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Posted 18 August 2005 | top

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The American Academy for Jewish Research invites applications for its annual post-doctoral fellowship. Graduate students in any field of Jewish Studies who will have defended the dissertation by June 30, 2005 may apply, as may holders of the Ph.D. who were awarded the degree in the five preceding academic years and who do not hold an academic appointment. Fellowships are $30,000 per annum, with the possibility of a renewal for a second year, and support research and teaching at any major North American university or other academic institution with a Jewish Studies program under the supervision of a mentor within that institution.

In evaluating applications for the Post-Doctoral Fellowship, consideration will be given to potential mutual benefit for both the fellow and the host institution. The host institution should be one at which the fellow will find resources that have not formerly been available to him or her, such as a mentor; other scholars, association with whom might potentially be fruitful for the fellow's academic development; archives or other research facilities. It should therefore not be the same institution from which the candidate received the Ph.D. The fellow will be responsible for teaching at least one course each semester.

Proposals should include:

  1. a curriculum vitae (in triplicate)
  2. a dissertation abstract (in triplicate)
  3. a research and teaching plan for the fellowship year, including the name of a senior scholar at the proposed host institution who would serve as sponsor. (in triplicate)
  4. Three letters of recommendation, one of which should be from the proposed sponsor, stating in general terms the activities and responsibilities of the candidate, should the fellowship be awarded.

Deadline for all materials, including recommendations: February 1, 2005
The successful candidate will be notified by April 1, 2005.

All materials should be sent to:

Prof. R. P. Scheindlin, Chair
AAJR Post-Doctoral Fellowship Committee
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
3080 Broadway
New York, NY10027

If you have questions, please contact Prof. Scheindlin via email at rascheindlin@jtsa.edu

Posted 16 July 2007 | top

BARON BOOK PRIZE

The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize, which is given to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish Studies, carries a cash award of $5,000.

Eligibility: An academic book, in English, in any area of Jewish Studies, published in 2007; the work must be the author's first book; the author must have received the Ph.D. degree within the last seven years.

Deadline: Submissions should be received by February 1, 2008. The winner will be announced by late spring, 2008.

When submitting a book for consideration, please have 3 copies of the book sent, along with a statement of when and from where the author received the Ph.D., to:

American Academy for Jewish Research
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia , PA 19106

If you have questions, please contact Prof. David Berger, chair of the Baron Prize committee, via email at dberger@gc.cuny.edu.

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The Baron Prize book award for 2006 was won by:

Beth Berkowitz
Execution and Invention: Death Penalty Discourse in Early Rabbinic and Christian Cultures
Oxford University Press, 2006.

Posted 15 June 2006 | top

WORKSHOP FOR EARLY CAREER FACULTY IN JEWISH STUDIES
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The American Academy for Jewish Research and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies announce a Workshop for Early Career Faculty in Jewish Studies to be held May 13–16, 2007 at the University of Michigan.

The workshop will be devoted to the enhancement of teaching and research of untenured scholars at the early stages of their careers in Jewish studies. The aims of the program are to develop ideas and methods of instruction in a supportive environment, stimulate scholarly research and writing, address questions of integrating personal and professional responsibilities, and create a community of scholars.

Sessions will focus on
  • scholarly presentations by all participants based on their current research
  • personal intellectual biographies
  • discussion of pedagogical and curricular issues
  • exploration of special challenges facing early career scholars

Workshop Director Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, specializes in American Jewish history.

Workshop Co-Director David Stern
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in Classical Jewish Literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Eligibility
The workshop is open to untenured full-time faculty who have launched their careers within the last seven years and who are working primarily in the field of Jewish Studies. All expenses at the University of Michigan will be paid. Participants are expected to turn first to their host institutions for transportation; in cases of special need they may apply for support.

