Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Now accepting applications for the 2023 Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS). Open to faculty in all disciplines with an interest in Israel Studies. The fellowship provides travel, accommodations and meals as well as a stipend of up to $2,500. The 2023 program will take place June 28 - July 9 at Brandeis University and July 10 - 19 in Israel. Apply by January 17, 2023. At Brandeis, participants study with world-class faculty from a broad range of Israel Studies disciplines, and develop a syllabus for a course, or course segment, on Israel studies that they will teach at their home institutions. In Israel, they engage with cultural figures, as well as Israeli academicians, Jewish and Arab policy makers, politicians, thought leaders, entrepreneurs and social advocates. 

Read the Fall 2022 issue of "Israel Studies." Articles include "Mamlakhtiyut (Statism) and the Establishment of a National Archive in Israel: A Study in Theory, History, and Practice, from the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s" by Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Oded Heilbronner; "The Place of Israel’s Palestinian Citizens in Mamlakhti Culture: The First Independence Days and the Notion of Accommodation" by Adi Sherzer; and "Between the Universal and the Local: Representations of Current Events in Lea Goldberg’s Writings for Children During the British Mandate" by Ayelet Gil-Ronen. "Israel Studies" is cosponsored by the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in affiliation with the Association for Israel Studies.