Your profile Successfully completed university studies (MA or equivalent) in Jewish Studies, Literature, Cultural Studies, Genocide Studies, History or Anthropology and History of Knowledge Perfect command of English and Yiddish (including handwriting) Interest in and/or previous research on bottom-up, positioned, embodied, and activist forms of memory and knowledge production in the aftermath of the Holocaust

The PhD candidate will be based at the ZfA in Berlin with the German team under the direction of Dr. Zuzanna Dziuban, but work closely with the French partners at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. Your responsibility Active participation in the organisation of the activities of the research project (workshops, conferences, public events) Presentation of your research findings in peer-reviewed publications and at conferences Work on a dissertation that will address one or several topics covered in the FIMEMO project and focus on the early post-Holocaust practices of Jewish survivors exploring the largely unsearched archives of several Jewish survivor scholars, archival material, and memorial books addressing postwar memorial and material practices performed by Jewish survivors, including forms of forensic activism