Preface to the Holiday of Rosh Hashana. Rothschild Mahzor (Italian, 1490). Ink, watercolor, powdered gold and silver leaf on parchment. Courtesy of The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York.
Lehnertz, Andreas. Review of Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures, edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel, Elisheva Baumgarten, Elisabeth Hollender, and Ephraim Shoham-Steiner. Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung 31, no. 1 (2026): 249–50.
The National Library of Israel, The Ilona and Hugo Lowy Special Collections Presentation Room
Prof. Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University and Prof. Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University
9:30-11:30 seminar open to graduate students and early career researchers registration
11:45-13:00 lecture open to the public registration required
14:00 guided tour “From Glikl to modern Israel” registration EN | HE, payment required
On June 22, 2026, Elisheva Carlebach and Debra Kaplan will lead a graduate seminar at the National Library of Israel hosted by the Contending with Crises research team at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The seminar (9:30–11:30) is open to graduate students and early career researchers and will include a close reading of texts.
Scholars who have received a PhD within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences, or in their professional field are eligible for a fellowship, tenable for periods from four to eleven months at a stipend of $5,000 per month for residential research of the collections at the Library of Congress.
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lausanne is hiring a full-time Graduate Assistant in Jewish History and Judaism starting October 1, 2026. The role involves pursuing a PhD (at least 50%) and assisting with teaching and research (up to 50%). Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field and have strong French and English (knowledge of Hebrew and German is also desirable).
This book examines the question of Jewish identity in and around Egypt in the Middle Ages based on an analysis of cases where community boundaries were crossed by means of conversion. The book discusses many cases of Jews who converted to other religions, mainly to Islam, and of non-Jewish enslaved men and women who were owned by Jewish masters and mistresses, whose manumission was in fact their conversion, thus giving them an entry ticket into the Jewish community in which they lived.
See program below:
The World Union for Jewish Studies is to sponsor a scholars’ workshop, under a title חידושים בחקר יהדות אשכנז בימי הביניים , at Bar-Ilan University, Monday, March 9. See the program below:
