Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Yay! I just noticed that my book is available for preorder. Use the code PUP30 for 30% off. Share with your librarian! Will ship on Jan 20, 2026 just in time for uhhhhh someone's birthday? Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

Next week in Berlin at the ZMO. November 13 and 14: www.zmo.de/veranstaltun...

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

" @miriamudel.bsky.social's abun­dant gifts as an author, her exhaus­tive research, and ele­gant writ­ing ele­vate her book above its sub­ject matter.” Read the full review of Modern Jewish Worldmaking for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social here: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/modern-...

#NewPublication #OpenAccess #ChristianEast

Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵) 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

You can now read and download the Introduction to my new book Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt - to be published in January. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you. www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

New open access volume on slavery in Ethiopian Studies with link to download: www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Slavery_and_...

This is excellent research by Claire Dillon and great reading. A fine example of medievalism and modern colonialism between Cefalú, Sicily; Rome; and Mogadishu online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

My copies of “Tradecraft”, the collection of essays by people who helped John le Carré research his novels, has arrived. Contains one chapter about the week Jason Stearns and I spent with the author in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Fielded a question about how representative Bomma and Abraham Ibn Yijū (enslaved man and slave owner in Gosh’s In an Antique Land) we’re in the wider culture of slavery. Short responses below.

JEWISH STUDIES VISITING POSITION! Boston College - 2026-2027 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

If you need beautiful maps for a project (or eel knowledge) I know a guy…

Excited to announce my book that is forthcoming in January. I’m looking forward to sharing more soon. Let me know if your faculty, students, or community would be interested in a talk or class. Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt | Princeton University Press. Description at: bit.ly/PerrySlavery

There absolutely are people out there who would claim this. There are people who have turned "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism" into "All antisemitism is justified in the name of anti-Zionism."

I hope everyone on the "left" defending Leo Frank trutherism knows that one of the most high-profile figures associated with this particular antisemitic conspiracism is a deputy Pentagon press secretary for the Trump administration: www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-penta...

@religiondispatches.org is a publication of @praeyesright.bsky.social. Ya’ll, your writer is pushing racist conspiracy theories of the kind that inspire deadly violence. Is your silence consent, or because you condone this speech?

If @religiondispatches.org could come collect its writer that would be elite.

#CfP Conference: "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations" (BMFTR-project "Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations) - deadline: 15 September 2025.

@modernlanguage.bsky.social The National Humanities Center welcomes applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research for the 2026–27 academic year. The deadline to apply is October 2, 2025. Please help us spread the word about this opportunity.

#NewBlogPost Our member Ella Christina Ayyoub writes about "The Portrayal of Jews in Syrian Television Drama Series" - read her blogpost here: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-portraya...

#CfA | The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg is seeking a junior professor with tenure track (W1TTW2) of Jewish Studies | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfp-... Deadline for applications: June 19, 2025

Our 50% off sale is live! 🎉🌺 Explore some recent "Best of" titles and save 50% off books (including ebooks and audio) sitewide, with code BLOOM50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list?

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Our next Online History Course on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience starts this week! Up first: Thursday, February 13, 12 PM ET—Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Jewish Women and Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Baghdad Register: https://buff.ly/4hmUwe6

UW announces the publication of its first-ever roundtable! it showcases a variety of perspectives on the Global Middle Ages—its possibilities, perils, & problems—from fields associated w/ Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.

Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected] MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!

Open access 🔥 Sean W. Anthony and Stephen Shoemaker, Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

Me, thinking about how medieval Jews saw truth as a kind of bounded multiplicity: bearing multiple, coexisting levels, but not without boundaries. And how it offers a way out of the protracted public conversation we're now having about fact. 🗃️ #medievalsky www.keinrathpublishing.org/product-page...

Since we are new(ish) to Bluesky, we want to make sure you did not miss all of the wonderful articles we published this year! We publish as soon as articles are through peer review and copyediting, so these have rolled out over the past 12 months: 🧵⬇️

"Los judíos en los Estados hispánicos medievales: dinámicas sociales y desigualdades sociales" Curso de especialización organizado por Javier Castaño (CCHS, CSIC) en la Facultad de Filología de la Complutense en enero y febrero. Presencial y gratuito previa inscripción: jmed(a)http://csic.es

Sending this around again. Know of anyone interested in pursuing an MA in Middle Eastern and North African Jewish history? Deadline to apply is Jan. 6, 2025. Would love to welcome some new students to McGill and Montreal.

Gonna try this here: #skystorians: What articles do you like to use to teach historical methods to undergrads? I'm aware of the classic books, but I would like some shorter & accessible pieces. Thanks! And please reshare!

Come and study with us! The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois offers MA programs in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. We also have FLAS funding for students who want to learn Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Hebrew. Please help me spread the word!

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My Oxford Bibliography on early Christianity and slavery is out! I hope it’s a helpful resource to get an overview of the field as it continues to grow. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in @ingeveb

Giving a talk today at Northwestern based on my book that’s coming in Fall 2025. The talk is “A Jewish History of Slavery and African Diaspora in the Medieval Middle East.” 4pm Harris Hall. Thanks to NU Jewish Studies and Prof. Brackmeyer for hosting me.

I’m here because this site is named after the song the band played during the recessional at my wedding. open.spotify.com/track/6iX1QW...

Hi modest influx of new followers. I’m on here mainly to share resources and learn about. I study and teach the history of the Jews and the medieval Middle East. I’m finishing a history of slavery and the slave trade based on documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue (called the Cairo Geniza).1/

Does anyone have recommendations for short films by Palestinian filmmakers with English subtitles or in English? Looking for shorts set in Palestine/Israel for an undergraduate class but on any number of themes etc.

ICYMI: Medieval fashion from Faras brought to life! Researchers have recreated the height of 12th c. North-East African Christian fashion — & divine authority — based on the famous wall paintings of Faras Cathedral, Makuria (one of the medieval Nubian kingdoms) www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medi...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,168,127! #proud