The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is pleased to present its Fellowship program. Two or three fellowships will be awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent study to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or Jerusalem.

January 4-8, 2016, Washington, DC

Applications due October 11, 2015

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the seminar “A Research Introduction to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.” This seminar will be held January 4–8, 2016, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

The 21st Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois, June 19 to July 1, 2016

Call for Fellows

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University invites applications for fellowships to participate in the 21st annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, from June 19 to July 1, 2016, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Exhibit Revealing Little-Known Model for Genocide Debuts in Eastern Europe October 1 to November 22, 2015

New EHRI partner, the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, in Vilnius, Lithuania, debuts the exhibit, "Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum - 10 Years of Investigations," from October 1 to November 22, 2015. Based on ten years of investigation by the international nonprofit organization, Yahad-In Unum and its founder, Father Patrick Desbois, the exhibit chronicles the lesser-known side of the Holocaust.

There is a great deal of interest worldwide in the documents of the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) about former victims of Nazi persecution and the liberated survivors. A small part of this collection, which since 2013 is inscribed onto the UNESCO “Memory of the World” register, can now be viewed in a new online archive. EHRI partner, the ITS has uploaded three collections in an initial step, including photos of personal objects that were taken from the prisoners in the concentration camps.

POLIN Research Fellowships for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Candidates

POLIN Museum’s Global Educational Outreach Program, supported by the William K. Bowes Jr Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, is offering up to six doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for three to five consecutive months in residence at POLIN Museum and the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH).

A first Workshop on Digital Humanities in Czech Republic took place on 24 September 2015 in Prague. Organized by the LINDAT/CLARIN Center, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic. The event was coordinated in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Prague and the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. With 65 officially registered guests, the workshop was very well attended by various stakeholders in the field. The workshop was opened by professor Eva Hajičová and an opening speech was held by Lukáš Levák, Director Department of Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

Works for the Foundation Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center (CDEC), Italy

Involved in EHRI since May 2015

I received my degree in Contemporary history at the Università Statale of Milan. My thesis concerned the Italian Zionists and the Italian diplomats dealing with the question of the future of Palestine during the First World War.

My PhD thesis was in Political science and concerned with the relations between the EEC and the State of Israel and the construction of the "image” of Israel by the European Institutions from 1957 to 1973.

For almost ten years I was involved in the activities of the Chair of Contemporary History at the Università Statale in Milan and, at the same time, with the Commission of History of International Relations.

Since 2000 Slovakia has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust and of racial persecution on 9 September. This specific day was chosen because of its symbolism: indeed on 9 September 1941 the government of the war-time Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945) issued Regulation No. 198/1941 Sl. z. on the Legal Status of Jews, commonly known also as the Jewish Code.

In the second phase of EHRI, that started in May this year, the EHRI Fellowships Programme has undergone considerable changes, all concerned with more flexibility. In the new programme, the call is not once a year, but has an open character, with cut-off dates to allow for evaluation. Fellows can request to stay between one to six weeks at the institution of their choice. This time no less than fifteen EHRI partner institutions offer fellowships. Although the EHRI fellowships programme especially would like to support PhD candidates with limited resources, fellowships are also available for researchers, archivists, and curators. Disciplines include historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists, conservationists, sociologists, musicologists, art historians, employees of memorial sites, and many more.

The EHRI Fellowships Call for 2016-2018 is already online.