Cancelled due to COVID19

During this intensive course, Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford, École Pratique des Hautes Études) taught an intensive seminar on 9 th -15 th century Hebrew palaeography from across the Jewish world. After familiarizing us with the major typological groups of medieval Hebrew script, we had the opportunity to test our knowledge at the National Library of Israel, where Prof. Olszowy-Schlanger showed us a collection of fascinating manuscripts. The seminar provided us with new insights into palaeography and how to use it in our own research.

 

 

This fall, Beyond the Elite and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem collaborated together on an eight-week seminar taught by Prof. Susan Einbinder (University of Connecticut) on the use of literary sources for historical research. The aim of the course was to scrutinize different genres of literary texts, both prose and poetry, asking which types of information can be treated as historical material and which have to be read as literary tropes or aesthetic constructs.