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The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, an endowed program established at Harvard University in 1984, announces its latest competition for Harvard Academy postdoctoral fellowships. The Harvard Academy seeks outstanding scholars at the start of their academic careers whose work combines excellence in a social science discipline with a command of the language and…

The Center for Jewish Studies welcomes its new Director, Derek J. Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at the Department of History. Professor Penslar succeeds David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, who directed the CJS since 2016. We wish both the best…

Harvard Judaica’s Yiddish theater collections featured in Harvard Magazine  Read about Harvard Judaica’s Yiddish theater collections in Harvard Magazine’s “Treasures” column in the July/August issue….

The CJS is proud to introduce the new cohort of visitors who will be joining us for the 2023-2024 Academic year. Browse the Academic Visitors page to get acquainted with this wonderful group of Jewish studies scholars!…

Fellowships are open to researchers in all academic disciplines and supportresearch programs in Israel for up to 20 months (two academic years). Apply by September 15, 2023…

The fellowship provides significant funding, academic programming, and support to 24 international postdoctoral researchers, enabling them to carry out research in exact sciences, life sciences, humanities, and social sciences at eligible Israeli academic institutions. The online application system is set to open on September 1, 2023….

With the 2022-2023 academic year drawing to an end on May 31, we would like to wish lots of success and good luck to our 2022-2023 Starr Fellows. We celebrated their work over the past year at the Starr Symposium: “The Art of Jewish Studies” , and at our End of Year Reception. On May 3…

Please join us in welcoming our 2023-2024 Fellows. The Starr and Stroock Fellows are recent Ph.D. recipients working on topics in Jewish Migration in the 16th -21st centuries. The Faculty co-hosts for this cohort are: Stroock Fellows: Starr Fellows: Silver Fellow:…

On April 28, at the close of the 2022-2023 academic year, our new Modern Hebrew instructor Ran Bechor invited Yoni Rechter to a master class with all modern hebrew students. Thank you, Ran, for making this event possible! I recently had the pleasure of participating in one of the most amazing events in my time…