Seminars & Guest Lectures

  • 2019 May 29

    Seminar I Dr. Pinchas Roth

    Lecturer: 

    Dr. Pinchas Roth
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Room 1001 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Rabin Building)
  • 2019 Mar 20

    Seminar I Prof. Eva Haverkamp

    Lecturer: 

    Prof. Eva Haverkamp
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Room 1001 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Rabin Building)

    Prof. Eva Haverkamp of the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich presented a lecture in our ongoing seminar. She discussed the exhibition she recently curated in Regensburg, commemorating the 500 anniversary of the expulsion of local Jews from this city, the last expulsion of Jews in Germany. Haverkamp described the practical, political and theoretical challenges her team had to overcome in creating the exhibition. Together we debated the need to communicate our historical research to the public, and the appropriate manners to do so.

  • 2019 Feb 06

    Lecture I Turning Medieval Jewish Heritage into World Heritage - an Insight on Daily Work of Conservation, Research and Communication in Erfurt.

    Lecturer: 

    Dr. Maria Stürzebecher
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Y. Rabin Building, Mount Scopus Campus

     

    Dr. Maria Stürzebecher presented to our team her exhibition about the Medieval Jews in Erfurt located in the Old Synagogue (of Erfurt). She described her ongoing work uncovering different aspects of Jewish daily life in the city and the different foci of the exhibition, among them the Erfurt treasure, synagogue, tombstones, mikveh and stone-house. Together, we discussed various ideas regarding the accessibility of material to the public and what we could apply to our upcoming exhibition.

  • 2019 Jan 09

    Seminar I Dr. Anna Gutgarts

    Lecturer: 

    Dr. Anna Gutgarts
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Room 1001 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Rabin Building)
  • 2018 Dec 12

    Seminar I Yiddish and Daily Life

    Lecturer: 

    Dr. Oren Roman, HUJI
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Room 1001 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Rabin Building)
    Dr. Oren Roman of Ben Gurion University of the Negev presented a lecture in the Beyond the Elite seminar. Roman, an expert on the development of early Yiddish, focused on the implications  everyday language spoken by medieval German Jews had on their interactions within themselves and with their Christian neighbors. Roman opened by discussing the sources which teach us about the spoken language of medieval Jews, and the differences between this language and the Middle High German.
  • 2018 Nov 21

    Seminar I Dr. Cristoph Cluse

    Lecturer: 

    Dr. Cristoph Cluse
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    10:30am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Room 1001 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies (Rabin Building)
    As part of our ongoing seminar, the seminar with Dr. Cristoph Cluse was dedicated to an outstanding German charter from Worms, part of the ShUM communities, from the year 1312. In the charter bishop Emmerich of Worms as well as the cathedral chapter issued a contract with the local Jewish community regulating the election and confirmation of the Judenrat, constituted by the parnasim. This charter was discussed and analyzed in detail during the seminar while exploring Jewish and Christian ideas of law and custom.
  • 2018 May 13

    Tour | Research Trip to Germany

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    (All day)

    On 13 May, members of "Beyond the Elite" research group went on a five-day research trip to Germany. This visit allowed us to study the archaeological sites that contain evidence of Jewish existence from the Middle Ages, and meet some of the leading scholars of the field. On each of the days we visited different cities:

    13 May - Erfurt

    14 May - Trier

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