PAMLA, Seattle, November 12-15, 2026. Organizers are still seeking submissions for this panel. Abstracts may be submitted until June 30th.
Monthly Archives: May 2026
Talk: »Frühneuzeitliches Lachen über oder sogar mit Juden in der Schwankliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts: Problematische Beziehungen literarisch reflektiert«
1 June 2026, 16:15 CET
Within the Colloquium “Arbeitskreis für Jüdische Geschichte des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit,” Albrecht Classen (Tucson/AZ) will speak about »Frühneuzeitliches Lachen über oder sogar mit Juden in der Schwankliteratur des 16. Jahrhunderts: Problematische Beziehungen literarisch reflektiert« at Trier University, 16:15 CET.
https://uni-trier.zoom-x.de/j/64506740626?pwd=EjpAFKGNODTI8MifhEf7Gh7uzHVSPN.1
Meeting-ID: 645 0674 0626
Kenncode: WUckD1v0
GRU week in review: 15 May 2026
Read Melonie-Schmierer Lee’s new post “GRU week in review: 15 May 2026”.
New Book — A Jewish Physician’s Response to the Black Death: Abraham Caslari’s ‘Tractate on Pestilential Fevers and Fever Types’
Edited and translated by Susan L. Einbinder
Arc Humanities Press, Foundations series, May 2026.
GRU week in review: the longest letter and smallest fragment?
Read ;elonie Schmierer-Lee’s post about “GRU week in review: the longest letter and smallest fragment?””
Queen’s University – Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoc Fellowship in Jewish History
“According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Studies Program in association with the Department of History at Queen’s University invites applications for the Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Jewish History. The temporal and thematic area of specialization is open and includes any area of research related to Jewish history. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar with a completed PhD who has a record of outstanding teaching. The fellowship is from 1 September 2026 – 31 August 2028. A postdoctoral supervisor will be named based on the successful candidate’s field of specialization.”
Deadline: 27 April 2026.
How to Read Mishnah and Midrash
You can now listen to a podcast about Ishay Rosen-Zvi (translated by Daniel Tabak) book How to Read Mishnah and Midrash. An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature via the New Books Network.
New article — “Rachel Was Shapely and Beautiful: A Jewish Woman in Hostile Archives,” by Adrienne Williams Boyarin
Aschkenas, vol. 36 (1), May 23, 2026.
This article examines the life of Rachel Lumbard of Nottingham, a Jewish woman who appears in English national records from 1221–1251. Placing Rachel’s “archival debris” in the context of critical archival studies, recent work on “hostile archives,” and the difficulties of writing ordinary women’s histories, it uses the legal and financial remnants of Rachel and her family, along with critical imagination and informed speculation, to construct a narrative about her business networks, household, choices, and fate.
New Book — Coexistence in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies: Politics, Trade and Culture in Anatolia and Iberia, ed. by Ahmet Usta and Ömer Fatih Parlak
Routledge, May 2026.
The volume contains several essays relevant to medieval Jewish studies.
New Book: The Medieval Lincoln Jewry, ed. by Dean A. Irwin
Arc Humanities Press, May 2026.
With articles by Dean Irwin, Christopher Johnson, E. M. Rose, Pinchas Roth, Julie L. Mell, and Natasha Jenman.
