Department: Center for Jewish/Christian Studies
Position: Associate Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
Job ID: 8419
Hiring Range: $51,650 – $64,550

Job Description
The Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning seeks an Associate Director for Administration and Programs.  Through the interaction of scholars and practitioners, the Center aims to nurture a range of activities that advance the cause of mutual understanding and enrichment between Jews and Christians.  The Associate Director should have a solid academic background for Christian-Jewish relations, ideally in religious studies but other relevant fields will be considered.  Preference will be given to a person with experience in administration and in Christian-Jewish dialogue.

The Associate Director will work with the Center’s Director and Associate Directors in developing and coordinating research initiatives, conferences, publications and general educational programs.  The Associate Director will facilitate the relations between the Center and other groups working in the area of Christian-Jewish relations.

This is a full-time position with benefits.  The Associate Director will report to the Director, who is a member of the faculty at Boston College.

Among the Associate Director’s responsibilities will be:

• Managing the day-to day operations of the Center, overseeing the Center’s finances, and supervising student interns;
• Acting as the managing editor of the Center’s on-line journal Studies in Christian- Jewish Relations;
• Coordinating the Center’s conferences and lectures 
- Overseeing the design of the Center’s website.

Requirements

• Advanced degree, preferably in religious studies with major interests and experience in Christian-Jewish relations;
• Strong writing skills, appropriate for drafting and editing articles, reports, etc..
• Experience with (or willingness to be trained in) major computer programs and familiarity with PeopleSoft, web site management and basic office software.

The University seeks candidates who intend to use the degree to further an existing career in cultural, educational, archeographical, or communal work, such as museum professionals and educators; archivists; school teachers; civil servants engaged in issues related to Jews and Judaism, ethnic relations, migration, and the like; community workers for whom the degree will provide enrichment for their current work (e.g. work with Holocaust survivors).

Eligibility:

• You must be a national of and currently residing within one of the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, or Slovakia. Please note that this year we are not accepting applications from non-European Union countries, though we hope to be able to do so again in subsequent years.
• You must be expecting to return to the country concerned at the end of the period of study.
• You should hold a degree of an equivalent standard to at least a good UK second class Honours degree.
• Normally be aged between 23 and 35 years.
• Have a standard of English that meets University of Southampton admission requirements.
• Have not already been awarded a university doctorate from another academic institution.
• Have not already spent a substantial period of time studying in a university outside your home country.

Deadline: April 30, 2010
How to apply:
See our website http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/postgrad/ma1.html for information about the programme and details on how to apply.  Please apply online for the MA programme at http://www.soton.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgstudy/howdoiapplypg.html and send a personal statement regarding this studentship to Professor Joachim Schlör, Head of the Parkes Institute, at schloer@soton.ac.uk.

Proposals for papers (and panels) in the following areas are especially welcome:

• Biblical traditions and their interpretation
• Notions of ‘the image of God’
• Jewish art and Jewish symbols
• Idolatry and iconoclasm
• The prohibition and acceptance of images in Holocaust representation
• Representing Jewishness in film and television
• Jewish/non-Jewish relations and the second commandment

Single paper proposals should be no longer than 250 words and panel proposals need not exceed one page. Please email proposals to Dr Sarah Pearce (sjp2@soton.ac.uk) with ‘BAJS 2010’ in the subject line.

The deadline for paper abstracts and proposed panels is 31 May 2010. Registration details will be circulated soon.

The conference will be held at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. The Parkes Institute is a unique centre for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages. The Institute, through its research, publications, teaching and outreach work, is based on the library and life work of the Christian scholar and activist, the Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896-1981). The library now consists of over 20,000 printed items – books, pamphlets and journals – and is supplemented by one of the largest collections of Jewish archives in Europe, consisting of many hundreds of individual and institutional records, totalling millions of individual items. (http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/)

Membership of BAJS is open to anyone interested in an academic approach to Jewish studies. Members of BAJS work in a wide range of academic disciplines including history, religious studies, theology, literature, linguistics and sociology. For membership enquiries, please contact Dr Lars Fischer, CJCR, Wesley House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BJ. Email: lf309@cam.ac.uk.
Annual subscription rates: Ordinary Members: £15.00; Associates: £10.00; Students: £5.00.

