There is a new book volume out you can now read: Strangers in the Land. Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christians, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times, ed. Miriam L. Hjälm and Marzena Zawanowska. Studies on the Children of Abraham, 11 (Brill, 2024).
Monthly Archives: June 2024
“Jewish Life in Medieval Spain” Book Talk
You can now watch the “Jewish Life in Medieval Spain” Book Talk with Jonathan Ray.
Halakhah for the Ages
Rachel Furst gave 9 video lecture about “Halakhah for the Ages? Reading Responsa from a Bygone Era” – how to read responsa.
Crate Expectations
Read about the many small fragments the Cairo geniza still holds and that are not yet identified. Melonie Schmierer-Lee expalins this via the blog of the Genizah Research Unit.
Medieval Jewish Prayer Book on Display at Faith Museum
Read about medieval siddur that is now on public display at The Faith Museum.
Creating Holiness – Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness, 17-20th June International Conference, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz
From June 17-20, the international conference “Creating Holiness” will bring together researchers from across the world to discuss questions of what turns a book – or an icon of the Eastern churches – into a sacred object in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist cultures, and how sacredness is connected to the material.
Doctoral Fellows Program at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education
The Doctoral Fellows Program is designed to provide advanced doctoral students from North American and Israeli universities with substantial support in their research endeavors related to Jewish education.
Jewish History Seminar, Arye Maimon Institut for Jewish History – Mailing List
The Arye Maimon Institute of Jewish History at Trier University holds a regular “Jewish History Seminar” to discuss current research in medieval and early modern Jewish history. It generally takes place in person and online on Mondays between 6 and 8 pm (European time). Its ‘hybrid’ format makes it possible to involve people from all over the globe to take part. If you are interested in joining us, please send an e-mail to cluse [at] uni-trier [dot] de.
Der „Arbeitskreis Jüdische Geschichte“ des Arye Maimon-Instituts trifft sich regelmäßig online und in Präsenz, um aktuelle Forschungen zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit zu diskutieren. Die Diskussionsabende finden in der Regel montags zwischen 18 und 20 Uhr MEZ statt. Das „hybride“ Format macht es möglich, Interessierte aus allen Teilen der Welt zu beteiligen. Wer Interesse an der Teilnahme hat, wende sich bitte per Mail an cluse [at] uni-trier [dot] de.
Worskhop: Jewish Life in Late Medieval Vienna – Comparative Perspectives, June 17–18, 2024
New Issue of the Journal Aschkenas
The new issue of Aschkenas 34.1 (2024) has an article by Maria Stürzebecher about “Das Jüdisch-Mittelalterliche Erbe in Erfurt auf der Welterbeliste”: On September 17, 2023, the Jewish Medieval Heritage in Erfurt was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee chaired by Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. This brought a decades-long process to its provisional conclusion, in which research into the history of the Jewish community in Erfurt in the Middle Ages and its material evidence had been intensified in preparation for the World Heritage application and also during the evaluation, thus leading to a great increase in knowledge. This process should and must continue, but an (interim) conclusion can be drawn in this paper.