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.