Junior Postdoc Researcher University of Oxford – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

This is an exciting opportunity to join Prof. Judith Schlanger (Principal Investigator) on the research project ‘The History of the Jewish Book in the Islamicate World’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (AHRC/DFG). The project will provide a comprehensive study of the book cultures of Jewish minorities in Egypt and the Levant between the 9th and 13th centuries on the basis of a carefully selected substantial corpus of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts. The project is a collaboration between Oxford and the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (PI Professor Ronny Vollandt).

Deadline: 12.00 noon on Friday 10 September 2021.


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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).