Elisabeth
Hollender
Goethe University
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick Teaching Fellowship
Research Topic
The ‘Sephardicization’ of Hebrew Poetry in Thirteenth-Century Ashkenaz and Byzantium
Bio
Elisabeth Hollender is Professor of Jewish Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt. An expert on medieval Ashkenazic poetry and poetics, she published Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz (2008). In the spring, Hollender will examine the process of cultural transmission of Jewish liturgical traditions during the thirteenth century.