Applicants must submit

  • a curriculum vitae
  • a course syllabus in Jewish studies that has been offered within the last five years
  • two letters of recommendation
  • a personal statement of their intellectual interests and goals as they relate to their present teaching and academic scholarship

Please submit these materials by November 10, 2006 to:

Deborah Dash Moore
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer Street; 2111 Thayer Bldg
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608

For further information, please email JudaicStudies@umich.edu or call 734 763-9047.

Posted March 7, 2001 | top

PUBLICATION SUBVENTIONS

The AAJR sponsors a limited subvention program for manuscripts that are of exceptionally high scholarly value but because of their complexity, very limited potential sales in relation to production costs, or some other cogent limiting factor would not be published by a reputable academic publisher without a modest subsidy. Requests on behalf of such manuscripts, where funds have been shown not to be available to the author from his or her university or other likely sources, will be considered by a committee of the Academy, as will unusual projects of particular merit, such as a newly conceived periodical. Authors who would like to submit a request for subvention of a manuscript should include:

  1. A letter describing the manuscript as fully as possible, along with the reports of the two readers who evaluated it for the press.
  2. A letter from the press, on its stationery, indicating acceptance of the manuscript for publication, a projected budget, and the need and amount of required subsidy.
  3. A letter of endorsement from a fellow of the Academy. (The author should review the list of fellows , select one whose field is close to that of the manuscript, contact the fellow, and ask that the letter be sent directly to the address below.)

These materials should be sent to:

Professor Michael A. Meyer
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
3101 CliftonAvenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220

Completed requests, with full documentation, should be submitted by November 1 of any given year. The Publications Subvention Committee will inform the applicant of its decision by the end of that calendar year.

PAST NEWS

Posted 15 April 2005 | top

Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2005-06 is Olga Borovaya. She earned her doctoral degree at the RussianStateUniversity for the Humanities.  She will spend next year at StanfordUniversity, under the direction of Prof. Aron  Rodrigue, where her field of research will be "New Forms of Ladino Cultural Production in the Ottoman Empire in the late-19th and early 20th-Centuries".

Posted 8 April 2004 | top

Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2004-05 is Rebecca Kobrin. She earned her doctoral degree at University of Pennsylvania. She will be spending next year at New YorkUniversity under the direction of Prof. David Engel. Her field of research is modern Jewish history.

Posted 21 May 2003 | top

The Baron Prize book awards for 2003 were won by:

Peter Eli Gordon
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
(The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies Weimar and Now; 33)
University of California Press, 2003

Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires
(Modern Jewish Experience (Bloomington, Ind.))
Indiana University Press, 2004

Posted 21 May 2003 | top

The Baron Prize Committee has selected for the 2002 prize: Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia by ChaeRan Freeze, published by New England Press.

Posted 25 April 2003 | top

Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2003-04 is Yitzhak Melamed. During the coming year, he will be engaged in research on Avraham Cohen Herrera and on Spinoza, at Yale University and at City University of New York.

Posted 9 May 2002 | top

Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2002-03 is: Dr. Maria Baader. During the coming academic year Dr. Baader will be engaged in research at the University of Toronto on the topic "Business, Bildung, and Family Bonds: Gender and Middle-Class Formation among Nineteenth Century German Jews".

Posted 25 April 2002 | top

The Baron Prize Committee has selected for the 2001 prize: Milton and the Rabbis. Hebraism, Hellenism, & Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson, published by Columbia University Press.

Posted 17 October 2001 | top

1. Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2001-02 is: Isaac Hollander who earned his doctoral degree from Hebrew University. His doctoral thesis was on "Protection, Politics and the End of the Jewish-Muslim Experience in Lower Yemen, 1918-1948". He will be engaged in research in Toronto during the coming academic year.

2. The Baron Prize book awards for 2000 were won by:

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstruction of Biblical Gender
(Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences)
Stanford University Press, 2000

Mitchell Bryan Hart
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
(Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series)
Stanford University Press, 2000

Jonathan Klawans
Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism"
Oxford University Press, 2000

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