Monthly Archives: January 2023

Call for Articles: Premodern Judaism in Religion Compass

Call for Papers

Religion Compass, an online journal from Wiley, is seeking to expand its content in premodern Judaism. Religion Compass publishes original, peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline which summarize the state of the field for non-specialists.  Compass articles are usually commissioned, but we will consider submissions from the field.  They can discuss recent research or debates in a field, provide a comparative look across boundaries/disciplines, or offer a fresh perspective on a controversial topic.  

Religion Compass is designed to help all academics and advanced students involved in teaching and research to:   

  • Teach in a new or unfamiliar area
  • Keep up with developments in your own field and areas related to it
  • Ensure that students are exposed only to quality-controlled online content

If you are interested in pitching an article on a topic related to global premodern Judaism or Jewish cultures, please contact the Section Editor, Sarah Ifft Decker (ifftdeckers@rhodes.edu) with a proposed title and short abstract, so we can work together on framing the article appropriately for the journal. Articles are usually 3500-5000 words, and Religion Compass can offer a quick turnaround from submission to publication (as little as 3 months).

Researcher of the Week

Researcher of the Week

Pelia Werth

PhD candidate in History
Johns Hopkins University
Supervisor: Prof. Anne Lester

“My doctoral research combines two of my major interests – interfaith relations in the Middle Ages and the practice and experience of pilgrimage. My thesis examines pilgrimage sites that were ‘shared’ by Jews, Muslims, and Christians in and around the crusader period (c. 1050-1300). Specifically, I am interested in how sharing sacred space allowed members of different religious communities to encounter one another, and how experiences and conceptions of such spaces helped shape perceptions of people from other religious and ethnic groups.

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Graduate Research Funding Opportunities by the American Academy for Jewish Research

Call for Applications

AAJR provides grants of up to $4,000 for graduate student summer research. The funds are not intended for language study or equipment.  The grant is open to Ph.D. graduate students in any field of Jewish studies at a North American university who have submitted their Ph.D. Dissertation prospectus and have a demonstrated need for materials from archival, library, or manuscript collections or for ethnographic research.

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Talk: «Brûlé par le feu»: le Talmud en France et ses chemins de survie by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Events, Talk

16 March 2023, 18 h 30 – 20 h, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Richelieu – Salle des conférences; 5, rue Vivienne – 75002 Paris

Abrégé du Talmud d’Asher ben Jehiel, vers 1480, Milan. BnF, département des Manuscrits – – BnF

As part of the Léopold Delisle Lectures, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger dedicates two sessions to medieval Hebrew manuscripts from Northern France. This second session examines in detail two emblematic copies of the Babylonian Talmud that escaped destruction.

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