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Jewish studies scholar and pug enthusiast. Leonard J. Milberg ’53 Professor in American Jewish Studies @Princeton University, President Association for Jewish Studies

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Fellowship The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.

Posen library fellowships! www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship?f...

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Home | October 27 Archive

Third Annual Fine Fellowship for the Study of the 10/27/18 Synagogue Attack
This $4000 fellowship will provide funding for a scholar to travel to Pittsburgh and work with the repository of materials related to the attack and its aftermath. More info: www.jewishstudies.pitt.edu/fine-fellows...

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Summer School on Jewish Studies | Jewish Studies "on Edge" | Summer School | Antwerp Summer University | University of Antwerp Jewish Studies summer school

Advanced Summer School for Graduate Students in Jewish Studies: Jewish Studies "On Edge"
July 5, 2026 - July 10, 2026
Belgium

Apply here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/summer-wi... . Applications due April 1, 2026

katz.sas.upenn.edu/education/st...

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Colonial Bookseller Benjamin Gomez: The books tell the story - American Jewish Historical Society One of the earliest Jewish publishers/booksellers in America was Benjamin Gomez, who had a bookshop in downtown New York City. He came from a prominent Sephardic family and was a fourth-generation Ame...

Ever wonder what books Jews in colonial New York printed and sold? Check out this wonderful blog post by Megan Scauri about Benjamin Gomez, one of the members of Congregation Shearith Israel - The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue

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Circa 1776 in Context | The Jewish Museum

Please join me for "Circa 1776 in Context: Jews in Colonial America"
Apr. 30, 2026
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Scheuer Auditorium, Jewish Museum

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I, too, would like to eat your breakfast 🧇

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School was closed today due to the storm but Shuugs zoomed into class with me.

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This was the home of Lionel Moses and Selina Seixas.

These brownstones are no longer there, but here is a non-blizzard view of same block in 1921
"Manhattan: 97th Street - Central Park West" Photographic views of New York City, NYPL Digital Collections. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f208f1...

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Today's historical tidbit: Jewish family's house on the UWS during the Blizzard of 1888, March 11-14 of that year. Snowfall from blizzard was from 10 to 58 inches in the region with snowdrifts of up to 50 feet.

Photo 44, Photographs (Box 3, Folder 3). Moses family of New York papers P-1. AJHS.

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Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World

Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna
mary.newman.14@ucl.ac.uk r.banna@ucl.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London

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JQR Enters the Open Era In a letter to readers in the winter issue, the editors usher in open access

JQR Enters the Open Era

In a letter to readers in the winter issue, the editors of the Jewish Quarterly Review, Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Myers usher in open access.

katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

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JQR Enters the Open Era In a letter to readers in the winter issue, the editors usher in open access

JQR Enters the Open Era

Beginning with this issue (JQR 116.1, Winter 2026), the journal will shift away from its subscription model to become diamond-level open access.

katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

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Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education

The Impact of Everyday Antisemitism

Learning About Learning | The Impact of Everyday Antisemitism with Yael Silverstein

Free and open to the public. Via Zoom. Registration is required at www.brandeis.edu/mandel/event... @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social

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Fellow Seminar Calendar Fellow Seminar Calendar

CJH Spring 2026 Fellow Seminar in Jewish History (hybrid)
are held in the Kovno-Shavl room at the Center for Jewish History (CJH), 15 W. 16th St. New York, NY 10011, on Wednesdays 10–11:30am, in a hybrid format. RSVP is required.

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2026 Faculty Seminar on Religion and the Holocaust: American Religious Response to the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The 2026 Annual Faculty Seminar on Religion and the Holocaust will explore American religious responses to the Holocaust from a variety of faith traditions.

CfA: USHMM In-Person Faculty Seminar: American Religious Responses to the Holocaust, July 20 - 24, 2026 (deadline March 20, 2026)

Applications must be submitted by March 20th. Full CfA and application can be found on our website.

www.ushmm.org/research/opp....

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Fellowships - American Jewish Historical Society Fein & Lapidus Fellowship Application deadline, March 31, 2026.Winners will be notified by April 30th, 2026. Fein Lapidus Fellowship Application Eligibility: Fellowships may be awarded to graduate stu...

Call for Applications: Fein/Lapidus and Frankel Fellowships, American Jewish Historical Society

Application: Send as an email to info@ajhs.org with the subject line “Fein Lapidus Fellowship 2026 Application” by Tuesday, March 31st, 2026. T

ajhs.org/scholars/fel...

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Shabbat Shalom! May your day be filled with rest, peace, and sweetness! 💐

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Teaching Assistant Professor in History - Stevens Point, Wisconsin job with University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point | 37944779 The School of Humanities and Global Studies is committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and socially just community. We are seeking...

FEATURED JOB: University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point - Teaching Assistant Professor in History

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Economic History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

FEATURED JOB: Tulane University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in American Jewish Economic History

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in the American Jews-Israel Relationship - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

FEATURED JOB: Tulane University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in the American Jews–Israel Relationship

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Call for Applications: Visiting PhD Fellowships 2026/2027 The Jacob Robinson Institute is offering up to two visiting PhD fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year. We welcome doctoral candidates from non-Israeli universities whose research aligns with the Institute’s thematic areas, including minority politics, national self-determination, collective and individual rights, reparation for grave human rights abuses, Israel's statehood and diaspora relations, forced displacement, human rights and humanitarianism, as well as democracy and the rule of law.

FEATURED JOB: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights - Call for Applications: Visiting PhD Fellowships and Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2026/2027! The Jacob Robinson Institute

hum.huji.ac.il/news/call-ap...

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Charles E. Scheidt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention - Binghamton, New York, United States job with Binghamton University | 37947297 About Binghamton University: Binghamton University is a premier public R1 research institution in the State University of New York (SUNY)...

FEATURED JOB: Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention - Charles E. Scheidt Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

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FEATURED JOB: North Carolina Museum of Art - Curatorial Fellow - Initiative for Jewish Art and Culture. Applications must be received by Wednesday, April 15, 2026. A decision will be announced by Monday, June 1, 2026. More information and application at
recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J...

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Conferences & CFP The Center for Material Culture Studies organizes two major events on a regular basis: the CMCS Triennial Conference in Material Culture, led by University of Delaware faculty hosting external spea…

Call for Papers

University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture

April 2-3, 2027

“What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture”

Please send abstracts of max. 300 words, with brief CV of no more than two pages, by July 15, 2026 mcb@udel.edu

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Living in Tracy Chapman’s House Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.

Jill Lepore writes about her post-college years spent in a communal house that lingered with the presence of a past roommate: the singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman.
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Sleepy Sunday morning 🛋️😴

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Loving this nineteenth-century African American schoolgirl embroidery from Philadelphia. "Olevia (or Olivia) Rebecca Parker worked this sampler when she was fourteen years old and studying at the Lombard Street School in Philadelphia." artsandculture.google.com/asset/needle...

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University of Denver Announces First Endowed Professorship in Holocaust and Antisemitism Awareness /PRNewswire/ -- On the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the University of Denver (DU) and its Center for Judaic Studies (CJS) are announcing a...

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Look whose gorgeous book is available for preorder!! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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This gorgeous Detail of terrestrial globe by Hannah Gibbons, c. 1817–1818 from the Westtown Quaker School. www.themagazineantiques.com/article/silk...

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