Read the new Fragment of the Month, December 2025, article about “FOTM ‘Cursive, foiled again’: Mezuzot CUL T-S A44.36 and CUL T-S AS 11.52″ by Marc Michaels.
Category Archives: Publications
Four articles relevant to medieval Jewish studies published in Speculum
The centennial issue of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (“Speculations,” January 2026) includes four short articles relevant to the study of medieval Jews: “Entanglement, Identity, and Difference: Medieval Jews in Christian Europe,” by Elisheva Baumgarten; “The Two Faces of Medieval Jewish Studies,” by Rachel Katz and Lucy Pick; “Medieval England’s Jewish Diaspora and Critical Archival Studies,” by Adrienne Williams Boyarin; and “Goitein, the Indian Ocean, and a Missed Opportunity to Make Medieval History Global,” by Marina Rustow.

Sivan Gottlieb: The Iconography of the Brain in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
You can onw read the new article by Sivan (Sadrines) Gottlieb, “The Iconography of the Brain in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts,” Zmanim 153 (2025): 30–43. (Hebrew).
New book — Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Jessalyn L. Bird and Rita George-Tvrtković
Brill, December 2025
This volume will introduce advanced students and non-specialists to various historical interactions between Christians, Jews, and Muslims within the frame of the “sea at the centre”. Its chronological range is the long central Middle Ages (1000 to 1600 CE), and includes most Mediterranean regions: Iberia, North Africa, the Levant, Asia Minor, the Balkans, Italy, Provence, and the sea itself.

New Article — Sarah Ifft Decker, “Invisible Jews and Jewish monsters: Jews and Jewishness in medieval-inspired media”
This article explores the invisibility of Jews in medieval-inspired films and television shows.
Published in postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (December 2025)
“Their Battlefield is Eight upon Eight”: A Newly-Discovered Hebrew Poem on Chess (T-S Misc. 17.60)
Read the Fragment of the Month article by Noam Sienna about “Their Battlefield is Eight upon Eight”: A Newly-Discovered Hebrew Poem on Chess (T-S Misc. 17.60)” via the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit.
Rezension zu Marie Buňatová (Hg.): Migrationsprozesse und Mobilität der europäischen Juden am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit
Hier ist eine Rezension von Jörg R. Müller zu Marie Buňatová (Hg.): Migrationsprozesse und Mobilität der europäischen Juden am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.
Sephardic Horizons 15.3 (2025) is out now
Read now the new issue of Sephardic Horizons 15.3 (2025).
Jewish Moneylending and Documentary Culture in the Middle Ages II
Out now is the second part of the special issue “Jewish Moneylending and Documentary Culture in the Middle Ages” ed. by Eveline Brugger, Sarah Ifft Decker, and Birgit Wiedl in Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden 35.2 (2025).
Three Different Uses of One Leaf by Rabbi Samuel b. Saʿadiah ha-Levi: Gaster Heb. ms. 1770/18
Read the Fragment of the Month article by Adiel Breuer and Oded Zinger about “Three Different Uses of One Leaf by Rabbi Samuel b. Saʿadiah ha-Levi: Gaster Heb. ms. 1770/18” via the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit.