You can now read the articles in the new volume The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts, ed. Katharina Heyden and David Nirenberg (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), with much medieval content.
Tenured full professor and Schusterman Center director position at University of Texas at Austin
The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin seeks a visionary and collaborative director, who will also serve as a tenured full professor on the Jewish Studies faculty and in a department consistent with their area of academic specialization
Workshop: Architektur / Repräsentation / Restriktion – Schaufassaden im mittelalterlichen Stadtraum
25/26 September 2025, Erfurt
The Working Group on the Middle Ages in the Jewish Cultural Heritage Network invites to its next workshop on 25/26 September 2025 in Erfurt. This time we will focus on an architectural phenomenological aspect in its urban context.
Open Access: Interdisziplinär erforscht. Das Phänomen der Tagin und Otijjot Meshunnot als paläographische Besonderheit in mittelalterlichen Torarollen
by Dana Eichhorst, Laura Frank, Danah Tonne, Katharina H. Wendl
In: Schnittstelle Mediävistik. Kollaborationen der Mittelalterforschung im digitalen Zeitalter. Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, Bd. 30 Nr. 1 (2025)
Talk: Kilian Schräder, „Zur frühen Entwicklung des Judeneids“
7 July 2025
Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Kilian Schräder (Trier) will speak about „Zur frühen Entwicklung des Judeneids“ at Trier University, 18:15 CET. For a Zoom link, please register with cluse@uni-trier.de or muellerj@uni-trier.de.
New book: François Soyer, The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism
Arc Humanities Press, July 2025.

Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Series
You can now watch several shorter talks of the “Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Series,” curated by Elisheva Baumgarten, Maya Soifer Irish, Marcia Kupfer, and Asa Mittman.
Calling Emerging Scholars: Advance Your Research at the National Library of Israel
According to their call, “Early-career and postdoctoral researchers are invited to apply for the 2026 Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowships—a unique opportunity to explore the unparalleled collections of the National Library of Israel (NLI).”
Extended Deadline: 10 July 2025.
[fällt leider aus!] Online-Talk: Die Domus Judaeorum in Schwäbisch Gmünd – Ein Blick auf 800 Jahre Nutzungs- und Umnutzungsgeschichte by Simon Paulus (in German)
July 1, 2025 18:00 CET, Universität Tübingen, Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften, Hegelbau (Wilhelmstr. 36) Raum 405 and via zoom
In its almost 800-year history, the building at Imhofstraße 9 in Schwäbisch Gmünd has been home to a wide variety of residents and experienced many different uses. Until renovation work began in 2014, it was considered an old but rather inconspicuous building in the town, and it was only when significant structural remains from the 13th and 14th centuries were uncovered that its former significance for the town’s history came back into focus. Since then, structural research on the building and archival research have continued to bring new findings to light, while at the same time efforts are being made to ensure that the building is used in a sustainable manner in keeping with its listed status. The lecture will present these current findings and developments and link them to the question of what potential the building could have not only as a testimony to medieval Jewish culture and history, but also as a living stone historical testimony in general for the communication and discussion of social developments, questions of perception and phenomena of the present.
People of the Image. Jews and Art
The new book by Marc M. Epstein, People of the Image. Jews and Art (Penn State University Press, 2025) is out.