Open Call for Jewish Language Teaching Fellowships

These teaching posts are intended to offer Jewish Studies students learning opportunities not previously available at their institutions. The language skills they acquire through the newly offered classes should enable further research within the field of Jewish Studies at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Topics

• All topics within the broad field of Jewish Studies are considered eligible for the Foundation’s Jewish Studies grants. The Foundation particularly welcomes applications from those engaged in the study of contemporary Jewish life in Europe from a social science perspective and those whose proposals involve digital humanities research techniques.
• In principle, projects only tangentially related to Jewish Studies are unlikely to be successful, nor will projects devoted to an individual or individuals who happen to be Jewish, but whose historical importance is not significantly contingent on that biographical fact. Secondary school education, informal education and documentary films will not be funded within the context of the Academic Jewish Studies grant programme.

Funding Information

• Maximum award amount: £40,000 per annum
• Duration: 3 years

Eligible Costs

• In general, the salary cost for employing a Teaching Fellow as well as additional costs for teaching resources may be applied for within this grant category.

Ineligible Costs 

• Institutional overheads will not be funded which includes the costs of grant administration, maintaining, heating, and insuring the building in which your department is housed, as well as the taxes your university pays for that building.

Eligibility Criteria

• They welcome applications from any organisation or institutions based in Europe, EU and non-EU states alike, except for Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
• The organisation’s activities must be deemed charitable under UK charity law. This includes organisations which are either not-for-profit or publicly funded, such as universities.
• Applying institutions must already have an existing programme, centre and/or department of Jewish Studies that this new post would complement and enrich. The applicant must demonstrate the need for the proposed Jewish language (i.e. Biblical and Ancient Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, etc.) to be taught, and how instruction in this language will serve Jewish Studies students enrolled in the institution.
• If a fellowship candidate has been identified already, then the applicant should note his or her qualifications and describe why he or she is best placed to take on the role. The applicant will also be asked to explain whether external students (i.e. those not enrolled at the applying institution) might participate in the new language classes and, if they are able to, how this will be made possible.

For more information, visit Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe.