This is an ongoing forum, comprised of 15 advanced PhD students (ABD) and recent PhDs (prior to tenure-track appointments). It meets periodically and is intended to allow the young scholars an opportunity for cross-fertilization in their fields with their own peers and with an esteemed group of senior scholars led by Israel Bartal, Oleg Budnitskii, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Engel, Zvi Gitelman, Rebecca Kobrin, Gabriella Safran and Anna Shternshis. The Forum's faculty also includes scholars representing the organizing institutions: Eli Lederhendler and Semion Goldin from the Hebrew University, Yfaat Weiss from the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow and Kamil Kijek from Wrocław University. We invite candidates from all branches of the humanities and the social sciences connected to the study of East European Jewry.