2012-2013 | Institutionalization, Innovation, and Conflict in 13th-Century Judaism: A Comparative View

Fellow Area of Research
Esperanza Alfonso 
Center for Social & Human Sciences- Spanish National Research Council

Selma Ruben Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

The Hebrew Bible and the Vernacular in 13th-Century Castile

Elisheva Baumgarten 
Bar-Ilan University

Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

Family Matters: A Social History of Jewish Marriage in Christian Europe

Piero Capelli 
University of Venice

Primo Levi Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Jewish-Christian Polemics: The Talmud and Rabbinic Literature as a Sign of Inner-Jewish Dissent

Rita Copeland 
University of Pennsylvania

Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Theories of the Emotions in the 13th Century

Jamal Elias 
University of Pennsylvania

Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

Mevlevis after Rumi: Religion, Culture and the Rise of the Ottomans

Judah Galinsky 
Bar-Ilan University

Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

13th Century Halakhic Literature in Northern France and Christian Spain

Elisabeth Hollender 
Goethe University

Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

The ‘Sephardicization’ of Hebrew Poetry in Thirteenth-Century Ashkenaz and Byzantium

Kati Ihnat 
Queen Mary,
University of London

Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

The Wrath of Mary: Jews in the Medieval Cult of the Virgin

Ruth Karras 
University of Minnesota

Golub Family Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

Warfare and Masculinities in Medieval Europe

Ehud Krinis 
Hebrew University

Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Ismāʻīlī-Shīʻī Literature and Thirteenth-Century Spanish Kabbalah

Charles Manekin 
University of Maryland

Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

Aristotelian Logic and Jewish Thought in Thirteenth-Century Spain

Katelyn Mesler 
Northwestern University

Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Medieval Jewish Encounter with Christian Magic in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Sarah Pearce 
New York University

Louis Apfelbaum and Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

In the Language of All Nations: Invention of the Arabic Translator in Thirteenth- Century Castile and Provence

Rami Reiner 
Ben-Gurion University

Samuel T. Lachs Fellowship

Spring Term Fellow

Influence of the French Tosafists on the German Pietists

Yossef Schwartz 
Tel-Aviv University

Martin Gruss Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

The Social Framework of Thirteenth-Century Latin-to-Hebrew Translation Movements

Uri Shachar 
University of Chicago

Ella Darivoff Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Pious Belligerence among Jewish, Christian and Muslim Authors in the Crusading Near East

Lesley Smith 
Oxford University

Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Medieval Interpretation of the Ten Commandments

Rebecca Winer 
Villanova University

Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship

Full Year Fellow

Mothers and Childcare in the Medieval Crown of Aragon and Kingdom of Majorca

Elliot Wolfson 
New York University

Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

Incarnation in the Mystical Hermeneutics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Luke  Yarbrough 
Princeton University

Albert J. Wood Fellowship

Fall Term Fellow

Exclusion as Definition: Situating the Tajrid sayf al-himma in its Transregional Context