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Lucia
Raspe

Goethe University, Germany
Albert J. Wood Fellowship

Research Topic

Minhag and Migration: Jewish Books of Customs Beyond the Borders of Historical Ashkenaz

Bio

Lucia Raspe is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam. Her publications include Jüdische Hagiographie im mittelalterlichen Aschkenas (Jewish Hagiography in Medieval Ashkenaz) (2006) as well as numerous articles on medieval and early modern memory and identity in Ashkenazi Culture. Raspe’s research at the center will focus on minhagim, or Jewish books of customs, in the German-Jewish diaspora in Italy during the Early Modern era.

Fellowship

2003–2004
Prescriptive Traditions and Lived Experience in the Jewish Religion: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Challenging the methodological divide between history and anthropology in the study of Jews and Judaism.

2013–2014
Constructing Borders and Crossing Boundaries: Social, Cultural, and Religious Change in Early Modern Jewish History

Investigating changes across the early modern Jewish world.

Events

Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and His Early Modern Afterlife
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Do Jews Believe in Saints? A Medieval Rabbi and His Early Modern Afterlife
Featuring: Lucia Raspe, Goethe University, Germany