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Call for Applications 2024/2025
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The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships for the academic year 2024-25
Fellowship Theme:
Tradition and Commentary in German-Jewish Culture
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year, devoted to research on “Tradition and Commentary in German-Jewish Culture.” The modernity of modern German Jewry often found expression in a conscious break from Jewish traditions of religious practice, social organization, and education. But the modern period at once witnessed the flourishing of traditional Western Ashkenazi life and study in German-speaking lands, and many of the most secular of modern German-Jewish intellectuals continued to take the traditional Jewish practice of commentary as a prism through which to analyze or question the conventional methods of thinking, reading, and pursuing knowledge around them. After the Shoah, moreover, the remains of properly German-Jewish traditions, both religious and secular, came to have a tremendous influence on intellectual and cultural life in Palestine/Israel and in the United States. Our intention for the 2024-2025 academic year is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including history, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies, whose different perspectives on the study of tradition and commentary in German-Jewish culture will engender fruitful research and scholarly discussion. Although our interest in forms of German-Jewish tradition is broad, we especially invite proposals with a focus on commentary as a German-Jewish cultural practice. Relevant studies might explore Western Ashkenazi approaches to Talmud study, or the role of Bible commentary in the German-Jewish context, and how commentary on canonical Jewish texts served both traditional and revolutionary cultural and political agendas. Projects might examine both the fruitful exchanges and the miscommunications that occurred when traditional Jews introduced their practice of commentary into the space of modern scientific knowledge-acquisition and critique at the dawn of the Enlightenment. Applicants might propose projects which highlight how commentary as literary form continued to preoccupy German-Jewish artists and intellectuals well into the 20th-Century or how it came to be identified with a quintessentially Jewish way of thinking, reading, and writing, even when applied to non- or newly-canonical texts. The Center’s interests in the year’s theme are broad and interdisciplinary, and we encourage scholars of German-Jewish Studies across the humanities to apply.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2024 through June 2025. During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to contribute research on the year’s scholarly theme in the context of the seminar, workshops, and through publication in the Center’s journal.
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 post-doctoral fellowship must have been awarded their Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2020. Candidates can submit an application for a post-doctoral fellowship as long as they submit their dissertation no later than June 1st, 2024.
Applications for a doctoral fellowship from doctoral students at the Hebrew University can only be accepted if the applicant is in good standing with the Authority for Research Students and has not exceeded the limits for funding established by the University.
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 6,000 NIS for post-doctoral fellowships or 5,500 NIS for doctoral fellowships. 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 A letter of application Research proposal (3-5 pages) Curriculum Vitae One example of written work, max. 30 pages Two letters of recommendation Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma
All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.
Applications should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System:
http://scholarships.huji.ac.il (the call for applications can be seen under: select faculty > Humanities).
Applications must be submitted by April 7, 2024. Decisions will be made within two months and applicants will be informed accordingly.
frmrc_call_for_applications_2024-2025.pdf
frmrc_ausschreibung_2024-2025.pdf
Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature & Cultural History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin Building, Mount Scopus Jerusalem 91905
Phone: +972-2-588 1909
rosenzweig@mail.huji.ac.il
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Call for Applications 2023/2024
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Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Fellowship Program
Call for Applications
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships
for the academic year 2023-2024
Fellowship Theme:
The German-Jewish Quotidian
For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships devoted to research on “The German-Jewish Quotidian.” Over the last decades, scholars of German-Jewish Studies have come to recognize the domain of the “everyday” as broadening the horizons of our understanding of the richness of German-Jewish life philosophically, aesthetically, and historically, and as allowing for the problematization of long-standing distinctions between elites and masses, and between high and popular culture. Our intention is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including history, philosophy, literature, and cultural studies, whose different perspectives on the study of German-Jewish everyday life, ordinary language, and popular culture will engender fruitful research and scholarly discussion. We envision literary projects, for example, that study the rise of the popular novel in German-Jewish circles, or letter-writing and feuilleton composition as literary forms. We foresee projects that explore the everyday in the arts, or inquire into the role of Jews in cultural movements such as social realism and the neue Sachlichkeit. We invite projects that address matters of German-Jewish daily life such as domestic structure and routine, everyday German-Jewish language (between German and Yiddish), youth culture and public education; as well as everyday gender roles and sexual identity in both private and public spheres. Projects on German-Jewish home, street and holiday cultural venues like the salon and coffeehouse, the market and the public bath, are encouraged. We likewise invite projects investigating the return to the everyday in German-Jewish thought, including the celebration of the truth of the ordinary as a response to post-Kantian Idealism, and everyday Jewish theology as expressed in developments in synagogue liturgy. We are interested in a range of historical studies of the German-Jewish quotidian, for example, in German Zionist training programs in agriculture and home economics. Finally, research projects devoted to everyday life under Nazi rule, or to the debate over the “banality” of the Nazi extermination program, are invited. The Center’s interests in the year’s theme are broad and interdisciplinary, and we encourage scholars of German-Jewish Studies across the humanities to apply.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2023 through June 2024. During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to contribute research on the year’s scholarly theme in the context of the seminar, workshops, and through publication in the Center’s journal.
