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

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

Boston College Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Jewish Studies. Deadline: Nov. 2, 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18874

NEW BOOK - Ross Brann, Moses Maimonides: A Very Short Introduction. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18786

NEW BOOK - Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Ph. Brown: Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18823

From all of us at medievalJewishStudiesNow! L'shana tova ! לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה mjsnow.hypotheses.org

Sarah Ifft Decker wins the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies’ best article prize (2024). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18807

New article: Ryan Szpiech, "Carnal Israel? The Medieval Conceit of Jews as Organs in the Social Body." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18759

CFA: New York University, Visiting Scholar in the study of historical or contemporary antisemitism, Spring 2026. Deadline: October 3, 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18740

New article: Ilona Steimann, "Beyond the Text: Liturgical Clues in Burgundian Masoretic Manuscripts" #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18732

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.” #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18663

Archaeologists have confirmed the discovery of the remains of a medieval synagogue in Belchite (Zaragoza province, Spain). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18647

New book — The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, eds. Carson Bay et al. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18612

New book — The Medieval Afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: Reception & Reinvention in Western Europe, eds. Carson Bay et al. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18612

New book — Colette Sirat, Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Jewish Culture during the Middle Ages. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18597

Conference: "Jewish Delinquency" in Medieval Europe #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18565

"Pola of Rome: The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Jewish Scribe" #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18495

CfP: The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations. Deadline: Sept. 15, 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18448

Review: Ivan G. Marcus, "How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18401

Cool #dhjewish event going on in Wrocław this November: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities dhjewish.org/event/confer...

JAC Newsletter #5 is out now! Lots of exciting news, calls, blogs, publications, events and more! Check it out: shorturl.at/gUWbe

#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.

Elias H. Füllenbach: "The Preacher as a Dog – Some Remarks on the Dog Motif in Early Dominican Iconography." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18330

Interview with Carmen Caballero Navas about Medieval Gynecology. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18292

Irven Resnick: "Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18336

Scriptorium: The PhD and Postdoc Research Cohort at the National Library of Israel. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18273

New Post of the Genizah Research Unit: Judaism’s Service Entrance by Moshe Yagur. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18260

New book — Reading Across Cultures: Translating Romances, Fables, and Poetry in Medieval Ashkenaz, by Caroline Gruenbaum. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18229

Good news if you like history, manuscripts, or nice books! 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah' is now available at *greatly* reduced shipping costs via @theul.bsky.social (UK) and Amazon (worldwide) from this link: linktr.ee/nposegay. There's also a free sample file there with the entire first chapter.

New discovery: Foundations of the first synagogue in Rothenburg ob der Tauber excavated. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18128

A talk by Julie Harris: "Laurent d’Arvieux and the King’s Bible: A Hebrew Codex in Christian Hands." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18152

New Walking Tour to the Jewish history of Medieval Lincoln to be established #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18186

New Book! The Nuremberg Mahzor: History, Codicology, Liturgy and Art. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18172

📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more… Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c

A 900-Year-Old Jewish-Iranian Manuscript and the Story It Tells. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18064

Job: Tenured full professor and Schusterman Center director position at University of Texas at Austin. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18031

New publication: "The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts." Edited by ed. Katharina Heyden and David Nirenberg. mjsnow.hypotheses.org/18059

Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Pinchas (פִּינְחָס) with this image of Pinchas holding a javelin and shield. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.92r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

The beginning of Torah portion Pinchas (פִּינְחָס) is marked by this design. In Pichas, Joshua is appointed as the successor of Moses. #ParashahPictures BnF Hébreu 29; Bible; 15th century; f.94r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Division of the Red Sea: 'They [the waters] were divided into many paths equal to the number of the tribes, as the appearance of a rounded bow'. BL Add 14763; Miscellany of philosophical works including by Maimonides; 13th c; Italy (Viterbo); f.135r

Calling Emerging Scholars: Advance Your Research at the National Library of Israel. Extended deadline: 10 July 2025. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17948

New book: François Soyer, The Blood Libel in Medieval Antisemitism #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17976

New book: Marc M. Epstein, "People of the Image: Jews and Art," (Penn State University Press, 2025). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17897

Videos: "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Series,” curated by Elisheva Baumgarten, Maya Soifer Irish, Marcia Kupfer, and Asa Mittman. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17961

‘New’ finds from the Erfurt Treasure have appeared. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17764

Conference: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17833

New article by Elisheva Baumgarten: "The Art of Weaving and the Art of Embroidery: Jewish Women’s Professions in a Medieval European Perspective." #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17815

New Book: "Solomonic Magic. Methodology, Texts, and Histories," by Gal Sofer. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17814

"Distant Patterns, Close Up Insights: A Hybrid Approach to the Changing Status of Narrative Texts in Medieval Jewish Literature." Research spotlight by Annabelle Fuchs. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17843

Call for Papers: Conference on Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17730