Sessions on Jewish Conversion at IMC 2024 in Leeds

Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 15:15 – 19:005 (GMT +1), Leeds University and online

Session Number 725 – Crisis of Faith, I: The Impact of Jewish Conversion on Individuals and Families (Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 15:15 – 16:45)

725-a – Pressburg 1438: The Cases of the Jewish Aunt and the Unbaptised Christian

Eveline Brugger, Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St Pölten

725-b – Gender and Inter-Religious Conflicts in the Medieval Family

Ahuva Liberles, Tel Aviv University

725-c – The Mass Conversions of 1391: The Immediate Impact on Individuals Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Session Number 825 – Crisis of Faith, II: Conversion, Apostasy, and Martyrdom in Jewish-Christian Interreligious Conflicts (Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 17:30 – 19:00)

825-a – The London Thirteen, Revisited: Crises of Faith in the 1280s

Adrienne Williams Boyarin, University of Victoria, British Columbia

825-b – Forced Conversion and the Elements of Resistance Myth: Memory and the Rhineland Martyrs

Emilie Amar-Zifkin, University of Toronto

825-c – Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism Irven Resnick, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

For more lectures and sessions on Medieval Jewish Studies brows the IMC Programme.


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.