We're hiring! 🦚 In geveb is seeking to hire a new member of our editorial team who will take an active role in the collaborative work of the journal. The new position will average between 5-7 hours a week, depending on the availability and interest of the applicant.

Call for Applications: In geveb is seeking a Peer Review Editorial Associate | In geveb

This position is for the 2026-2027 academic year, with the possibility of renewal.

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Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

#Chancen | Nachwuchsförderung des Netzwerks Historische Wissens- und Gebrauchsliteratur für Digitalisierungsprojekte | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #Digitalisierung #Quellen #Förderung Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Dezember 2026

#CfA for our 2027 Augustin Hirschvogel #Fellowship. We invite #historians, #geographers, #cartographers, #arthistorians and scholars in related fields w/ focus on Eastern or #SoutheastEurope to apply. Research stay of up to 4 weeks. 🗓️ Deadline: September 30, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

On Aug. 5th, I'll lead a Lower East Side walking tour for YIVO "In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers." We'll learn about the Yiddish press and some of the best-known women writers, as well as some of the protagonists of my latest research. @uclhjs.bsky.social www.yivo.org/Women-Writer...

In the Footsteps of Yiddish Women Writers: A Walking Tour | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

In this Lower East Side walking tour led by Dr. Sonia Gollance, participants will visit sites associated with both celebrated and less-familiar women writers.

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Thanks to Jake Schneider for his article in Yiddish in the Forverts (@forward.com) about the London Yiddish Shpilers and the sold-out "Yiddish Theatre Reboot." Wonderful to see our new troupe getting such a positive (and thoughtful) reception. @uclhjs.bsky.social forward.com/yiddish/8408...

Experimenting with translation on today’s Yiddish stage

די „לאָנדאָנער ייִדיש־שפּילערס“ פּרוּוון אױס פֿאַרשיידענע מעטאָדן צוצוהעלפֿן די צוקוקער וואָס קענען נישט קיין ייִדיש.

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Delighted to announce that I'll be a Fordham-CJH Short-Term Fellow in NYC in Spring 2027. I'll be researching my next monograph on Yiddish plays by women (mostly at the Center for Jewish History) and will give a public talk at Fordham University. @uclhjs.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

🎭 Applications are NOW OPEN for our Jewish Playwrights Programme! Our autumn 2026/27 cohort will be led by the extraordinary Julia Pascal, the first woman to direct at the National Theatre with 24 plays to her name. ⏰ Apply by 3 August, 5pm BST: shorturl.at/UjOhk

We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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Leib Malach's "Mississippi" is important play about the Scottsboro Affair that demonstrates how Yiddish intellectuals grappled with American racial violence. Available now in Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint's translation. @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social yivo-institute.myshopify.com/products/mis...

Mississippi: A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair

By Leib MalachEdited by Alyssa Quint Translated by Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint Bloomsbury Publishing in partnership with YIVO Published in 2026 128 pages, 8 x 5 in Paperback In their English trans...

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The Yiddish world lost celebrated actor Refoyel Goldwaser z"l this week. Here, an interview with Boris Sandler for the Yiddish Forverts (@forward.com), with subtitles and clips from Goldwaser's one-man play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpg3...

A Guest at the Forverts -- Yiddish Actor Rafael Goldwaser

YouTube video by Forverts

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Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...

I'm so glad to share the CFP for the Eleventh conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Link to the full CFP  www.iaspr.org/conferences/... Please share with your cool academic circles! #popularromancestudies #romance #CFP #AcademicSky @iaspr.bsky.social

Odysseus Wasn’t Real. But He Had Real Worshipers in Ancient Ithaca. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...

Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus (Gift Article)

The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.

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Delighted to chair this excellent panel and learn about new research on UK dance spaces (among other topics).

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Wonderful morning of papers on Anglo-Jewish domestic spaces from Sophie Bellamy @durhamhistory.bsky.social, Daniel Lichman @lbilondon.bsky.social and Keren Darmon @parkesinstitute.bsky.social; Larisa Zorlescu on 19th c Jewish Romania; Eline Van Erdewijk on colonial Algerian elections & antisemitism

English Heritage has unveiled a new blue plaque at 49 Hallam Street in Marylebone, marking Stefan Zweig’s former London home. The plaque recognises the Austrian Jewish writer’s years in exile in London, where he lived from 1936 to 1939 after fleeing Nazi Austria. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07...

After lunch, a lively roundtable on 'The Space and Place of Yiddishland: Real, Imagined, and Mediated' with @sgollance.bsky.social @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social @spinsker.bsky.social & Shachar Pinsker, and a paper by @ahofman.bsky.social on the third generation poetry of Swedish-Jewish Channa Riedel

Two Rooms by Jewish Museum London is the museum's new 'interim' space located at @jw3london.bsky.social jewishmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/two...

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A great opportunity for contingent and independent scholars of religion: $3000 stipend, one-week residency at The Ohio State University (travel and lodging covered), deliver a public lecture and interact OSU community. Deadline: August 15, 2026.

CSR Visiting Scholar Program – Call for Applications

Visiting Scholar – Call for Applications The Center for the Study of Religion at The Ohio State University is pleased to announce the continuation of our short-term visiting scholar program.

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CFP: Oxford Spinoza Conference 2027 – The Global Spinoza 13 May 2027, Pembroke College, Oxford To mark the 350th anniversary of Spinoza's death, we're inviting abstracts on the global reception of Spinoza's thought. Submit by 17 Nov 2026: osc@pmb.ox.ac.uk #Spinoza #Philosophy #Oxford

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!

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The Leo Baeck Institute London will be well represented at the British Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS) 2026 conference, which takes place next week at Birkbeck, University of London. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2026/07... @ankahajkova.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social

Come and spend the next academic year embedded in our curatorial teams Two exciting fellowships are open to postdoctoral, early-career researchers which can be undertaken over 12-months full-time or part-time equivalent, as part of the Joanna and Graham Barker Fellowship Scheme Find out more👇

📢 Call for Papers: 38th Annual W+iGS #Conference 📍Where: King's College London 📅6-7 November 2026 📝 Abstract deadline: 31 July 2026 Proposals from across the breadth of German Studies and from scholars at all career stages welcome! womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/w...

W+iGS 38th Annual Conference, King’s College London: Call for Papers

The annual Women+ in German Studies (W+iGS) members’ conference will take place at King’s College London from 6-7 November 2026. All events will be held in-person in King’s, with selected events be…

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The Women+ in German Studies Book Prize sponsored by #PeterLangOxford is now open for submissions! Please read more here, deadline 14 September: womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/w... @wigsblog.bsky.social

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

It's the penultimate day of #IMC2026 and our Summer Sale! For 48 hours more, enjoy 50% off all MUP titles. Discount applies at checkout, unless based in North America. North American customers, please enter discount code SUMMER50 at checkout. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

📣 A call for applications is now open for an EHRI Transnational Workshop taking this December The workshop - Documentation as Resistance: Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks - will take place at the Wiener Holocaust Library buff.ly/OwDg9Ae

There is something deeply early-modern-historian-funny about Spain's path through the knockout rounds involving Austria, Portugal, and Belgium in succession, with either France or Morocco waiting in the semifinal if they advance.

Juan José Ponce Vázquez@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 4w ago

There is always a Habsburg meme. One for quarter finals.