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At the beginning of this year, a mikveh was discovered in Chemnitz during archaeological investigations on the edge of the Chemnitz city center. It is a brick structure with a rectangular basin into which two steps lead down. Neither the archaeological context nor the construction method allows concrete conclusions about the age; the mikveh seems to be late medieval or early modern.
Continue reading Report from the Workshop on the recently found Mikveh in ChemnitzRead the papers of Entangled Religions 13.3 (2022): Jewish Encounters in the Persianate World from the Sassanians to the Safavids with some medieval Jewish Studies content.
This new book on Jewish Studies in the Digital Age is available as open access publication.
Read the new post on the blog of the Genizah Research Unit about reconstructing the Jerusalem Talmud.
Review of applications will begin October 24, 2022 and will continue until the position is filled.
Thursday, 22 September 2022, 6.15 pm
September 29, 5:00 PM (ET)
The “Religion and Writing” seminar at Columbia University investigates the roles of literacy and writing in religious traditions.
On November 14, Isabelle Levy will present on “Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean” (book discussion).
The Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice, ed. Oliver Laeman was just published via Routledge.
This conference has some medieval Jewish Studies papers as well. In case of sufficient demand through online registration, the conference may be held hyrid.
