Harvard Center for Jewish Studies

Ani Avetisyan (Cambridge University), Between Script and Community: Judeo-Arabic Medical Manuscripts of the Matenadaran Collection (Republic of Armenia). Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Jewish...

David Freidenreich (Colby College), Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Please...

Katrina Kogman-Appel (University of Münster), Jewish Printers and Christian Artists in Naples and Istanbul: An Illustrated Haggadah for Sefardi Refugees (1492–1505). Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Mahindra Humanities Center Jewish...

Ruth Langer (Boston College), Jewish Prayers for Divine Vengeance. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies.

Adrienne Williams Boyarin (University of Victoria), Jewish Women in Medieval England: New Tools for New Biographies. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Medieval England’s Jewish communities...

Naama Golan (Kibbutzim College of Education and 2021-22 Associate at the Center for Jewish Studies), A Creative Interpretation within the Genre Constraints: A Study of Yehuda Uziel's Super-Commentary on Rashi. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Center for Jewish...

Rabbi Aaron Adler (Ohel Nechama Community Synagogue/Israel and Silver Fellow), Ashkenazic Versions of Prayers and Blessings in Maimonides' Codes. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to...

Chana Shacham-Rosby (Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Starr Fellow), Practice, Practicality and Periphery in Medieval Ashkenaz. Attendance at the Starr Seminars is limited to Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates; please RSVP to Sandy Cantave...

Anna Sierka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Starr Fellow), The Sense of Smell in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

Sophia Schmitt (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich and 2021-22 Starr Fellow), On the Defensive and On the Offensive: Jewish Resilience in Fifteenth-Century Ashkenaz. Please RSVP to Sandy Cantave Vil. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the...