The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is pleased to present its Fellowship program. Two or three fellowships will be awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent study to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, general history, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections.

DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, was launched as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) on 17 November in Paris. DARIAH-ERIC is established for twenty years and brings together 15 countries as founding members. EHRI is a DARIAH affiliated project and makes use of the expertise and activities of DARIAH-partners. EHRI's Project Director Conny Kristel and Executive Team member Tobias Blanke are also part of DARIAH's new Board of Directors.

25-26 May 2015, Bucharest

Applications due November 28, 2014

The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary regional conference on the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe. The conference will be held May 25–26, 2015 in Bucharest.

Report on the EHRI workshop Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI

László Csősz, Hungarian National Archives

The last event in the series of international workshops to disseminate the achievements of the EHRI project took place in the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest on November 6, 2014. The workshop Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI was held in cooperation with the NIOD Amsterdam and the Hungarian National Archives.