Participating faculty in 2010 will be Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Institute for the History of German Jewry, Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Christhard Hoffmann (University of Bergen) and Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese (University of Sussex).

This year we particularly invite applications of students working on projects outside the area of German-Jewish history. A separate call for papers inviting applications for projects devoted to German Jewry will be published for a workshop organised by the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts. Both workshops will take place at the same time at the University of Sussex, thus enabling a dialogue between students in German Jewish and European Jewish history =
and culture.

Travel expenses, accommodation and meals for the Max and Hilde Kochmann Summer School will be paid for by the CGJS. Students from Central and Eastern Europe are especially encouraged to apply; individual candidates from Israel and the United States will also be considered, but may be asked to contribute towards their flight costs.

Candidates should send (by email) a 3-5-page proposal outlining their PhD project, a c.v. and one letter of recommendation (by the supervisor or any other relevant scholar with expertise on their topic) by 31 March 2010 to:

Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex
Falmer, BN1 9QN
United Kingdom
Tel: 0044/1273/877344
Email: c.wiese@sussex.ac.uk

Successful candidates will be notified by 15 April 2010.

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
Yarnton Manor, Yarnton, Oxford

10 a.m.        Michael Law (University of Oxford, UK):
“Midrash, Targum, Translation: Does the Greek Version of Kings Reflect Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation?”

10:45 a.m.    Philip Alexander (University of Manchester, UK):
“Greek Culture and the Rabbis: The Case of the Beit Midrash”

11:30 a.m.    Coffee

12 noon    Reinhart Ceulemans (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium):
“Christian access to the Three: some observations on the consultation of Jewish informants”

12:45 p.m.    Lorenzo Cuppi (University of Durham, UK):
“The Treatment of Personal Names in the Book of Proverbs from the Septuagint to the Masoretic Text”

1:30 p.m.     Lunch

2:30 p.m.     Julia Krivoruchko (University of Cambridge, UK):
“The Glosses from the Three in the manuscript Evr. IIA 1980”

3:15 p.m.     Shifra  Sznol (Bar Ilan University, Israel):
“Two Columns for one Bible (Constantinople 1547): Judaeo-Greek and Ladino”

For further information and registration, please contact: Martine Smith-Huvers registrar@ochjs.ac.uk, Tel: 01865 842195(registration is ￡5 for students, ￡10 for non-student: the cost is to cover the vegetarian lunch).

There will be another day conference for the project, entitled ‘Aquila and the Rabbis’, on Monday June 21st.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 April 2010

Memorial of Caen
22-23 October 2010

“In criminal proceedings against Jews, the fact of their Jewishness is decisive, not their personal responsibility.”
Otto Georg Thierack, German Reich Minister of Justice, 1942

The different stages in the destruction of the European Jews from legal persecution to systematic extermination have been explored in great detail by historians, both in regard to the development of Nazi decision making and in terms of the policies implemented in individual states. Recent research has amply underscored the fundamental role of the law as the basis for the various anti-Jewish policies, starting in 1933; several studies have been dedicated to anti-Jewish legislationand its application by civil and administrative courts. By contrast, the more complex but no less crucial role of criminal law (along with police and judicial repression associated with it) in the chain of anti-Jewish persecution has been rather more neglected by scholars. But the application by “ordinary” state institutions of what could be termed “antisemitic criminal law” constituted an important field of action for Nazi Germany and its allies. Our conference focuses on the role of European states’ criminal justice systems in the implementation of anti-Jewish policies between 1933 and 1945, seeking to provide the first survey of international scholarship. Panels will pay particular attention to the comparative dimension, in order to shed light on both local specificities and broader policies adopted across Nazi-dominated Europe.

