Issue 9.2 (2021) features several articles, among them Justine Isserles’s “The Twenty-Four Egyptian Days in Yiddish” (see https://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/1143) with medieval content.
Monthly Archives: November 2021
New Publication: Amelie Sagasser, Juden und Judentum im Spiegel karolingischer Rechtstexte (Berlin, 2021).
Published by Peter Lang, Amelie Sagasser’s new study of Ashkenazi Jewry in the Early Middle Ages explores the perception, and representation, of Jews and Judaism particularly in Carolingian legal texts.
Researcher of the Week
Ortal-Paz Saar, PhD
Utrecht University
The Netherlands
Continue reading Researcher of the Week“I am a cultural historian focusing on Judaic Studies, especially during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. My research covers two main fields: the first is magic and rituals, and the second is funerary culture. Both fields, although distinct in the nature of their sources and themes, share an interest in questions of identity and interreligious contacts.
Online Lecture: ‘Medieval Anglo-Jewry & the English Ritual Murder Allegations’
As part of the ‘Academic Keynotes’ series at the University of Huddersfield, organised by the Centre for History, Culture and Memory, and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association, Dean Irwin will be speaking on the English ritual murder allegations. This will take place virtually on 2 February 2022, and will approach the topic from the perspective of urban history. Registrations is free but required.
PhD student (m/f/d), full-time job, limited to 31.03.2026 (subject to funding approval), Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU, reference code: GK-WiMi_Judaistik2022
Pending final approval, the position of a doctoral candidate is to be filled as part of a joint project of experts in Jewish studies, material research, and information and social sciences at the Free University Berlin. The project is dedicated to an investigation of ritually pure Torah scrolls as an exceptional codicological, theological, and social phenomenon of the Jewish manuscript tradition. As a junior researcher, the jobholder will work closely together with the project staff in setting up a digital repository of knowledge, which will provide Jewish scribal literature, material analyses and paleographic investigations of medieval Torah scrolls as well as interview and film material for a qualitative study on scribes of our time. Within an inspiring working environment the research project offers a close supervision of the dissertation project, international scientific exchange, and a career advancement due to special training in the field of digital editions.
Continue reading PhD student (m/f/d), full-time job, limited to 31.03.2026 (subject to funding approval), Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU, reference code: GK-WiMi_Judaistik2022Blog post: ‘JEWISH WORKERS AND PRISONERS AT THE TOWER OF LONDON’
To coincide with the anniversary of the general expulsion of the Jews from England (1 November 1290), Historic Royal Palaces’s blog featured the work of Dr Rory MacLellan, introducing three medieval Jews who worked, or were imprisoned, at the Tower of London.
New exhibition in Erfurt: Inter Judeos – The Medieval Jewish Quarter in Erfurt. October 28, 2021 – May 22, 2022
In the Middle Ages, the Jewish quarter of Erfurt was located In the heart of the historic city center. It was mainly Jews living there, but Christian residents can be traced in the immediate neighborhood as early as the 13th century. After the first community was completely wiped out in a pogrom of 1349, Jewish families returned to Erfurt around 1354 and lived in the same quarter. The Jewish quarter can be reconstructed well on the basis of archaeological findings, architectural features and written sources.
They paint a vivid picture of Jewish life in the Middle Ages and form the basis of the current special exhibition, which is shown in the Old Synagogue of Erfurt, situated directly in the Jewish residential quarter.
Continue reading New exhibition in Erfurt: Inter Judeos – The Medieval Jewish Quarter in Erfurt. October 28, 2021 – May 22, 2022Virtual Workshop “Artists and Philologists: the Scribes of Micrographic Illustrations in Bibles and Prayer Books” Corpus Masoreticum (Heidelberg), 2 Nov 2021
The workshop, organized by Prof. Hanna Liss (Heidelberg), focuses on Hebrew paleography with special emphasis on the script of Masoretic notes and micrographic illustrations. It sets out to shed new light on the scribes of Bibles and Prayer books who added the micrographic illustrations.
