We are pleased to announce the scholarship program of the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry for outstanding doctoral students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the 2023/24 -2025/26 academic years. The aim of the scholarships is to enable outstanding doctoral students to devote most of their time and energy to research and study, for researchers from the Humanities [including Education], Social Sciences, Law, or Social Work.

The Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry will grant three-year scholarships in the following fields:
1. At least one scholarship for research on the Holocaust, genocide and their echoes in memory and culture.
2. At least one scholarship for research on Contemporary Jewry dealing with topics such as (but not limited to): Zionism, the State of Israel and Israeli society, research on Diaspora Jewry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Israeli-Arab conflict, creative cultural and religious activity in the Jewish world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, demography of the Jews.

Application is open to students (in institutions of higher education anywhere) who will be registered as doctoral candidates at the Hebrew University in 2023/24 academic year. Those eligible to submit are: MA research students in the final year of their MA programs, students holding a research-track MA degree, students in a direct PhD track, and students in the first stages of the doctoral program (including students who have already submitted dissertation proposals, up to two years from registering for the degree). Eligibility for the grant requires registration as a doctoral candidate with HUJI's Authority for Research Students by 1 August 2023.

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