Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

• Participate in a 35 hour per week, Monday-Friday, internship program

• Produce, under staff supervision, an original piece of scholarly research or a creative and/or artistic project that focuses on Jewish gender issues

• Assist HBI-affiliated scholars and Brandeis offices with research and administrative tasks

• Meet and learn from scholars and activists around the world who work on Jewish gender topics
• Visit local institutions and organizations of Jewish interest
• Receive apartment style campus housing

• Receive a weekly stipend

Please submit each of the following items through the online application.

1. Two to four paragraphs identifying which TWO of the Supervised Projects listed below are of interest and a description of your qualifications.

2. A 500-word essay explaining your interest in Jewish gender studies.

3. One or two project ideas for an independent project

4. Two references: one academic and one work related (extra curricular activity, work study, etc.) emailed directly to dolins@brandeis.edu. Ask your references to address:

   • Subject matter of the course (academic reference) or type of work 
   • Quality of work
   • Timeliness
   • Confidence to ask questions 
   • Interpersonal Skills

5. C.V. / Résumé

Apply for two:

• Bridging the JAP: Funny Jewish Women and the Reframing of Jewish Femininity in American Pop Culture - Assist Dr. Samantha Pickette, Assistant Director Brandeis University Hillel, with her new book  focused on representations of Jewish women in pop culture.
• Daughters in Danger, from the Hebrew Bible to Modern Midrash -Assist Rabbi Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College, with proof-reading and editing her final manuscript. 
• And She Rose: Jewish Women Leaders for Troubled Times - Assist Brandeis Professor Emerita Sylvia Fishman on a project analyzing Jewish women's public leadership roles.
• Jewish Organizations, Diversity and Social Justice - Assist Dr. Edith Pick, a Postdoctoral Associate at the HBI with her project exploring diversity in Jewish nonprofit organizations in the U.S.
• Religion and Reproductive Justice - Assist Dr. Celene Ibrahim, a HBI Research Associate and scholar of Islamic intellectual history and applied ethics, with her project examining Muslim-American approaches to reproductive-related decision-making.
• Women's Roles in the Sephardic Diaspora From the Golden Age of Spain to Mid-century Cuba - Provide writer and HBI Research Associate Judy Bolton-Fasman with research assistance on her ongoing project.
  
• The Remarkable Women Around Louis Dembitz Brandeis: Reclaiming An Activist Legacy - Assist Professor Emerita Joyce Antler with her ongoing research on the women in the Supreme Court Justice's family.
  
• The Last Transport: Motherhood, Family Stories and a Holocaust Inheritance - Assist HBI Research Associate Rachel Munn with her creative non-fiction book project of narrative poems about motherhood and the experiences of her extended family during the Holocaust.
• Delivering Knowledge: Jewish Midwives and Hidden Healing in Early Modern Europe - Assist University of Massachusetts Professor Jordan Katz with her research on Jewish midwives
  
• The Talmudic Construction of Personhood - Assist Dr. Sara Ronis, a HBI Research Associate and scholar of rabbinic literature, with her project examining fetal personhood in late antique rabbinic texts. 
• The Trials of Stella Goldschlag – Nazi Victim, Holocaust Survivor, and War Criminal - Assist Brandeis Professor Laura Jockusch with her reappraisal of a Nazi collaborator.

• Participate in a 35 hours per week, Monday–Friday, internship program

• Produce under staff supervision, an original piece of scholarly research, a chapter from a dissertation, or a creative and/or artistic project that focuses on Jewish gender issues

• Assist HBI-affiliated scholars and Brandeis Offices with research and administrative tasks

• Learn about the daily operations of an academic research institute

• Receive a weekly stipend

Optional Activities

• Visit local institutions and organizations of Jewish interest

• Meet and learn from scholars and activists around the world who work on Jewish gender topics

• Live on the Brandeis campus in apartment style housing

Please submit each of the following items through the online application.

• Two paragraphs identifying which ONE of the Supervised Projects listed below are of interest and a description of your qualifications

• A description of your research

• Two academic references emailed directly to dolins@brandeis.edu . Ask your references to address your :

  • aptitude for graduate study in the humanities and social sciences.
  • oral and written communications skills
  • conceptual and analytical thinking abilities
  • character and interpersonal skills, maturity, integrity and emotional stability.

• C.V. / Résumé

• Daughters in Danger, from the Hebrew Bible to Modern Midrash - Assist Rabbi Rachel Adelman, Hebrew College, with proof-reading and editing her final manuscript.
• Religion and Reproductive Justice - Assist Dr. Celene Ibrahim, a HBI Research Associate and scholar of Islamic intellectual history and applied ethics, with her project examining Muslim-American approaches to reproductive-related decision-making.
• Handbook on Judaism, Gender and Sexuality - Provide assistance to Dr. Lisa Joffe of the HBI on a new handbook.
  
• The Trials of Stella Goldschlag – Nazi Victim, Holocaust Survivor, and War Criminal - Assist Brandeis Professor Laura Jockusch with her reappraisal of a Nazi collaborator.