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Ben Outhwaite on the Kyiv Letter and more in Kedem video series
Read about “Ben Outhwaite on the Kyiv Letter and more in Kedem video series” via the blog of the Genizah Research Unit.
Online Event: The Popes and the Jews in Sixteenth-Century Italy through the Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, 24 April 2023
Martina Mampieri, Martin Buber Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, will lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on Manuscripts in Interfaith Contexts and talk about “The Popes and the Jews in Sixteenth-Century Italy through the Chronicle of Pope Paul IV.”
Talk: Medieval Jewish Embrace of and Critique of Philosophy
Watch the talk by Israel Sandman about “Medieval Jewish Embrace of and Critique of Philosophy” via Chabad.
Talk: The Cairo Genizah as a Treasury of Arabic Literature
You can now watch the talk “The Cairo Genizah as a Treasury of Arabic Literature” by Benjamin Outhwaite and Mohamed Ahmed via Youtube.
New Issue of Tarbiz 89 (2022)
The new issue of Tarbiz. Quarterly for Jewish Studies 89 (2022) features a new article by Avishai Bar-Asher on “The Bahir as It Once Was: Transmission History as a Tool for Reconstructing and Reassessing the Text, Format, and Ideas of the Original Composition.”
Exhibition: “Les lumières d’Al-Andalus” at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, 9-30 March 2023
This cycle of meetings, organized by Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil andJean-Baptiste Brenet intends to make history and philosophy resonate together in order to disentangle history from myth, and to highlight the powerful contribution of al-Andalus to the universal history of knowledge. Deals with some aspects of Jews at the court of of Abd al-Rahman III and more…
“What Bible glossaries of French Jews tell us about medieval society” Featured in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
Hanna Liss and Stephen Dörr discussing their collaborative work at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften on six medieval Hebraico-French glossaries with a total of around 105,000 glossary entries.
Save the Date: Conference on New Christian and New Jewish Discourses of Identity between Polemics and Apologetics, 14-15 June
Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
Organizers:
Claude Stuczynski, Bar-Ilan University
David Graizbord, University of Arizona
Program to follow
Exhibition: “The Lost Mirror: The image of Jews and Judaism in the Middle Ages,” Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
10 October 2023 – 1 January 2024.

EAJS Digital jour fixe 2023
The EAJS Digital jour fixe is organized by the Digital Forum of the European Association of Jewish Studies. Its aim is to present the use of larger digital methods, techniques and / or infrastructure websites for Jewish Studies. The next meeting will take place virtually on Friday, March 24, between 10 and 11h30 CET.