The Jewbury Medieval Jewish Cemetery in York – today buried under a car park — is listed as a Scheduled Historic Monument, granting it certain protections.
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Well-Poisoning Accusations in Medieval Europe: 1250-1500 by Tzafrir Barzilay at Medievalists.net
In late medieval Europe, suspicions arose that minority groups wished to destroy the Christian majority by poisoning water sources. These suspicions caused the persecution of different minorities by rulers, nobles and officials in various parts of the continent during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Article: Hilferuf auf Hebräisch – Monumente April 2025 (in German)
An ordinary residential building in Schwäbisch Gmünd turns out to be a medieval synagogue and Jewish community center, a Domus Judaeorum. Probably the only surviving example of its kind in the German-speaking world: when Robert Dinser, a member of a long-established Gmünd family, bought the house at Imhofstraße 9 in 2014, he wanted to prevent the building from falling into the wrong hands. How far-sighted the owner of several monuments was in doing so would only become clear later. At first glance, the building with its hipped roof and 20th century porch looks like a normal residential building.
New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month April 2025
Read the new Post of the Genizah Research Unit with the Fragment of the Month April 2025 on a a Hidden Layer of Sifra beneath the Mishnah: A Hebrew Palimpsest in the Cairo Genizah, T-S E2.51 by Elyashiv Cherlow.
More Than Scholars and Victims: The Forgotten Lives of Medieval Jews by Cait Stevenson at Medievalists.net
Jews have come to play an oddly sober role in the standard story of the Middle Ages. Jewish men are intellectuals, philosophers, physicians—and the self-erasing middlemen between Muslim and Christian culture, never mind acknowledging their own.
New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month March 2025
Read the new Post of the Genizah Research Unit with the Fragment of the Month March 2025 on a Lost Manuscript, A Forgotten Tradition, and the Power of Modern Technology by Zvi Stampfer
The Three Religions of Medieval Spain
Online Medieval Studies Course at Medievalists.net
This six-part course introduces nearly 1,000 years of innovation, collaboration, and conflict in the Iberian Peninsula (today’s Spain and Portugal) from 711 to the 17th century.
- Course begins March 29, 2025
- Weekly live sessions with the instructor
- Sessions from 11:00am – 12:30pm Eastern U.S. time
Visiting Ph.D. Fellowships, Israel Science Foundation, “Contending with Crises: The Jews in XIVth Century Europe” deadline March 15
The Israel Science Foundation sponsored research project Contending with Crises: The Jews in XIVth Century Europe at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the direction of Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten is offering up to 2 visiting fellowships for Ph.D. students in the fields of History, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, Literature, or Art History starting in October 2025. It is possible to apply for a full year or for part of one.
Continue reading Visiting Ph.D. Fellowships, Israel Science Foundation, “Contending with Crises: The Jews in XIVth Century Europe” deadline March 15From Provence to Jerusalem: Israel receives rare Medieval Jewish manuscript
National Library of Israel curator says rare 12th-century text authored by Rabbi Joseph Kimhi gives glimpse into rich Jewish intellectual activity in late Medieval France.
New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month January 2025
Read the new Post of the Genizah Research Unit with the Fragment of the Month January 2025 on Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi ben Mishaʾel: The Rambam’s Brother-in-Law and His Two Works.