
• Modern European Jewish Literature
• Hollywood and the Second World War
• Understanding Religion Historically
• Overcoming Nazism

The Leo Baeck Institute

The Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) is the leading research institute in the field of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry in Europe from the 17^th Century onwards. It was founded in 1955 and named after Leo Baeck, the last public representative of the Jewish Community in Nazi Germany. Among the Institute’s publications are the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and the Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen. The institute organises a broad range of events such as lecture series and international conferences, and has recently established two research professorships to investigate the role of German-speaking Jews in 19^th and 20^th century academia.

The School of History at Queen Mary

The School of History at Queen Mary is one of the largest history departments in London and offers a very wide range of degree courses and research opportunities.

It provides first-rate teaching fuelled by cutting-edge research within a friendly, welcoming atmosphere with an emphasis on student support. RAE 2008 has ranked Queen Mary among the top 15 research universities in the UK. The School of History, having entered all of its academic staff performed very well with nearly a third of our research rated as ‘world leading’ and nearly two-thirds as ‘internationally excellent’ or better.

General Entry Requirements

An upper second class honours undergraduate degree or higher in History (or overseas equivalent). Mature students from other academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Please visit http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/index.html to download an application form.

Please ensure you submit a statement of purpose as requested on the application form. This should be 500 – 750 words in length. Please address the following:

• Why do you want to study the Leo Baeck Institute MA in European Jewish History programme at Queen Mary?
• How do you think the MA will assist you in your future ambitions?
• Please identify any relevant experience which has prepared you for this programme.

Deadline for receipt of applications for bursaries: 16 April 2012

2012/13 Home/EU Fee: £5,500
2012/13 Overseas Fee: £12,000

Further information links:

http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk

http://jewishstudies.history.qmul.ac.uk

http://www.leobaeck.co.uk

Contact:

Jon Clifford
Admissions Administrator
j.clifford@qmul.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8370

These awards are open to all new PhD students (home, EU or overseas) and all disciplines. The Centre for Jewish Studies is encouraging applications to the Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (LLC) or to the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (AHC), in regard to this funding scheme from candidates working on Jewish Studies topics, including post-biblical and classical rabbinic literature, medieval Jewish-Muslim Relations, modern Jewish-Christian Relations, modern Jewish philosophy, Holocaust Studies, Israel Studies and the history and culture of modern Middle Eastern Jewry. The award covers tuition fees (home/EU or international, as appropriate) and the equivalent of the research council stipend (£13,590 in 2011-12). The following application deadlines should be observed in relation to this award:

An application for a place on a doctoral programme should be submitted to the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures or to the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures by Wednesday 15 February 2012 at the latest; a completed funding application form should be submitted by Friday 1 March 2012 at the latest.

For guidelines about how to apply to the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, please visit http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/
For the departments or subject areas included in this school, please see
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/

For guidelines about how to apply to the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, please visit
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduatestudy/funding/fundingfordoctoralstudents/
For the departments or subject areas included in this school, please see
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduatestudy/researchbysubject/

For informal inquiries about the academic side of the application process, please contact Professor Alex Samely (LLC) at Alex.Samely@manchester.ac.uk or Professor Daniel Langton (AHC) at Daniel.Langton@manchester.ac.uk

For questions about the administrative side of the application process, please contact Ms Rachel Corbishley (LLC) at Rachel.Corbishley@manchester.ac.uk  or Mrs Joanne Marsh (AHC) at Joanne.Marsh@manchester.ac.uk

AS/20 December 2011