Nevzlin Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the Academic Years 2025/27
Theme for 2025-2027:
The Lives and Geographies of Jews Under Communist Rule and After
The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center invites applications for one post-doctoral fellowship (Nevzlin Fellowship) for the 2025-2027 academic years (from October 2025 to September 2027) to promote research on the theme of “The Lives and Geographies of Jews Under Communist Rule and After.”
We welcome the applications of scholars from across a variety of disciplines, with the aim of widening current perspectives on this theme and engendering fruitful research and scholarly discussion. We encourage applicants to explore the Nevzlin Center's website to review the research projects that have been or are currently the focus of the Center's interests: https://nevzlincenter.huji.ac.il/projects. We invite applicants to propose various topics including (though not limited to):
- Jews within state/governmental and party administrations
- Jews as ‘objects’ of the regimes’ policies
- Jewish subjectivity (Jewish life, self-perceptions, and self-documentation under Communist or post-Communist regimes)
- Literary and other genres of productivity in the arts
- Jewish migration out of Eastern and East Central Europe from the second half of the 20th century and other transnational perspectives on Jews under Communism or afterwards.
The Nevzlin Fellow will be expected to carry out her/his research at the Leonid Nevzlin Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2025 through September 2027 (two academic years, subject to review and renewal after the first year). Extension of the fellowship for a third year may be possible under certain circumstances, but this would require an application and approval by the Center’s academic committee. During this period, the fellow is expected to conduct her/his research primarily in Israel and present her/his work in guest lectures, Center workshops and conferences, and by preparing 2-3 peer-reviewed articles for scholarly publications. The Nevzlin Fellow should excel in research abilities and academic initiative and is expected to be actively involved in the Center’s activities. Knowledge of at least one East European language is required.
Preference will be given to candidates who completed their PhD no earlier than October 2020. Candidates who have not yet received their doctoral degree may apply provided they produce an official letter of approval of their dissertation no later than August 1, 2025.
We welcome applicants from all countries and nationalities.
The Nevzlin Fellow will be granted a monthly stipend of NIS 10,000 and an annual research budget of NIS 7,000. An international fellowship recipient must arrange for full health insurance coverage for her/his entire stay in Israel.
Applicants must submit:
- An application form
- A letter including a statement of intent, a description of applicant’s expertise and training in her/his research field and academic initiative
- Research proposal (up to 5 pages), including research description, work plan for two years, names of one or more Israeli scholars with whom the candidate intends to interact during the postdoctoral research period and a list of archival or other collections in Israel that the candidate intends to use
- Two tentative proposals for workshops, conferences, or other academic/public programs that the candidate would like to organize during the postdoc period (each suggestion should be up to one-page long)
- Curriculum vitae, including list of publications
- One published writing sample, max. 35 pages
- Two letters of recommendation, submitted by the recommender directly to the Nevzlin Center
- Official M.A. or Doctoral Diploma or letter of confirmation
All material must be written in English by the candidate (not prepared through the use of AI technology) and should be submitted through the HUJI Scholarships System at the link: http://hss.huji.ac.il/ .
Please register as a new external candidate, sign in with your new password, and then find and select our grant under:
Select faculty > Humanities; select scholarship or award > Nevzlin Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship.
Applications must be submitted by December 15, 2024.
The winning application (as well as the other short-listed applications) will be announced by the end of January 2025.
For further inquiries: merkaznev@savion.huji.ac.il