This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of the high technological level of printing among medieval Spanish Jews.
Prof. Katrin Kogman Appel
Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Jewish Studies, Westfälische
Wilhelms Universität Münster
April 24 , 2022
12:15 Israel TimeZOOM
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This workshop of the Research Group Gender/Queer and Jewish Studies at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany takes place in Berlin between 20 June 2023 and 23 June 2023.
Read this post from issue 55 of the printed edition of Genizah Fragments, published in April 2008, by Stefan C. Reif.
Listen to this interview in the New Books Network.
This new post is an interview with Nehemia Gordon.
The 52nd Koldewey Conference, which will take place in Strasbourg from 25 to 29 May 2022, will deal with sacred buildings as ‘speaking’ witnesses of Jewish history. Medieval buildings will also be discussed, in the lectures by Stefanie Fuchs (Sprechen Mikwen? Bauforschung, Archäologie und weitere Quellen zu mittelalterlichen jüdischen Ritualbädern im deutschen Sprachraum), Ulrich Klein (Die Ausgrabung der mittelalterlichen Synagoge von Marburg), Christian Kayser (Lebendes Wasser und sprechende Steine. Die Mikwe von Worms) and Carla Heym (Die mittelalterliche Synagoge in Rouffach)
You can join online:
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Kenncode: 061926
Sponsored by the research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe
GREETINGS
Elisheva Baumgarten, HUJI
Moshe Blidstein, University of Haifa
SPEAKERS
Rowan Dorin (Stanford University ), Naama Cohen-Hanegbi (Tel-Aviv University), Lee Mordechai (HUJI), Tzafrir Barzilay (University of Haifa)
Monday, April 25th, 2022
18:30
Rabin Building, Room 3001
Mount Scopus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This digital volume features a review essay by Hans-Jörg Gilomen on Magda Teter’s book Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UniversityPress, 2020.
The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati (UC) has opened up a call that also applies for scholars of medieval Jewish Studies.
Deadline: 8 April 2022
