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Posen Foundation Fellows in the fields of
SECULAR JUDAISM AND JUDAISM AS CULTURE

Students and scholars in Israel may apply for the following:

The Posen Foundation is pleased to announce that grant applications for research fellowships in the fields of Secular Judaism and Judaism as Culture are being accepted. The 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.



The 2009 deadline for submitting applications will be posted at a later date.

For more information, contact lamda@netvision.net.il

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