The Museum Schauplatz Brunngasse is looking for a curator from 1 April 2024. Schauplatz Brunngasse is a young museum in a 700-year-old building in Zurich’s old town. At its centre are murals that were commissioned by a Jewish family around 1330. This work of art is a rare testimony to everyday Jewish culture in the Middle Ages in Europe.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
“Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” – Summer Skills Seminar (8-11 July: remote)
The Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars, and professionals with the foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies. The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by supplementary and contextual topics. This Summer Skills Seminar provides participants with and introduction to and overview of Sephardic thought from the 11th to 17th centuries, with representative readings in rabbinics, polemic, poetry, historiography, travel narrative, mysticism, and philosophy.
Application deadline: April 15, 2024
Video Book Launch of Jordan S. Penkower’s New Book
Watch the video of the book launch for Jordan S. Penkower’s new book The History of Rashi’s Commentary on the Bible (Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik 2023) (Hebrew).
Online Talk by Amir Ashur about „The Indian Ocean Trade as reflected in the Cairo Geniza“
Take part in this online talk by Dr. Amir Ashur (Haifa/Tel Aviv/Princeton) about „The Indian Ocean Trade as reflected in the Cairo Geniza“ at the Arye Maimon Institute, Trier University, on 7 February 2024, 18:15 CEST. The talk is organised by TRANSMARE Institute.
To do so, please register with Dr. Christoph Cluse cluse@uni-trier.de or Dr. Jörg Müller muellerj@uni-trier.de for the Zoom link.
New Review of John Tolan’s “England’s Jews”
You can now read Hannah Teddy Schachter’s review of John Tolan’S book England’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) in the Journal of Social History.
Online Talk by Vera Henkelmann about „Light(s) and the Medieval City“
Take part in this online talk by Vera Henkelmann (Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt) about “Light(s) and the Medieval City” at Bar Ilan University, Dep. of Jewish Art, on January 10 at 4pm Israel time. Vera Henkelmann is a noted expert of medieval art, focusing on decorative lamps, mirrors and other artistic objects.
Zoom Link: https://biu-ac-il.zoom.us/j/8380737322?pwd=djZRQU1xMFdLN0RNdGxVeG5FSmlhdz09
Online Talk by Susanne Weigand about “Geld kennt keine Freunde? Soziale Netzwerke und ihr Einfluss auf das alltägliche Wirtschaftsleben” (in German)
Take part in this online talk by Susanne Weigand about “Geld kennt keine Freunde? Soziale Netzwerke und ihr Einfluss auf das alltägliche Wirtschaftsleben” at the Arye Maimon Institute, Trier University, on 22 January 2024, 18:15 CEST.
To do so, please register with Dr. Christoph Cluse cluse@uni-trier.de or Dr. Jörg Müller muellerj@uni-trier.de for the Zoom link.
USHMM Digital Humanities Asociate Fellowship
The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education are pleased to invite applications for the Bella and Murray Ressler Digital Humanities Fellowship Program, designed for students currently enrolled in a master’s degree program or completing their undergraduate education. Students who have completed more than one year of doctoral work will not be considered.
Continue reading USHMM Digital Humanities Asociate FellowshipNew Issue of Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal (JSIJ) 23 (2023)
This volume contains several publication relevant to medieval Jewish studies.
Netuim, vol. 24-25 (2023)
The new volume of Netium contains an article by Simcha Emanuel, “New Fragments of the Writings of Rabbi Isaac ben Melchizedek of Siponto,” pp. 1-21 (Hebrew).