Monthly Archives: April 2024

International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School, July 28–August 12, Jerusalem

The First International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024.

The intensive courses about Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo, Spanyolit) the Sephardi language and culture will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, Spanish, Musicology, Sociology, Anthropology and more. The courses include tours in Jerusalem, visits to Ladino collections, archival work and field work with Ladino speakers with origins in Israel, Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. 

Talk: Florian Datz, „Böser Wucher“: Politische Funktionalisierung literarischer Wuchertopoi in Nürnberg vor 1499

29 April 2024

Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Florian Datz will speak about „Böser Wucher“: Politische Funktionalisierung literarischer Wuchertopoi in Nürnberg vor 1499 at Trier University, 18:15 CET. For a Zoom link, please register with cluse@uni-trier.de or muellerj@uni-trier.de.

Migration of Jews in the Late Middle Ages. The example of Erfurt

By Maike Lämmerhirt, University of Erfurt

(English/Deutsch)

The DFG-funded project “Migration of Jews in the Late Middle Ages. The example of Erfurt” at the University of Erfurt will run until the end of 2024. The project focuses on Jewish families in Erfurt and their lives and changes of residence in the period from 1354 to 1453.

Erfurt, the economic and ecclesiastical center of Thuringia, was home to the oldest Jewish community in the region. The heyday of Jewish life in Thuringia only began after the pogrom wave of 1349. For the period before 1349, the sources regarding migration movements only allow the places of origin of Jewish families in Erfurt to be determined. In contrast, numerous sources have survived from the decades following the re-establishment of the Jewish community in 1354, in which some families are visible over several generations. Some of them can also be traced to earlier or later places of residence. Although the city of Erfurt was subject to the Archbishop of Mainz, the Erfurt city council acted increasingly independently, proving itself to be a mediator between the archbishop and the Jewish community and even a political actor that made its own decisions regarding the Jews in the city. In 1453, for example, it was the council that withdrew protection from the Jews and enforced this against the archbishop.

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Research Colloquium of the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, Summer term 2024

Das Forschungskolloquium der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg bietet im Sommersemester 2024 einen Einblick in die Vielfalt der Jüdischen Studien: Die Themen reichen von der jüdischen Diaspora-Geschichte bis zu den Israel-Studien; die disziplinären Zugänge umfassen unter anderem die Migrationssoziologie,  die Literaturwissenschaft oder die Jüdische Religionspädagogik. Neben der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg kommen zahlreiche Referentinnen und Referentinnen von anderen Standorten zu Wort, darunter die Universität Heidelberg, Brandeis, die Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, die Universität Tel Aviv und die American University. Neben judaistischen Vorträgen finden sich zahlreiche Beiträge zu hochgradig politischen Themenfeldern, darunter die jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen, der arabisch-israelische Friedensprozess sowie theologische und postkoloniale Perspektiven auf den Nahostkonflikt.