Jewish Quarterly Review 113.2 (2023) is now available with some medieval content.
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowship Program at the National Library of Israel
In 2023, the new National Library of Israel campus will open in Jerusalem. The Stewart and Lynda Resnick Fellowship, which will launch in the new NLI building, will be awarded to two (2) senior scholars who wish to engage with one or more of the Library’s core collections: Israel, Judaica, Islam and the Middle East, Humanities, and/or Israeli and Jewish Music. The Fellowship program is designed to enable senior international scholars to conduct on-site research at the National Library of Israel for the purpose of their research.
We are now accepting applications for the Resnick Fellowship Program’s inaugural cohort, which will take place in the Spring/Summer semester of 2023-2024.
Deadline: 30 June 2023.
Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, purchased for $38.1 million
Read about the recent auctioning of the Codex Sassoon.
Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature in Judaism, Islam and Christianity (c.600-c.900), online and at the University of St Andrews, 5–6 June 2023
Have a look at this interesting program. You may particiapte online.
Continue reading Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature in Judaism, Islam and Christianity (c.600-c.900), online and at the University of St Andrews, 5–6 June 2023The Language of Dying: Jewish Women’s Wills in the Premodern Mediterranean
You can now watch Rena Lauer’s talk “The Language of Dying: Jewish Women’s Wills in the Premodern Mediterranean” via The Jewish Language Project.
Online Event: British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch, 19 June 2023
Ilana Tahan OBE, Lead Curator Hebrew and Christian Orient Collections, The British Library, will lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on Manuscripts in Interfaith Contexts on British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch.
Podcast Episode about Oded Zinger’s Book “Living with the Law”
Listen to a podcast episode about Oded Zinger’s book Living with the Law. Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) via the New Books Network.
New, handwritten Maimonides texts discovered at Cambridge University Library
A Visiting Researcher to Cambridge, José Martínez Delgado, has found previously unknown evidence of the legendary Jewish philosopher writing in a Romance dialect in manuscript fragments dating from the 12th century.

Talk: Ivo Köth, “Ein Frankfurter Geldleiher des 16. Jahrhunderts. Das Kredit- und Geschäftsnetzwerk Simons von Weisenau,” 22 May 2023
Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Ivo Köth will speak about “Ein Frankfurter Geldleiher des 16. Jahrhunderts. Das Kredit- und Geschäftsnetzwerk Simons von Weisenau” (German) at Trier University, 18:15 CET.
For a Zoom link, please register with cluse@uni-trier.de or muellerj@uni-trier.de.
Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies, University of Rochester
The Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester invites applications for a full-time appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in Jewish Studies. This is a two-year position anticipated to begin in August 2023. The teaching load is 3-3.
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