Online and open access to archival resources is more important now than ever in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center is happy to announce the following collections are available on ExploreUK.
The Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton announces the availability of a studentship to support a doctoral candidate working on any aspect of Jewish/non-Jewish relations throughout ages.
The similar sociologies of Islam and Judaism have given rise to two comparable religious feminist movements in the 1970s (Roded, 2012). They deal with the textual foundations as well as the religious practices of their faith communities. Despite the similarities between Islamic and Jewish religious feminisms, there are significant differences between the two movements, such as their global and Middle Eastern manifestations.
The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University is pleased to present the Digitized Database of Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey, in Memory of Prof. Bernard Lewis z"l. The database is the culmination of many years of dedicated research by Prof. Minna Rozen, and it provides access to a truly unique collection which combines digital images and textual content of over 61,000 Jewish gravestones from a variety of communities in Turkey from 1583 until 1990.
Call for Papers for an Edited Book:
Rethinking Modern Jewish History and Memory Through Photography
Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University) and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (ASU)
Call for Proposals—Special Issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society on Jews, Race and Fatness, guest edited by Abby Gondek (abbygondek@outlook.com)
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 22 June 2020 to 29 June 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Mideast-Politics. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
JEWISH HISTORY / STUDIES
Call for Papers for an Edited Book on
Western Galilee College -Holocaust Studies Program
Virtual conversations with Holocaust Researchers, hosting
Prof. Christopher Browning: Revisiting the Perpetrators : A look at the origins and post-publication history of Ordinary Men
Wednesday 15.07.2020, 19:00 Israel time and 12:00 AM East coast time USA.
Participation is free but registration is needed here:
