On June 8-9, 2022, the project „Aschkenasische Juden im späten Mittelalter. Bewältigungs-, Anpassungs- und Transformationspotentiale regionaler Netzwerke“ („ Ashkenazi Jews in the Late Middle Ages. Coping, Adaptation and Transformation Potentials of Regional Networks “ ) will hold a workshop on ‚Disruption‘ und ‚Resilienz‘ in der aschkenasisch-jüdischen Geschichte, 14.–16. Jh (‚Disruption‘ and ‚Resilience‘ in Ashkenazi Jewish History, 14th-16th cent.s) at the Weberbach City Library (Trier, Germany).
Monthly Archives: May 2022
David R. Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies
Brill welcomes applications for the David R. Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies. You can apply with “book-length manuscripts in Jewish Studies that utilize historical, literary, and philological methods for the study of Jewish life in the Islamic world as well as medieval Jewish Studies generally.”
Deadline: 1 June 2022
CFA: Two Part-time Doctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowships at Goethe University, Frankfurt
The Institute of Judaic Studies invites applications for two part-time positions (50% and 75% part-time) at the Ph.D. and postdoc levels to begin in October 2022.
- 50% position: Early modern and/or modern history (Yiddish desired)
- 75% position: Medieval Judaism and/or rabbinic studies (Aramaic desired)
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Saadya Gaon’s Refutation of Anan or a Qaraite Book of Commandments? T-S Ar.21.156, T-S Ar.48.216 and T-S NS 303.1 by Nadia Vidro
Read the new Fragment of the Month post on the Cambridge University’s Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit blog.
New Volume of the Journal Kabbalah 53 (2022)
The new volume also has some medieval Jewish studies content.
Reuter Lecture 2022 by Irven M. Resnick: A Wet-nurse Controversy: Jews, Christians, and later Medieval ‘Racism’
This event will be held on 31 May 2022, 18:00–19:30 BST, in a hybrid format at the Parkes Institute, University of Southhampton.
Online Workshop on Judeo-Persian Literature, 6 and 7 December 2022
This workshop at Cornell University will cover the “vast corpus of writings composed in different dialects and genres by the Jews of Persia from the 8th to 20th century”–and, therefore, has medieval Jewish Studies content as well.
Deadline: 10 June 2022
Melonie Schmierer-Lee: “Schechter Day 2022: A Cutting Accusation”
Read the new post by Melonie Schmierer-Lee about “Schechter Day 2022: A Cutting Accusation” on the Blog of the Genizah Research Unit.
Rückkehr nach Aschkenas (Return to Ashkenaz) Conference 29+30 May 2022 in Berlin
Touching upon the Middle Ages, this conference organized by the Tikvah Institute Berlin follows the traces of Ashkenazic Jewries.
New Book by Annett Martini: ›Arbeit des Himmels‹. Jüdische Konzeptionen rituellen Schreibens in der europäischen Kultur des Mittelalters.
The subject of this study is the manufacturing of ritually pure scrolls in medieval European culture as an extraordinary codicological, theological and social phenomenon of the Jewish scribal tradition. The author focuses on the highly idealized perception of the rabbinic tradition regarding the relationship between material, purity and holiness in the context of writing, as well as a rich commentarial literature that deals with the symbolic meaning of the material elements from an ethical-philosophical, mystical or magical perspective.
The multi-faceted writing literature, which has previously received little attention in research, testifies to diverse interactions between the Jewish and the non-Jewish society. The author discusses the far-reaching process of transformation of scribal literature in medieval Ashkenaz against the background of Christian book culture and the ambivalent Jewish-Christian relationship of that era.
Annett Martini, ›Arbeit des Himmels‹. Jüdische Konzeptionen rituellen Schreibens in der europäischen Kultur des Mittelalters. Studia Juaica 115 (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2022).
