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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 5h

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
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Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University

Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 5d

Sukkot begins at sunset on 6 October. Here's an image in the margin of a man holding a branch of lulav and an etrog, at Sukkot.
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BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.298v

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 5d

Sukkot begins at sunset on 6 October. Here is a depiction of a Sukkah from 14th century Italy, at the end of the Sukkot liturgy.
#Sukkot
BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.316v

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 2d

The Leo Baeck Institute London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore intersections between German-Jewish and British history, including the history of the British Empire.

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/vacancies

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 2d

New book — Jewish Autonomy in Conflict with Christians in Northern Ethiopia: The Gideonite Dynasty and the Solomonic Kingdom, by Bar Kribus.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 2d

New Book: Dana Eichhorst, Kabbalah from Medieval Ashkenaz and Renaissance Christian Theology: Eleazar of Worms (c. 1165–c. 1238) and Egidio da Viterbo (c. 1469–1532).
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 2d

American Academy for Jewish Research: Baron Book Prize. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2026.
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American Academy for Jewish Research: Baron Book Prize

According ot thier call, “[t]he 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 ...

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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 10d

Jewish studies postdoctoral fellowship at @universityofleeds.bsky.social on post-Holocaust material and visual cultures! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a dynamic person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities/materialities? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustain...

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 10d

Yom Kippur starts at sunset on 1 October. Here is the initial -word, inhabited by dragons and hybrids, at the beginning of Kol Nidrei (All vows).
#YomKippur
BL Oriental 42; 'Dragon's Head Mahzor'; Germany; 14th century; Germany; f.44v

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 10d

Boston College Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Jewish Studies. Deadline: Nov. 2, 2025.
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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. OpenEdition suggests that y...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 10d

NEW BOOK - Ross Brann, Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 10d

NEW BOOK - Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Ph. Brown: Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 13d

From all of us at medievalJewishStudiesNow!
L'shana tova ! לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

Sarah Ifft Decker wins the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies’ best article prize (2024).
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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....

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

New article: Ryan Szpiech, "Carnal Israel? The Medieval Conceit of Jews as Organs in the Social Body."
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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 ...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

CFA: New York University, Visiting Scholar in the study of historical or contemporary antisemitism, Spring 2026. Deadline: October 3, 2025.
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New York University – Visiting Scholar, Spring 2026

According to their call, “[t]he Center for the Study of Antisemitism at New York University is now accepting applications for those who wish to join the Center as visiting scholars during the Spring 2...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

New article: Ilona Steimann, "Beyond the Text: Liturgical Clues in Burgundian Masoretic Manuscripts"
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Ilona Steimann: Beyond the Text: Liturgical Clues in Burgundian Masoretic Manuscripts

You can now read this new paper by Ilona Steimann, “Beyond the Text: Liturgical Clues in Burgundian Masoretic Manuscripts,” corpus masoreticum working papers 9 (2025). OpenEdition suggests that you ci...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

CFA: “[T]he Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for its 2026–27 international fellowship program, a year focused on war and peace in Jewish history, thought, and culture.”
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War and Peace in Jewish Thought and History

According to their call, “[t]he Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for its 2026–27 international fellowship program, a year focused on war a...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 19d

Archaeologists have confirmed the discovery of the remains of a medieval synagogue in Belchite (Zaragoza province, Spain).
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 7

New book — The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, eds. Carson Bay et al.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 7

New book — The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, eds. Carson Bay et al.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 5

New book — Colette Sirat, Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Jewish Culture during the Middle Ages.
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 5

Conference: "Jewish Delinquency" in Medieval Europe
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Conference: »Jewish Delinquency« in Medieval Europe

Trier University, 8 – 10. September 2025 The conference aims to provide a survey of the various ways in which Jews were involved, or allegedly involved in criminal activities in medieval Europe. It pr...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Pola of Rome: The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Jewish Scribe"
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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · Sep 5

CfP: The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations. Deadline: Sept. 15, 2025.
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CfP: The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations

Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 19-21 January 2026 Deadline: 15th September 2025 The Unit for Judaic Studies at the Institute for the Near and Middle East (LMU, Munich) is inviting abstracts f...

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