Monthly Archives: May 2025

Database: Hebrew and Latin Charters from the Cologne Jewish Shrine Book (St. Laurenz Parish)

This digital edition compiled by Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Innsbruck University, provides first-time access to the entire corpus of Hebrew and a large selection of Latin charters from the so-called Judenschreinsbuch of Cologne’s St. Laurenz parish, dating from 1235 to 1347. These documents reflect key legal and social transactions in the medieval Jewish quarter – from property sales to marriage contracts – and illustrate everyday interactions between Jewish and Christian communities.
The database is intended user-friendly, and the tanscriptions and translations are available for download. Over three quarters of the documents are currently accessible, with the remaining ones being added continuously.

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Jordan Schnizler Book Awards (AJS)

These awards, offered by the Association for Jewish Studies, have annually recognized and promoted outstanding scholarship in the field of Jewish Studies and honored scholars whose work embodies the best in the field: rigorous research, theoretical sophistication, innovative methodology, and excellent writing. The AJS annually awards one winner and one finalist in each of four categories.

Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture is one of the submission categories. The other categories are Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania, and Philosophy and Jewish Thought.

Deadline: Tuesday, July 1, 2025.