On Monday, June 30, there is a one-day conference about “1275–2025: Queenship, Minorities, and Expulsion” at the Tower of London: “Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) invite you to attend this jointly convened one-day conference on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the Expulsion of the Jews from the towns ruled by Dowager Queen Eleanor of Provence.”
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Jews and Blindness in Medieval Art
You can now watch the talk “Jews and Blindness in Medieval Art” by Anna Russakoff at Bar Ilan University.
Jewish Historical Studies 56/1
The new issue of Jewish Historical Studies 56.1 (2025) is out and features an article by Benedict Wiedemann about “Papal legates, Jews and the Fourth Lateran Council in England, 1215–1221.”
The Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands
According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews (www.shcsj.org) and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands. This call is open to scholars from different disciplines working on a variety of topics centred around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present.”
Deadline: 31 May 2025.
Ten Measures of Beauty: Proceedings of the Midrash Section
Read the new book Ten Measures of Beauty. Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, ed. W. David Nelson and Rivka Ulmer (Georgia Press, 2025).
Wiss. Mitarb. 65% (Forschungsgruppe »Aschkenas«)
Im Fachbereich III der Universität Trier (Geschichte/Geschichtliche Landeskunde, Professur Stephan Laux) isdt voraussichtlich zum 01.07.2025 in dem von der DFG drittmittelfinanzierten Forschungsprojekt »Aschkenas in neuen Lebenswelten. Akteure, Praktiken und Räume in der jüdischen Geschichte Mitteleuropas während des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts«, Teilprojekt 3 »Extra muros, intra muros« folgende Stelle zu besetzen: Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) (EG 13 TV-L, 65%, befristet für die Dauer von vier Jahren gem. WissZeitVG).
Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Perpignan, c. 1300
Read now Katrin Kogman Appel’s new article “Hebrew Book Art in Shared Spaces: Perpignan, c. 1300,” in Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia – Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers, ed. Jacopo Gnisci, Sophia Dege-Müller, Jonas Karlsson, and Vitagrazia Pisani (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2025), 281–321.
Decapitation and Resurrection in Nasir Khusrawand the Yemen Messiah
Read David Malkiel’s new article “Decapitation and Resurrection in Nasir Khusraw
and the Yemen Messiah” in Zutot 2025: 1–5.
The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Book of Job
Out now is The Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra on the Book of Job. Introduction, translation, and annotation by Jason Kalman (Western Michigan University, 2025).
Review: Alexander Fidora and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, eds., Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources in Medieval Polemic
Read Shmuel Shepkaru’s review of Alexander Fidora and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, eds., Christian Readings of Rabbinic Sources in Medieval Polemic (Tübingen, 2024).