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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Sessions on Collecting and Displaying Medieval Jewish Artefacts and Heritage at IMC 2024 in Leeds
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:15 – 19:00 (GMT +1), Leeds University and online
Session Number 1202 – Collecting and Displaying Medieval Jewish Artefacts and Heritage, I (Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:15 – 16:45)
1202-a – The Alienation of Medieval Jewish Manuscripts from German Public Collections, 1945-1960
William Diebold, Reed College, Oregon
1202-b – The Seder Plates that Weren’t
Julie Harris, Independent Scholar
1202-c – A Medieval Jewish Prayer Book in Texas
Diane Wolfthal, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Session Number 1302 – Collecting and Displaying Medieval Jewish Artefacts and Heritage, II (Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 17:30 – 19:00)
1302-a – The John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Collection and Its Audiences
Zsofia Buda, University of Manchester
1302-b – The Art of Reframing the Narrative: Jewish Material Culture in an Encyclopedic Museum
Abigail H. Meyer, Touro University, New York
1302-c – Renewing the Middle Ages at the ANU Museum, Tel Aviv
Simona di Nepi, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
For more lectures and sessions on Medieval Jewish Studies brows the IMC Programme.
Sessions on Jewish Conversion at IMC 2024 in Leeds
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 15:15 – 19:005 (GMT +1), Leeds University and online
Session Number 725 – Crisis of Faith, I: The Impact of Jewish Conversion on Individuals and Families (Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 15:15 – 16:45)
725-a – Pressburg 1438: The Cases of the Jewish Aunt and the Unbaptised Christian
Eveline Brugger, Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs, St Pölten
725-b – Gender and Inter-Religious Conflicts in the Medieval Family
Ahuva Liberles, Tel Aviv University
725-c – The Mass Conversions of 1391: The Immediate Impact on Individuals Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Session Number 825 – Crisis of Faith, II: Conversion, Apostasy, and Martyrdom in Jewish-Christian Interreligious Conflicts (Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 17:30 – 19:00)
825-a – The London Thirteen, Revisited: Crises of Faith in the 1280s
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, University of Victoria, British Columbia
825-b – Forced Conversion and the Elements of Resistance Myth: Memory and the Rhineland Martyrs
Emilie Amar-Zifkin, University of Toronto
825-c – Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism Irven Resnick, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
For more lectures and sessions on Medieval Jewish Studies brows the IMC Programme.