The conference will be organized around three large themes:

1) Antisemitic legislation and the criminalization of Jews
Topics may include:

• The introduction of antisemitic criminal law across Nazi-dominated Europe, including its periodization, timing and function
• The perversion of existing criminal law to step up the pressure against Jews
• The relationship between German legislation and laws introduced elsewhere in Europe.

2) Mechanisms and actors in the process of repression
Topics may include:

• The various actors involved, including the police, judges, welfare officials and municipal employees
• The workings and the specificities of the repressive processes against Jews, from arrest to sentencing and detention
• Jewish defendants and their changing legal status in the courts.

3) The criminalization of Jews and the Holocaust
Topics may include:

• The relationship between the legal criminalization of Jews and antisemitic policy in general
• The use of criminal statistics and trials in antisemitic propaganda
• The interaction between antisemitic criminal law, judicial repression and the destruction of European Jewry.

Proposals including a 500-word abstract, a short CV and a list of significant publications should be sent to justiceandjews@gmail.com no later than 15 April 2010. They will be examined by a scientific committee 15 May 2010.

Benn Williams
University of Illinois, Chicago

2010 CIVITAS SUMMER PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN WARSAW, POLAND (June 1 – July 31, 2010) in ENGLISH http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/summer/SummerInternshipProgram.html

The summer internship program is organized by Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland includes 25-30 hours of internship per week, academic and internship seminar and a Polish language course.

INTERNSHIPS (IN ENGLISH)
The program offers a unique opportunity for a limited number of students to undertake full-time summer professional internships in various public and non-profit organizations in Warsaw, Poland that focus, among others, on:

• Jewish history, Arts, & Culture http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#jewish,
• Human Rights, Migration, Refugees http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#human,
• European Integration, International Politics, Diplomacy http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#diplomacy,
• Government, Legal and Constitutional Affairs http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#gov,
• Media, Media Advertising, Journalism http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#media,
• Civil Society and Local Community Development, Civic Education http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#society,
• Public health, humanitarianism http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#health,
• Economics, Business, Finance http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#business,
• Quantitative Research and Statistics http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#research,
• Environment http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/organizations/InternshipOrganizations.html#environment.

APPLICATION
Graduate and undergraduate students can apply. Civitas summer internship program has a rolling admission and interested applicants are invited to submit their applications to the program anytime until April 10, 2010. Application forms and requested documents http://www.globaleducationleadership.org/apply/HowtoApply.html.

CONTACT
Inquiries about the program can be directed to Olena Tregub, Executive Director, Global Educational Leadership, at contact@globaleducationleadership.org or tel. 646 670 6089. For more information about the program, application form and costs click here http://www.globaleducationleadership.org.

The BA submission should be a dissertation or long-essay on a subject relating to Jewish Studies.

The MA submission should be an essay on the theme of the forthcoming BAJS conference.

The submission (two hard-copies, one electronic copy, 5000 word limit for postgraduates, 12,000 words for undergraduates) should be marked clearly as Undergraduate or Postgraduate and should include the student’s full contact details. Submissions by post-graduate research students are not considered.
Deadline for submission: 31 July 2010.

Submissions, which are the responsibility of the student, should be sent to: BAJS Student Prize, c/o Dr Sarah Pearce, History, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton, S017 1BJ. Email: s.j.pearce@soton.ac.uk.

The theme of the forthcoming conference is ‘The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism’.

The Prize

• Cash prize of £150 GBP/$244 USD.
• Publication of the winning essay in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies as the opening article of the July 2011 issue (volume 10, issue 2).
• The winning essay will be promoted on the website of the Journal.

The closing date for submissions is 15th November, 2010.

For more information, please visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/competitions/cmjs.pdf