Research Associate for the Project Group “Turning Rock into Pixels: The Jewish Cemetery Altona” § 28 Subsection 1+3 HmbHGExtended Deadline

7. April 2026

The Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) and the Institute for Jewish Studies are looking for a doctoral researcher in the field of Jewish Studies.

UWA oers an exciting opportunity to research handwritten artefacts across materials, periods and regions within a collaborative team of doctoral, postdoctoral and senior/professorial researchers. You will be part of an international team of researchers from across over forty disciplines in the Humanities, the Natural Sciences and Computer Science. The Institute for Jewish Studies is one of the leading institutions in the German-speaking world for the study of Jewish intellectual and cultural history, and it is part of the Department of Religions, closely collaborating with the Alevi, Islamic, Protestant and Catholic theology, the Academy of World Religions and other religion-related subjects and chairs in the Faculty of Humanities.

Institution: Cluster of Excellence „Understanding Written Artefacts“
Salary level: EGR. 13 TV-L
Start date: as soon as possible, xed for a period of three years. (This is a xed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic xed-term labor contract act [Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG]).
Application deadline: 2026-04-19
Scope of work: part-time
Weekly hours: 75 % of standard work hours per week

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