“This award is presented to an Early Career Scholar in the social scientific study of contemporary Jewry whose work reflects excellence in the application of social science theories and methods in the field.”
Deadline: 31 October 2024.
“This award is presented to an Early Career Scholar in the social scientific study of contemporary Jewry whose work reflects excellence in the application of social science theories and methods in the field.”
Deadline: 31 October 2024.
Read now Avraham Grossman on the Cultural Dynamic of Medieval Jewish History and Thought, eds. Menachem Butler and Jonathan Grossman (Cambridge, MA: The Institute for Jewish Research and Publications, 2024).
Read tihs article via the Librarians blog of the nationla Library of Israel.
Read now Ram Ben-Shalom’s The Jews of Provence and Languedoc (Liverpool University Press, 2024). The publisher writes: “The Hebrew edition of The Jews of Provence and Languedoc, published in 2017, was awarded the Ben Zvi Institute Prize (2018) and the Am Olam Prize of the Historical Society of Israel (2019). This exhaustive history of Provençal Jewry examines the key aspects of Jewish life in Provence—cultural, religious, political, economic, and literary—over some 1,500 years. The Jewish response to the Albigensian Crusade, the annexation of Languedoc by the Kingdom of France, and other historical events was an unprecedented cultural florescence that was to have far-reaching and enduring consequences. Crucially, it was in Provence that philosophical and scientific works were first translated from Arabic to Hebrew, allowing the Jews of Christian Europe to absorb and assimilate the achievements of the Jews of Muslim Spain. The emergence in Provence of the Maimonidean-Aristotelian philosophical school sent spiritual shock waves throughout the Jewish world, and it was also in Provence that the first esoteric teachings of kabbalah emerged. But cultural innovations went beyond the religious and philosophical: secular Hebrew poetry written by Jewish troubadors offered a glimpse of Jewish merrymaking, romanticism, and eroticism that drew criticism from the rabbis, and even allowed women’s voices to be assertively raised in the public sphere. First published in Hebrew in 2017 to scholarly acclaim, this is a seminal examination of the crucial role of the Jews of Provence in shaping medieval Jewish culture in the Mediterranean basin.”
Watch this talk on youtube: אייל לוינסון על נעורים, מגדר ומיניות באשכנז בימי הביניים.
The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship supports the best and brightest minds in their postdoctoral research in Israel, connecting them with world-class academics and leading researchers.
The Center for Jewish Art “is offering a free introductory webinar on the Index of Jewish Art. This webinar is designed to help you effectively navigate the Index and utilize its diverse tools. It can also be integrated into course curricula and other group activities with students. For additional information, please reach out to Dr. Anna Berezin, Head of the Ritual and Ceremonial Section at the Center for Jewish Art, at anna.berezin@mail.huji.ac.il.”
Take part in the online book launch of Book Launch of Anna Sapir Abulafia’s “Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom” (2nd Edition) via the Oxford Interfaith Forum on 24 September 2024.
Papers are sought for the session, Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-speaking Jews, to be proposed for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 8-10, 2025), organized by Michail Kitsos (Tel Aviv University).
Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages has announced “that applications for Oxford School of Rare Jewish Language’s classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2024 are now open.”