The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher for a 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship to support data creation and metadata management for the Digital Scriptorium Catalog.
Monthly Archives: September 2025
Journal of Jewish Studies 76.2
The new issue of Journal of Jewish Studies 76.2 (2025) is out and it has some medieval content as well.
Boston College Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Jewish Studies
According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Studies Program at Boston College invites applicants for a Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Jewish Studies.”
Deadline: 2 November 2025.
CfP: Interne Organisation und Außenkommunikation jüdischer Gemeinschaften in der Frühen Neuzeit
Here is the call for papers for a conference on “Interne Organisation und Außenkommunikation jüdischer Gemeinschaften in der Frühen Neuzeit”, organized by the Forum Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim). The conference focuses on the history of Jewish communities after their expulsions in the late Middle Ages and examines how these communities coped with the challenges of a new beginning in the Early Modern period.
Deadline: 19.10.2025.
Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Ph. Brown: Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile
You can now read the new book by Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Ph. Brown, Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025).
New Volume of Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA) 95 (2024)
You can nw read the new Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA) 95 (2024), including some medieval content as well.
Ross Brann: Moses Maimonides
You can now read Ross Brann’s book Moses Maimonides. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford Academic Press, 2025).
Sarah Ifft Decker wins the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies’ best article prize (2024)
“The Widow and the Notary: Death, Gender, and Legal Culture in the Jewish and Christian Communities of Medieval Catalonia,” by Sarah Ifft Decker, is the winner of the JMIS Best article Prize for 2024.
Exhibition: Materialisierte Heiligkeit. Jüdische Buchkunst im rituellen Kontext

19 October 2025 – 25 January 2026, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 8
The Stabi Kulturwerk is presenting selected Hebrew manuscripts from the important Hebraica collection of the Berlin State Library in a new special exhibition. The exhibition offers fascinating insights into the world of Jewish book art and impressively showcases not only masterful design and artistic craftsmanship, but also the cultural and ritual diversity of the contexts in which they were created.
Outstanding pieces come from the famous Erfurt Collection, including artistic micrographs, traces of Christian Hebraism and evidence of ritual Torah production. Among other things, visitors can see the largest Hebrew Bible of the Middle Ages, two exceptionally well-preserved Ashkenazi Torah scrolls and a large-format prayer book from the 14th century.
Ryan Spziech: Carnal Israel? The Medieval Conceit of Jews as Organs in the Social Body
You can now read Ryan Spziech’s article “Carnal Israel? The Medieval Conceit of Jews as Organs in the Social Body,” in: The Hermeneutical Jew: Essays on Inter-Religious Encounters in Honour of Jeremy Cohen, ed. Ram Ben-Shalom and Yosi Yisraeli (Turnhout: Brepols, 2025), pp. 255–84.