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 their Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2019. Candidates can submit an application for a post-doctoral fellowship as long as they submit their dissertation no later than June 1st, 2023.
Applications for a doctoral fellowship from doctoral students at the Hebrew University can only be accepted if the applicant is in good standing with the Authority for Research Students and has not exceeded the limits for funding established by the University.
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 6,000 NIS for post-doctoral fellowships or 5,500 NIS for doctoral fellowships. 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 A letter of application Research proposal (3-5 pages) Curriculum Vitae One example of written work, max. 30 pages Two letters of recommendation Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma
All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.
Applications should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System:
http://scholarships.huji.ac.il (the call for applications can be seen under: select faculty > Humanities).
Applications must be submitted by April 3, 2023. Decisions will be made within two months and applicants will be informed accordingly.
cfa_-_franz_rosenzweig_minerva_research_center_doctoral_and_postdoctoral_fellowships_2023-2024.pdf
frmrc_ausschreibung_2023-2024_01.pdf
frmrc_call_for_applications_2023-2024.pdf
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Call for Applications 2022/2023
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Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Fellowship Program
Call for Applicants
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships
for the academic year 2022-2023
2022-2023 Fellowship Theme:
German Jews and the Arts:
Composition, Contemplation, Critique
For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships devoted to research on the theme of “German Jews and the Arts: Composition, Contemplation, Critique.” Our intention is to bring together scholars from a myriad disciplinary perspectives, including history (especially art history), philosophy (especially aesthetics and critical theory), and literature, whose different perspectives on the study of German-speaking Jews and the arts will engender fruitful research and scholarly discussion. By composition, we mean to flag projects that study German-Jewish involvement in artistic production of all kinds; by contemplation we mean to invite studies of artistic experience within German-Jewish contexts; by critique we intend studies of the theorization of the arts among German-Jewish thinkers and critics. Applications might propose projects that reconstruct the biographies of German-Jewish artists; that explore German-Jewish invention and technique in any artistic medium, especially in music, the visual arts, poetry, film, and the performing arts; that study German-Jewish contexts for the experience and appreciation of art (e.g., music or poetry performed in the synagogue); that trace German-Jewish participation in artistic movements from the Enlightenment, through romanticism, to modernism and beyond; or that examine the identification of Jews with aesthetic labels (e.g., degenerate art) in the German context. Applicants might address questions in aesthetics regarding notions of the beautiful or of the possibility of aesthetic norms; of representation, symbolism, and the artistic production of meaning; of the implications of the Jewish ban on idolatry; of art and the emotions; of artistic formalism and of the possibility of convergence between different artistic media; and of the relationship between art and truth, on the one hand, and art and morality, on the other. Scholars might propose projects which engage in the political function of art; in critiques of reification and fetichism; in distinctions between high and low art; and in the place of art in mass culture and fashion; as well as in the pedagogical or commemorative function of the arts for German-speaking Jews. The Center’s interests in the year’s theme are broad and interdisciplinary, and we encourage scholars of German-Jewish culture across the humanities to apply.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2022 through June 2023. During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to contribute research on the year’s scholarly theme in the context of the seminar, workshops, and through publication in the Center’s journal.
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 their Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2018. Candidates can submit an application for a post doctoral fellowship as long as they submit their dissertation no later than June 1st, 2022.
Applications for a doctoral fellowship from doctoral students at the Hebrew University can only be accepted if the applicant is in good standing with the Authority for Research Students and has not exceeded the limits for funding established by the University.
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 6,000 NIS for postdoctoral fellowship or 5,500 NIS for doctoral fellowship. 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:
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Application Form
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A letter of application
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Research proposal (3-5 pages)
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Curriculum Vitae
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One example of written work, max. 30
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pages Two letters of recommendation
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Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma
All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.
