Read this new blog post article by Christoph Cluse about “Structures of Opportunity and the Impact of Repression. Migration and the Emergence of the Ashkenazi Diaspora in Eastern Europe” via Historia Judaica.
Monthly Archives: July 2024
The Jews of Medieval England: Life, Violence, and Expulsion
Listen to the new podcast episode about “The Jews of Medieval England: Life, Violence, and Expulsion (ft. Prof. John Tolan)” via Sforim Chatter.
Oded Israeli discussing Ramban (1194–1270)
You can now listen to a podcast via the Seforim Chatter with Oded Israeli discussing Ramban (1194 – 1270).
Call for papers for an in-person session on Jewish women in the Middle Ages at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in 2025
The deadline to submit abstracts is September 15th, 2024. These can be submitted through the ICMS conference portal, which is accessible here.

Old Yiddish Scholarship in the Past, Present, and Future: An Interview with Chava Turniansky
The journal In Geveb has published an interview with Chava Turniansky and Chaya Alyada about Old Yiddish scholarship.
New Book: The Rabbis of Medieval Spain by Norman Roth

CfA: Tenure-Track Positions at the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University invites outstanding candidates to apply for tenure-track positions.
CfA: Postdoctoral Scholarships at the University of Haifa
The University of Haifa offers two Postdoctoral Scholarships for the academic Year 2024-2025.
Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship Claiming Authorial Agency in Rabbinic Literature and Medieval Midrash, 5-6 December 2024 @ Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
According to the organizers, this workshop “focuses on different aspects of authoriality, authorial agency, and new more nuanced concepts of medieval authorship in rabbinic literature early medieval midrashic texts (2nd to 10th centuries CE). It approaches them also with a comparative perspective to Judaeo-Arabic literary production, in which novel notions of authorship emerge.”
Deadline: 31 July 2024.
Brandeis Mandel Center Doctoral Fellows Program
The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University has opened its call for applications for its Doctoral Fellows Program.