Scholarships and Fellowship Programs

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The 2008 Summer Internship Program

The Shalem Center Summer Internship Program will accept outstanding undergraduate students and recent graduates for an eight-week program at The Shalem Center’s Jerusalem location in the heart of the German Colony. Through weekly seminars, occasional symposia, and special workshops, the program provides a unique opportunity to combine intellectual study with practical work experience in a variety of departments at a leading Israeli research institute.

    Program Features
  • Weekly seminars will be delivered by Shalem Center fellows and guest lecturers. Past lectures have included Michael Oren on "Post-Zionism and Israeli Historiography," Daniel Polisar on "The Jewish State Tradition in Israeli Constitutional History," Natan Sharansky on "Zionism: The Promise Fulfilled?," Yoram Hazony on “Theodor Herzl and the Cause of Jewish Restoration."
  • Summer Interns are also welcome to join an optional writing and editing seminar taught by the editors of Azure, The Shalem Center’s acclaimed quarterly journal.
  • Summer interns will work in one of the departments or institutes at the Shalem Center. The Shalem Center attempts to honor candidate preferences, but there are no guarantees as to what sort of work interns will perform.
  • The program also features evening events designed to expose interns to aspects of Israeli culture as well as overnight trips to locations around Israel.

Click here for application material and form for the 2007 summer internship progam.

 

Shalem Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships

Founded in 2001, the Shalem Center’s Institute for Philosophy, Politics and Religion (PPR) seeks to develop an innovative approach to disciplines at the core of the modern humanities and social science curriculum. Students at the institute study the great works of the Western tradition side by side with classical Jewish sources. Our premise is that the serious study of any academic topic in philosophy, religion, politics, history or literature, requires an acquaintance—at once broad and profound—with the fundamental issues presupposed by such study. Moreover, our work is based on the assumption that the sources of Jewish insight, experience and wisdom have yet to be fully brought into dialogue with the tradition of Western thought. The institute thus aims to foster original and enriching scholarship, born of the fruitful tensions inherent in such a dialogue.

Fellowships are granted for one year to postdoctoral and graduate students who wish to pursue studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. All graduate courses are conducted in English; in addition, fellows may choose to enroll in undergraduate courses, which are conducted in Hebrew. Applicants must have completed a B.A. to apply for a Graduate Fellowship; received approval of their dissertation topic for a Dissertation Fellowship; or completed a Ph.D. for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. During 2006-2007, the program has accepted thirteen students from North America, Europe, and Israel. Students work on an independent research project; attend classes and a weekly works-in-progress colloquium, as well as lectures by distinguished

Click here for application material and form for the post-doctoral fellowships
Click here for application material and form for the graduate fellowships