Rothschild PhD funding opportunity

Doctoral fellowships in Jewish Studies. Students entering their first year of doctoral study can apply for grants of up to £16,000 per year for up to three years. Students in later years of a doctoral programme may apply for shorter periods of funding. Applicants must demonstrate that their application has the support of their proposed supervisor, who should provide one of the references (see the academic interests of staff at Manchester). Deadline: 11 Feb 2016. Further information.

Rothschild Fellowship opportunity

Call for proposals for post-doctoral fellowship. The Rothschild Foundation Europe offers a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies for two years for up to £32,500 p.a. (in the UK, this equates to a part-time position). The Foundation only allows one application per institution, and so there will be an internal selection process for The University of Manchester. Internal deadline: 8 Jan 2016. Further information.

PhD completion

Michelle Magin on Holocaust Representation. The Centre would like to congratulate Michelle Magin on the successful defence of her doctoral thesis 'Toward a Globalised Memory of the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Exhibition Spaces and Educational Programmes at Four Sites of Remembrance in Post-Unification Berlin'. Her supervisor was Dr Cathy Gelbin and the external examiner was Prof. Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent). See the list of current PhD students in the area of Jewish Studies at Manchester.

Modern Hebrew for Beginners

Tuition in Modern Hebrew for classroom and/or video-conferencing modes. The University of Manchester is offering places for Beginner's Modern Hebrew (MEST10212) for those who wish to audit the course (i.e. participate without formal assessment). The cost is £545 for an eleven week course, 5 hours per week. Students can attend the university class in person or by video-conferencing - the University is piloting a system that allows the student (via a computer with camera/microphone and without any special software) to attend and participate in the same class via a swivl robot and video-conference link. Further information.

New Publication

Contribution to volume of essays on Midrash. Katharina Keim, 'The Role of Small forms in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer' in It’s better to hear the rebuke of the wise than the song of fools (Qoh 7:5), ed. W. David Nelson & Rivka Ulmer, Vol. 6, Judaism in Context 18 (Gorgias Press), 153-178. Further information.

Conference paper, SBL, Atlanta

Paper on Midrash. At the Society of Biblical Literature Annual meeting in Atlanta in Nov 2015, Katharina Keim presented a paper to the Midrash Section entitled 'The Thematic Exposition of Bible in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer' on Sunday 22 November. Further information.