Posen Fellowships
The Posen Fellowship Program,
administered by Dr. Yedidya Yitzhaki and the Posen Foundation-Israel
office, grants fellowships to students and scholars at the doctoral,
post-doctoral and advanced levels from the Humanities, Social Sciences,
Education, and Arts faculties in Israeli universities. The recipients'
research topics are related to secularization processes, secularism and
modernization in Jewish life in the last 250 years, or political,
social, and ideological foundations of secularism and secularization
processes in Jewish history, culture and lifestyles.
To date,
Posen Fellowships have been granted to 19 researchers, who have already
produced doctoral dissertations, articles in academic journals, and
books. This body of research deals with a wide range of subjects, such
as the socio-economic and psychological aspects of secularism, the
Jewish world in the era of globalization, Shabbtaism as a starting
point for secular Jewish culture, and "heretical" late Neo-Hassidic
aspects in Hebrew literature.
Among the grant recipients are: Professor Ruth Kartun-Blum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is writing Forbidden Scriptures: Reflections on the Dialogue with the New Testament in Modern Israeli Literature; Professor Arie Naor of Ben-Gurion University, who is writing Zeev Jabotinsky's Secular Concept of Judaism; and Professor Noah Efron of Bar-Ilan University who is writing A
Passion for the Universal — Science and the Creation of
Twentieth-Century Secular Jewish Culture, Secular Jewish Culture and
the Creation of Twentieth-Century Science.
Please click here for the recipients of the Posen Foundation Fellowship Program for 2010.
The list of the recipients of the Posen Foundation Fellowship Program, including the topics of their research and a summary, for the years 2004-2010 is now available.
Grants will be awarded to students and scholars in Israel
at doctoral and post-doctoral levels from the humanities, social
sciences, education or arts, who are fully engaged with
well-established university departments able to research themes drawn
from the following fields:
- Modernization and secularization in Jewish life during the past 250
years, including: secularization of Jewish thought, historiography,
Biblical scholarship; the secularization of daily life, Jewish
politics, the emergence of modern national and social movements.
- Intellectual, political and social underpinning of secularism and
secularization in Jewish history, culture and way of life; linkages
between secularization and other related processes, such as
modernization, democratization, liberalization, pluralism,
globalization.
- Aspects and manifestations of Jewish secularism in the arts,
literature, lifestyle and practices. The renewal of Hebrew as a lay
language and of secular Hebrew literature; the rise and decline of the
secular Yiddish culture in Europe and in USA; aspects of secular
cultural experience in the pre-state Yishuv and in Israeli society;
Readings in Jewish traditional culture in a secular approach.
Ten grants will be awarded annually in the amount of $15,000 each.
Upon review, such grants could be renewed up to two more years.
Click here for the guidelines for applications.
For more information, contact lamda@netvision.net.il
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