Read the review of Eric Lawee’s book ‘And Moses Hid His Face’: Isaac Abarbanel and Maimonides on the Nature of Prophecy via the Seforim blog.
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Maimonides on the Book of Exodus
Listen to Alec Goldstein talking about his book Maimonides on the Book of Exodus via the New Books Network.
New Book: Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations
Read this new edition: Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations. Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium, ed. Giuseppe Veltri, Giada Coppola, and Florian Dunklau. Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion, 5 (Brill, 2025).
13th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Conference (Zoom), 2 April 2025
According the the annoucement, “the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino in and beyond the home, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. How has Ladino taken shape within domestic worlds and how has Ladino adapted in transit, carried from one home to the next?”
The Illustrated Cairo Genizah
Read via the Medievalists.net about the new book The Illustrated Cairo Genizah by Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee (Gorgias Press, 2024).
Talk: Nicolò Bucaria, Monte San Giuliano. Eine kleine jüdische Gemeinde in Westsizilien im späten Mittelalter
3 February 2025
Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Nicolò Bucaria (Luxemburg) will speak about “Monte San Giuliano. Eine kleine jüdische Gemeinde in Westsizilien im späten Mittelalter” at Trier University, 18:15 CET. For a Zoom link, please register with cluse@uni-trier.de or muellerj@uni-trier.de.
New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Fragment of the Month January 2025
Read the new Post of the Genizah Research Unit with the Fragment of the Month January 2025 on Rabbi Isaiah HaLevi ben Mishaʾel: The Rambam’s Brother-in-Law and His Two Works.
AAJR Baron Book Prize
According to their call, “the American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize ($3,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish studies.
Eligibility: An academic book in English, in any area of Jewish studies published in calendar year 2024. The work must be the author’s first scholarly book. Authors must have received their Ph.D. within the previous ten years, no earlier than 2014.”
Deadline: 31 January 2025.
“Habent sua fata fragmenta”. Festschrift in Honour of Mauro Perani
Read now the new book “Habent sua fata fragmenta”. Festschrift in Honour of Mauro Perani Offered by Friends and Colleagues, ed. Emma Abate, Saverio Campanini, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, and Giuseppe Veltri. European Genizah Texts and Studies, 7 (Brill, 2025).
Simcha Emanuel, The Responsa of Rashba: Bringing Order to a Maze of Manuscripts
Read now the new article by Simcha Emanuel, “The Responsa of Rashba: Bringing Order to a Maze of Manuscripts,” Tarbiz 90.2 (2024): 233–303 (Hebrew).