The Center for Jewish History offers fellowships to senior scholars through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The awards support original research at CJH in the humanities, including but not limited to Jewish studies, Russian and East European studies, American studies and Germanic studies, as well as musicology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and history. Deadline for applications: December 15, 2010.

A symposion has been organized on "Jewish Migration to the Metropolises of Europe, 1848-1918. A comparative Perspective" in the Jewish Museum Vienna and the Springer Academy. The second part of the symposium will take place at www.springer-schloessl.at. You can download the program folder here.

Historical scholarship has in recent years placed new emphasis on leisure activities as a research subject with tremendous potential to teach us a great deal about values, social connections, and everyday life. The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook will devote a section of the 2011 volume to essays on Jewish Leisure Activities in German-Speaking Europe from early modern times to the Nazi period. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2009.