You can join this talk online on 7 July 2022 from 19:00–20:00 CET.
Category Archives: Events
Online Talk by Simone Hallstein about “Judenfeindlichkeit und Medienwandel im Spätmittelalter. Ein Werkstattbericht”
Simone Hallstein will give her talk in German at the Colloquium of the Arye Maimon Institute of Trier University on 4 July 2022 at 18:15 CET. For registration and link write to Christoph Cluse (cluse AT uni-trier . DE).
The Summer 2022 Mediterranean Seminar Workshop: “Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement in the Premodern Mediterranean” 28 & 29 June 2022, University of Haifa
This is an in-person event only held at the University of Haifa; there is no virtual or zoom option. Register prior to 17 June
Workshop “Reading the Torah Ritually: The Art and Architecture of Ancient and Medieval Synagogues”, 21 June 2022
Online-Workshop, 21 June 2022, 6-8 p.m., at the Research Centre „Dynamics of Jewish Ritual Practices“, University of Erfurt

For the access link please send email to: claudia.bergmann@uni-erfurt.de.
Three-part Zoom lecture series on Karaism by Daniel J. Lasker Thursdays at 17:30 Israel time, June 9 – 23.
June 9: The emergence of Karaism, the Karaite Golden Age in the Land of Israel; a history of Karaite spiritual centers; Karaites in the Holocaust; Israeli Karaism.
June 16: Karaite practice and belief; how exactly does Karaism differ from Rabbinic Judaism; what practices are common to the two forms of Judaism; Karaite beliefs and doctrines.
June 23: Karaite intellectual accomplishments; theology; biblical commentaries; linguistics and literature; historiography and polemics; the future of Karaism.
New book by Daniel J. Lasker and book launch, 15 June at 18:00 Israel time

Online Talk by Rainer Barzen about “‘Der, der Abraham, Isaak und Jakob gesegnet hat, möge auch segnen…’ Formen, Genese und Motivationen des Totengedenkens im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas”
Rainer Barzen will give his talk in German at the Colloquium of the Arye Maimon Institute of Trier University on 20 June 2022 at 18:15 CET. For registration and link write to Christoph Cluse (cluse@uni-trier.de).
Hybrid Lecture: Anna Sapir Abulafia, ‘The Role of Money in medieval Christian-Jewish Relations’ (30 May 2022)
As part of a series of events to mark the unveiling of a statue of Licoricia of Winchester, and her son Asher, Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia will be giving a lecture at the University of Winchester on the role of money in Christian-Jewish relations. This in person event will be streamed on Microsoft Teams.
Talk by Tzafrir Barzilay: “Dragons of Summer and Winter,” 2 June 2022
Tzafrir Barzilay will speak about “Dragons of Summer and Winter: Lay Traditions of Jews and Christians between South and North in Medieval Europe,” at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, Haifa University. The event is hybrid and you can join via zoom at 12:15 IST.
Fifth International Spring School in Jewish Studies “Home, Belonging and Exile – Sepharad and Beyond,” May 27 to June 3, 2022
This Spring School will take place both in Madrid and Toledo. The School has been organized jointly by the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam; The Open University of Israel; King’s College London; Jewish Cultures across Mediterranean Europe (J-Med) CSIC-UCM; and the Sephardic Museum (Toledo). According to the organizers, “the School is intended for graduate students in Jewish Studies, with participants from the Netherlands, Israel, Spain and United Kingdom. The academic sessions and field trips will deal with the concepts of home, belonging and exile through Jewish history, with a special focus on Sepharad and the Mediterranean Diaspora.”
Contact: jmed@csic.es