The Leo Baeck Institute London is inviting applications for this new fellowship programme for doctoral or postdoctoral studies. The Leonor Michaelis Fellowship of £850 (€1,200) per month is granted for a year starting in October 2006 (extension possible). Applicants should have completed their studies in the humanities or sciences with an outstanding degree and should be interested in Jewish history. The planned research should fit in with the project 'Jews in German Academia in the 19th and 20th Centuries' of the Leo Baeck Institute (www.leobaeck.co.uk/research) and deal with developments in one of the following disciplines: biology, chemistry, history, classical philology, philosophy, physics, theoretical medicine.

Founded in 1955, the Leo Baeck Institute London is one of the leading research institutes in the field of German Jewish history. The Institute is linked with the British university system in various ways and jointly organises the Masters and PhD programme 'European Jewish History, Culture and Thought' (with the University of Sussex). The recipient of the fellowship is welcome to participate in this course which takes place at the premises of the Leo Baeck Institute in London.

Applications (in English) including CV, research proposal, and the names and addresses of three referees should be submitted by 30 April 2006 to:

Leo Baeck Institute London
4 Devonshire Street
London
W1W 5LB

Contact and further information: info@leobaeck.co.uk

Leonor Michaelis (1875-1949), founder of quantitative enzymology, was one of the great figures of German biochemistry in the beginning of the 20th century. A combination of three factors prevented him from receiving an academic position in Germany: he was Jewish, held liberal views, and distinguished himself by a scientific orientation and extremely exact experimentation that was unusual in German medical biochemistry at the time. In 1922, he emigrated to Japan and later to the USA where he became a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medicine in New York.