The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will award doctoral and post-doctoral research fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Fellowship Theme:
Emotions in the German-Jewish Experience
Applications must be submitted by April 11, 2025.
The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center invites applications for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year, devoted to research on the emotions in the German-Jewish experience. On the background of debates over the role of emotions in the construction of human selfhood, as well as of the growing interest in psychology in Germany over the long 19th Century, German Jews played active roles in developing new understandings of emotions and of how to engage and treat them therapeutically. At the Rosenzweig Center next year, we aim to study how emotions were understood, how they were expressed and depicted, roused, controlled, and manipulated in the context of the German-Jewish experience. We will examine the discourse surrounding the irrational in German-Jewish religious experience and political life; and we will inquire into the emotional impact of acculturation, persecution and displacement upon German Jews. We will explore attempts to represent the emotion-laden experience of reality in literature and the arts; and address the contributions German-Jewish thinkers made both to rational conceptions of emotional experience and to emotion-based forms of experiential understanding.
Successful applicants will be expected to carry out their research work at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem from October 2025 through June 2026.