In the new issue of Historische Zeitschrift 317.3 (2023), Christoph Cluse reviews Elisheva Baumgarten, Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press 2022 (in German).
Category Archives: Opinion
Conference Report: Jews, Christians and Crafts in Premodern Towns, June 2023, Cologne
By Simone Hallstein, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Historically, research on medieval urban history has been divided into two distinct traditions: Either focusing on Christians or Jews, even if the same medieval sources were used. But in numerous places, Christians and Jews not only coexisted, but they were also in regular close contact and shared their daily life.
Germany: Debates continue over the “Judensau” carvings on medieval churches
Read about it on Jewish Heritage Europe
Review of Brown’s and Herman’s “Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism”
You can now read Dana Fishkin’s review of Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism: Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism and Kabbalah ed. by Jeremy P. Brown and Marc Herman. Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 86 (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
Blog post: ‘Who killed Licoricia of Winchester? A Medieval Murder Mystery’
For the one year anniversary of the unveiling of the Licoricia of Winchester statue in Winchester, Sara M. Butler has produced a discussion of Licoricia’s death in 1277.
Zur Frage der nördlichen Ausdehnung des Alten Jüdischen Friedhofs auf dem Mainzer Judensand
You can now read a new blog post by Christoph Cluse and Stefanie Fuchs via Historia Judaica about the extensions of the medieval Jewish cemetery in Mainz (in German).
Review of Rainer J. Barzen’s “Taqqanot Qehillot Šum”
Christoph Cluse has published his German review of Rainer J. Barzens’ Taqqanot Qehillot Šum. Die Rechtssatzungen der jüdischen Gemeinden Mainz, Worms und Speyer im hohen und späten Mittelalter. 2 vols. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Hebräische Texte aus dem mittelalterlichen Deutschland, 2 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019.
Review of Mordechai Z. Cohen’s “The Rule of ‘Peshat'”
You can now read Katrin Kogman-Appel’s review of Mordechai Z. Cohen’s The Rule of “Peshat.” Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
Review of Abel Lamauvinière’s “Les juifs et le judaïsme à Troyes”
You can now read Bruno Saint-Sorny’s review of Abel Lamauvinière, Les juifs et le judaïsme à Troyes du XIe au XIVe siècle (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021) via Francia Recensio.
Exhibition: Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua
Read a report on the Exhibition “Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua” by Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD via Seforim blog.