Coming from Stanford University Press in May 2024
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Lecture (in-person and on Zoom) — “The Politics of Anti-Judaism: Religious Co-production and Sectarian Polemics in the Fatimid Caliphate,” with Mohamad Ballin (Stony Brook Univ.)
April 25, 2024, 12:30 – 2:30 PM (Eastern Time)
Use the QR code in the poster to register (in-person or Zoom)
New Book — Moses Maimonides, “The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation,” translated and with commentary by Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman
Coming from Stanford University Press in May 2004
Conference: “Considering Jewish Expulsions in the Middle Ages” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 12–13 March, 2024)
New book – Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East, by Anna Gutgarts
Cambridge University Press, February 2024
“Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” – Summer Skills Seminar (8-11 July: remote)
The Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars, and professionals with the foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies. The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by supplementary and contextual topics. This Summer Skills Seminar provides participants with and introduction to and overview of Sephardic thought from the 11th to 17th centuries, with representative readings in rabbinics, polemic, poetry, historiography, travel narrative, mysticism, and philosophy.
Application deadline: April 15, 2024
New book – Jewish Culture and Creativity: Essays in Honor of Professor Michael Fishbane on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday
Edited by Eitan P. Fishbane & Elisha Russ-Fishbane
Academic Studies Press, October 2023
Book presentation: “Textiles of Medieval Iberia”/”El textil de Iberia en la Edad Media”
19 October, 2023. Instituto Cervantes (Tel Aviv)
Talk: “Circumcision and Hypocrisy in Late Medieval Christian Thought,” by Sara Lipton.
June 3, 2023, University of Trier. Ask for a Zoom link via igj [at] uni-trier.de.