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)
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)
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.
Hier ist eine Rezension von Jörg R. Müller zu Marie Buňatová (Hg.): Migrationsprozesse und Mobilität der europäischen Juden am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.
Read now the new issue of Sephardic Horizons 15.3 (2025).
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).
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.
Edited by Vlad Bedros, Barbara Crostini, Andrei Dumitrescu, and Chana Shacham-Rosby
Brill, 2026
From the publisher: The versatile figure of Elijah as Jewish prophet, Christian saint and Muslim “green man” plays at once a controversial and a unifying role across cultures. This collection of essays delves into the rich Elijah traditions that connect late-antique Mesopotamia to modern Europe. It emphasizes how Elijah’s many-sided character cannot be explained by his sparse mentions in the Bible. His enormous popularity rather depends on a network of artistic and performative interpretations that developed in different traditions and were divulged through cultic practices and feasts in which Elijah was the protagonist.

You can now read the feature “Medieval England’s Coin-Clipping Scandal: The 1279 Mass Execution of Jews” by Lorris Chevalier via Medievalists.
PD Dr Eveline Brugger (Institute for Jewish History in Austria) will edit a special issue entitled “Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations” for the journal Religion. The issue invites contributions examining the significance of polemics, conversion, or their interplay in shaping medieval Jewish–Christian relations from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.”
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 28.02.2026
Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 15 November 2026
Princeton University Press, January 2026.
From the publisher: “In this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a new history of slavery and the slave trade in the medieval Middle East. These documents—which range from the everyday correspondence of traveling merchants to legal queries sent to Jewish jurists—provide the richest surviving archive for the social history of slavery during the centuries when Cairo was an imperial and commercial capital at the intersection of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. Perry draws on this archive, known as the Cairo Geniza, to shed new light on such crucial topics as the slave trade in state diplomacy, the entanglements of gender and household slavery, and the lives of the enslaved.”
