The new issue of Journal of Jewish Languages 11 (2023) features a review of Arik Sadan’s book The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Book of Job, reviewed by Marzena Zawanowska under the title “A Medieval Karaite Interpretation of The Book of Job as an Edifying Example and Message of Hope for the Exiled” (pp. 115–26).
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Talk: “Los conversos de Valencia: entre la continuidad y la integración (1391-1450),” by Guillermo López Juan (University of Valencia)
June 29, 2023 at 12 PM (CET). The event will be streamed via Zoom (ID 836 1009 3272, Access Code: 180021).

Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize, annually awarding 9 prizes of $300,000 each to early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work.
Continue reading Dan David PrizeBritish 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 speak about “British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch.” You can join online.
Event: Long Night of Science at the Old Synagogue Erfurt
23 June 2023, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
For the Long Night of Science in Erfurt on 23 June 2023, the Erfurt History Museums are offering guided tours under the title: Hunger, Pest, Pogrom. Research methods on the “Crisis of the Late Middle Ages” (Hunger, Pest, Pogrom. Forschungsmethoden zur „Krise des Spätmittelalters”) At 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. building researcher Torsten Lieberenz and curator Maria Stürzebecher will talk about the pogrom of 21 March 1349 and its traces in the Old Synagogue Museum (Der Pogrom vom 21. März 1349 und seine Spuren im Museum Alte Synagoge). If you are in Erfurt or near, come along!
Talk: Die Briefbücher des Erfurter Rates als Quelle – insbesondere zur Geschichte der Juden by Maike Lämmerhirt
20.06.2023 | 18:00 CET
Within the “Kolloquium zur Mittelalterlichen Geschichte” at Erfurt University, Maike Lämmerhirt will speak about “Die Briefbücher des Erfurter Rates als Quelle – insbesondere zur Geschichte der Juden” at Erfurt University.
For a Zoom link, please register with julia.seeberger@uni-erfurt.de.
Conference “History, Memory and Identity among Jewish Communities in the Muslim World” Jerusalem, 19-22 June 2023
An International Conference marking the 75th Anniversary of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East.
Special Issue of Religions: “Interfaith Encounters: Religious Polemics from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period”
This Special Issue is aimed at exploring religious polemics from the phenomenological standpoint, seeking to deepen our understanding of religious polemics in a wide cultural, historical, and social context. The articles will deal with a variety of religious polemics between monotheistic religions, sects, and denominations, as well as with polytheistic involvement in religious polemics. The chronological frame of the articles will encompass the early Middle Ages through to the 19th century. Articles presenting new methodological or comparative perspectives will be especially welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 July 2023
Talk: Sarah Lipton, “Flesh Matters: Circumcision and Hypocrisy in Later Medieval Christian Thought,” 3 July 2023
Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Sarah Lipton will speak about “Flesh Matters: Circumcision and Hypocrisy in Later Medieval Christian Thought” at Trier University.
For a Zoom link, please register with cluse@uni-trier.de or muellerj@uni-trier.de.
Islamic Historiography as Polemic Literature: Deconstructing Biographies of Medieval Jewish Converts
You can now read Amir Mazor’s new article about “Islamic Historiography as Polemic Literature:
Deconstructing Biographies of Medieval Jewish Converts” in Journal of Arabic Literature 54.1-2 (2023): 129–57.