CURRENT JEWISH STUDIES INTERNSHIP OPTIONS
TWO EASY STEPS
Step 1: Contact internship(s) below if you are
interested and send a resume and e-mail/letter of interest.
Step 2: Once “hired” by the internship, contact Dr.
Ben Gordon (bdg36@pitt.edu)
to register for JS 1900 for the spring semester.
American
Jewish Museum
Project: Exhibition Research and Preparation
Credits/Time: 3 credits (average of 9 hours per week) in Spring
2017 (OR in Fall 2017)
Supervisor: Melissa Hiller, Director
Location:
Squirrel Hill
Description: The American Jewish Museum explores diverse
perspectives about Jewish art, philosophy and culture in as wide a scope as
possible. It supports great, complex and bold ideas. It champions artists and
art making. It believes art has the power to build communities, and it promotes
interfaith and intergenerational explorations. Programs and exhibits are
organized to include all members of the community regardless of religious
affiliation. Because the museum is in a highly trafficked area within the JCC
and is open to the public more than 90 hours a week, it attracts a wide
audience and offers unparalleled educational opportunities. The objective of
the AJM internship is to offer experience to individuals interested in
participating in museum-related activities that delve into the connective
tissue between Judaism, arts and culture, contemporary society and Pittsburgh’s
distinct Jewish narrative. The internship is designed to expose young
professionals to the principles of research, exhibition preparation, and museum
management, giving interns practical experience.
Exhibition
research and preparation: The
AJM has exhibit-related opportunities in the following areas: research,
educational outreach preparation, marketing, organization of collateral
materials, labels and visitor interpretation, Web content, and administration.
The AJM is located in the
JCC, so we offer complimentary JCC membership during the internship period.
American
Jewish Museum
Project: Education
Credits/Time: 3 credits (average of 9 hours per week) in Spring
2017 (OR in Fall 2017)
Supervisor: Melissa Hiller, Director
Location:
Squirrel Hill
Description: The American Jewish Museum explores diverse
perspectives about Jewish art, philosophy and culture in as wide a scope as
possible. It supports great, complex and bold ideas. It champions artists and
art making. It believes art has the power to build communities, and it promotes
interfaith and intergenerational explorations. Programs and exhibits are
organized to include all members of the community regardless of religious
affiliation. Because the museum is in a highly trafficked area within the JCC
and is open to the public more than 90 hours a week, it attracts a wide
audience and offers unparalleled educational opportunities. The objective of
the AJM internship is to offer experience to individuals interested in
participating in museum-related activities that delve into the connective
tissue between Judaism, arts and culture, contemporary society and Pittsburgh’s
distinct Jewish narrative. The internship is designed to expose young
professionals to the principles of research, exhibition preparation, and museum
management, giving interns practical experience.
Education: organizing docent program for upcoming
exhibitions; preparing educational activities at the museum’s
Resource/Education area, organizing exhibition-related activities
The ideal candidate is
one who wishes to contribute in a substantive way to the museum, is articulate,
able to think and react quickly and willing to do a wide variety of tasks. The
intern will interact with JCC members, staff, vendors as well as the
community-at-large.
The AJM is located in the
JCC, so we offer complimentary JCC membership during the internship period.
HILLEL-JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER
Project: Ignite
Summit
Credits/Time: 3 credits in Spring 2017 (average of 9 hours per
week)
Supervisor: Danielle Kranjec, Senior Jewish Educator
Location: Oakland
Description: Spend 9 hours a week helping to plan and execute the HIllel
JUC's second annual Ignite Summit, a weekend-long peer-led learning Shabbaton
and conference. Tasks will include helping to organize materials and sessions
for more than 250 undergraduates leading up to the Ignite Summit which will
take place in March. After the Ignite Summit itself, the intern will work to
analyze data regarding the participants and their experience. Prior experience
developing peer-led programming at Hillel or on Jewish topics a plus but not
required.
More
info/apply: Danielle
Kranjec at daniellek@hilleljuc.org
HOLOCAUST
CENTER OF PITTSBURGH
Project: The Butterfly Project Pittsburgh
Credits/Time: 2 credits in Spring 2017 (average of 6 hours a week)
or 1 credit in Spring 2017 followed by 1 credit in Fall 2017 (average of 3
hours per week)
Supervisor: Lauren Bairnsfather, Director
Location: Greenfield/Squirrel Hill
Description: The Butterfly Project is an international effort to
commemorate the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust. The goal is
to paint one butterfly for each child. The Project is based in San Diego, and
each city that participates has put its own twist on the final product. The
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh plans to paint between 1000 and 1800
butterflies, working with partners around the city. The intern will be involved
in several aspects of the project. Responsibilities may include: Conducting
research about children in the Holocaust and writing exhibition labels; communicating
with partner organizations; participating in events as appropriate;
contributing to the vision of the final exhibition, to open in Fall 2017.