Applications should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System:
http://scholarships.huji.ac.il
Applications must be submitted by April 2, 2022. Decisions will be made within two months and applicants will be informed accordingly.
cfa_-_franz_rosenzweig_minerva_research_center_doctoral_and_postdoctoral_fellowships_2022-2023.pdf
franz_rosenzweig_minerva_research_center_ausschreibung_-_2022-2023.pdf
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Call for Applications 2021/2022
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Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Fellowship Program
Call for Applications
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships
for the academic year 2021/22
2021-2022 Fellowship Theme:
Theological-Political Predicaments: Representations of Religion and Politics in the German-Jewish Context
For the 2021-2022 academic year, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships devoted to research on the theme of “Theological-Political Predicaments: Representations of Religion and Politics in the German-Jewish Context.” Our intention is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to literature, history, philosophy, and political theory, whose different perspectives on this shared theme will engender fruitful research and scholarly discussion. Applications might propose projects that explore theopolitical visions and their attempted realizations; the religious politics of German-Jewish communities; literary, artistic, and performative representations of the interface between religion and politics; political messianism; the literary and artistic production of religious texts; theories and practices of secularization; gender roles and rights in Jewish communities; and the debate between political theology and political philosophy in the German-Jewish context. The Center’s interests in the year’s theme are broad and interdisciplinary, and we encourage scholars of German-Jewish culture across the humanities to apply.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2021 through June 2022. During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to contribute research on the year’s scholarly theme in the context of the seminar, workshops, and through publication in the Center’s journal.
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 their Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2017. Candidates can submit an application for a post doctoral fellowship as long as they submit their dissertation no later than June 1st, 2021.
Applications for a doctoral fellowship from doctoral students at the Hebrew University can only be accepted if the applicant is in good standing with the Authority for Research Students and has not exceeded the limits for funding established by the University.
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 6,000 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:
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Application Form
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A letter of application
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Research proposal (3-5 pages)
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Curriculum Vitae
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One example of written work, max. 30
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pages Two letters of recommendation
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Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma
Applications must be submitted by April 4, 2021. Decisions will be made within two months and applicants will be informed accordingly.
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
Phone: 00972-2-588 1909
rosenzweig@mail.huji.ac.il
All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.
Applications should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System:
http://scholarships.huji.ac.il (the call for applications can be seen under: select faculty > Humanities).
call_for_applications_rosenzweig_doctoral_and_postdoctoral_fellowships_2021-2022_englishgerman.pdf
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Call for Applications 2020/2021
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Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center Fellowship Program
Call for Applications
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center
for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History
at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships
for the academic year 2020/21
2020-2021 Fellowship Theme:
Language, Translation, and Cultural Transfer
in the German-Jewish Experience
For the 2020-2021 academic year, the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships devoted to research on the theme of “Language, Translation, and Cultural Transfer in the German-Jewish Experience.” Our intention is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to literature, history, philosophy, and cultural studies, whose different perspectives on this shared theme will engender fruitful research and scholarly discussion. Applications might propose projects that explore German-Jewish theories of language or translation; studies of poetics or of literary or theatrical performance in the German-Jewish context; or historical studies of the transfer of cultural objects, practices, and ideas among different social, intellectual, or political contexts. The Center’s interests in the year’s theme are broad and interdisciplinary, and we encourage scholars of German-Jewish culture across the humanities to apply.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2020 through June 2021. During this period the fellows are expected to conduct their research in Israel and to contribute research on the year’s scholarly theme in the context of the seminar, workshops, and through publication in the Center’s journal.
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 their Ph.D. no earlier than October 01, 2016. Candidates can submit an application for a post doctoral fellowship as long as they submit their dissertation no later than June 1st, 2020.
Applications for a doctoral fellowship from doctoral students at the Hebrew University can only be accepted if the applicant is in good standing with the Authority for Research Students and has not exceeded the limits for funding established by the University.
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 6,000 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 A letter of application
All material can be written either in English, German or Hebrew.
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Research proposal (3-5 pages)
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Curriculum Vitae
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One example of written work, max. 30 pages
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Two letters of recommendation
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Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma
Applications should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System:
http://scholarships.huji.ac.il (the call for applications can be seen under: select faculty > Humanities).
Applications must be submitted until April 30, 2020. Decisions will be made within two months and applicants will be informed accordingly.
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
Phone: 00972-2-588 1909
rosenzweig@mail.huji.ac.il
cfa_-_franz_rosenzweig_minerva_research_center_doctoral_and_postdoctoral_fellowships_2020-2021.pdf
franz_rosenzweig_minerva_research_center_ausschreibung_-_2020-2021.pdf
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Call for Applications 2019/2020
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We are pleased to announce that the Rosenzweig Minerva Center will grant 3 doctoral \ post doctoral fellowships in the following academic year: 2019/2020
cfa_frmrc_2019-20.pdf
