Online seminar: “Medieval and Early Modern Concepts of the Jewish Library,” by Professor Avriel Bar-Levav (Open University of Israel)

The seminar will be held face-to-face at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences of Madrid (CCHS), and will be broadcast live via Zoom.

Zoom ID: 840 8772 9613

Access code: 999910

Date and time: Monday, December 13, at 11:30am.


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About Maya Soifer Irish

Dr. Maya Soifer Irish an Associate Professor of History at Rice University, whose research focuses on religious violence and toleration, and explores the legal, social, and economic situation of religious minorities in Iberian Christian societies. She is the author of many articles, including “Beyond convivencia: Critical Reflections on the Historiography of Interfaith Relations in Christian Spain.” Her first book, Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change, explores the changes in Jewish-Christian relations in the kingdom of Castile between the 11th and 14th centuries. She is currently working on a new book, The Politics of Persecution in Medieval Spain: Toward the Anti-Jewish Riots of 1391. Between 2018 and 2021 she served as President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS).