Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

09/04/2026

Apply now for the 2027 HBI Research Award. Application closes soon!

📣 The 2027 HBI Research Awards application is now open! The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute awards grants each year to support research and artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s and gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers.

🗓️ Apply by September 8, 2026

https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs/research/index.html

H-Judaic Association for Jewish Studies Association for Israel Studies

09/01/2026

Experience the music of Israeli legend Yoni Rechter at The Vilna on September 17!

A composer, pianist, singer, and arranger whose work has shaped the soundtrack of Israeli life for more than 40 years, Yoni Rechter brings his music and stories to the stage for an intimate evening of music and conversation. Register today: https://vilnashul.org/events/event/yoni-rechter-retrospective?utm_source=video&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yoni

Part of our Studio Israel series, in partnership with the Brandeis Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.

08/20/2026

Brandeis Students! Announcing the opening of Beginning Yiddish, YDSH 10a, M-Th, 9:05–9:55 am. Enroll in YDSH 10a now to start learning this fascinating language and the exciting story of the rich culture behind it.

Meet the instructor, Dr. Emma Breslow https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IrueMTJn3aN70X6phFLlB48T6kbV7UeG/view?usp=sharing

Brandeis University Brandeis University Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department

08/11/2026

This fall’s Brandeis University course, “America and its Jews at 250”, taught by 29 experts in their fields including Flora Cassen, Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and HBI Director Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, is open to the public with an online component. Sign up soon!

From my immigrant perspective, the openness to invention and new ideas is unique in the world. That pluralism is essential to protect.

08/09/2026

Congratulations to Janine Holc, Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland, on receiving a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to support her project exploring autograph albums created and exchanged by Jewish girls and women during the Holocaust (1940–1945), “Autograph Albums as Holocaust Objects”.

Holc is the award-winning author of “The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust” (HBI Series on Jewish Women, Brandeis University Press, 2023) about the forced labor and survival networks of 3000 Jewish girls and women in the Schmelt camps during the Holocaust. We were honored to speak with Holc, together with historian Joanna Michlic, about the "The Weavers" in the Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series. We look forward to more of Prof. Holc's important research.

Janine Holc (Loyola University Maryland) was awarded a $140,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to support the project “Autograph Albums as Holocaust Objects.” Read more here.

08/07/2026

The HBI Research Awards support research or artistic projects in Jewish women’s and gender studies. Apply soon, application closes September 8.

📣 The 2027 HBI Research Awards application is now open! The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute awards grants each year to support research and artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s and gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers.

🗓️ Apply by September 8, 2026

https://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/programs/research/index.html

H-Judaic Association for Jewish Studies Association for Israel Studies

08/07/2026

HBI Research Associate Celene Ibrahim, PhD joins Reverend Gloria Hammond-White, Co-Pastor of Bethel AME Church, and Rabbi Rachel Adelman of Hebrew College on Thursday, Sept. 17, 7 pm for this Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum conversation exploring the roles of women in religious texts as archetypes for faith, leadership, and bravery. Moderated by Diana Seave Greenwald, Gardner Museum exhibition curator, “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt”, on view now through January 2027.

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/calling-esther-across-ages?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwThsBJwZG9mBWZkaWQWUL-Ok5hfIMUIcfweZQbwSa4LcIn8nmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7RKOrp-84hGlB67VwtfOkCylmXUfLS0XzeADYMlrQKJafU9KGsJCMAqG_uZQ_aem_7dv_zme3J1i--ZiB-bQFIg

Who was Esther and what has been her legacy across time? Join us for a conversation with leading female religious leaders and scholars exploring the roles of women in religious texts as archetypes for faith, leadership, and bravery.

08/06/2026

New in the AJS Career Center: The 2027 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Awards application is now open.

The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute/HBI awards grants each year to support research and artistic projects centered on Jewish women’s and gender studies. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers.

Apply by September 8, 2026.

Find this and other Jewish Studies opportunities in the AJS Career Center: https://myajs.associationforjewishstudies.org/careers/jobs/search