JEWISH
COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
Project: JTeenPgh Intern
Credits/Time: 1-2 credits in Spring 2017 AND/OR Fall 2017
(3-6 hours per week)
Supervisor: Rabbi
Ron Symons, Senior Director of Jewish Life
Location: Squirrel Hill
Description: This intern would work to support JTeenPgh
and Pittsburgh’s Jewish teen youth groups network, including developing and guiding
training programs for advisors who work with Jewish teens, supporting the
JTeenPgh.com website of Jewish teen program offerings, creating meaningful
resource guides for Jewish teens and their advisors in Pittsburgh, and advising
Jewish teen program staff
More info/apply: Carolyn Gerecht,
cgerecht@jccpgh.org
JEWISH
COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
Project: Jewish Life
Social Media/Digital Signage Content
Credits/Time: 1-2 credits in Spring 2017 AND/OR Fall 2017
(3-6 hours per week)
Supervisor: Rabbi
Ron Symons, Senior Director of Jewish Life
Location: Squirrel Hill
Description: This intern would be responsible for
harvesting digital media of Jewish content that would be used in JCC social
media and digital signage platforms. The
media would include videos, music videos, animations, quotes…. that relate to
Jewish culture and holidays.
The intern should be well versed in digital media and Jewish culture.
More info/apply: Carolyn Gerecht,
cgerecht@jccpgh.org
JEWISH WOMEN’S ARCHIVE
Project: Oral
History Intern
Credits/Time: 1-2 credits
in Spring 2017 AND/OR Fall 2017 (3-6 hours per week)
Supervisor: Mikki Pugh, Director of Programs and Education
Location: Boston, MA (but internship will be
virtual/internet based)
Description:
The
Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA) is a national nonprofit dedicated to making known
the stories, struggles, and achievements of Jewish women in North America and
beyond. Since it was founded in 1996, JWA has been a leader in the field of
story collecting, becoming the largest repository of material about and voices
of Jewish women, both celebrated and unheralded.
The JWA Oral History Intern
will help organize, curate, and prepare first person testimonials (both audio
and written) for inclusion in an upcoming exhibit about Jewish women’s
involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement.
Interest in and knowledge about
Jewish women’s history and story collecting; attention to detail;
technologically savvy a plus.
JEWISH WOMEN’S ARCHIVE
Project: This Week in History
Credits/Time: 1-2 credits
in Spring 2017 (3-6 hours per week)
Supervisor: Mikki Pugh, Director of Programs and Education
Location: Boston, MA (but internship will be
virtual/internet based)
Description:
This
Week in History is a valuable historical resource presented by the Jewish
Women’s Archive (JWA) that offers historical markers of important events in
American Jewish women’s history. This May, the theme for Jewish American
Heritage Month will be “Women and Leadership.” JWA is seeking an intern to help
enhance the historical events throughout the year (but specifically in May) to
create a robust collection of engaging, inspiring, and up-to-date, events in
Jewish women’s history and leadership.Interest in Jewish women’s history;
attention to detail; ability to conduct online and offline research
RAUH
JEWISH ARCHIVES AT THE HEINZ HISTORY CENTER
Project: Digital
Humanities Internship
Credits/Time: 2-3 credits (6-9
hours per week) in Spring 2017 and/or Fall 2017
Supervisor: David M. Schlitt,
Director.
Location: Strip
District/Downtown
Description:
The
Senator John Heinz History Center seeks interns to develop new media and
digital humanities initiatives for the Rauh Jewish History Program &
Archives. Interns will assist with the Rauh Jewish History Programs
digitization projects, web design and publishing. In addition, interns are
encouraged to explore new tools for historical interpretation, including
augmented reality (Clio), digital humanities publishing platforms (Omeka,
Scalar), and tools for spatial- and data analysis (XML, Neatline). Backgrounds
in Jewish Studies and History and facility with computers are encouraged but
not required.
RAUH
JEWISH ARCHIVES AT THE HEINZ HISTORY CENTER
Project: Museum
and Curatorial Internship
Credits/Time: 2-3 credits (6-9
hours per week) in Spring 2017 and/or Fall 2017
Supervisor: David M. Schlitt,
Director.
Location: Strip
District/Downtown
Description:
The Rauh
Jewish History Program & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center
seeks interns interested in the intersection of museum studies and Jewish
history. Interns will study the holdings of the Rauh Jewish History Program
& Archives with the aim of preparing both physical exhibitions for display
at the Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, and digital
exhibitions for the History Center website. Backgrounds in Jewish Studies and
History are encouraged but not required.
