2018-19 Theme: Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern
Affiliation & Project Titles
- Ilil Baum
Bar-Ilan University
The Knowledge of Arabic among the Jews of the Crown of Aragon: Late Medieval Jewish Multilingualism as a Marker of an Elitist Culture
- Ross Brann
Cornell University
Andalusi and Sefardi Exceptionalism
- Monica Aparicio Colominas
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Sephardic Exceptionalism in the anti-Jewish Polemics of Medieval Iberian Muslims
- Brian Hamm
University of Central Florida
Being ‘Portuguese’ at the Diasporic Margins
- Marc Herman
Columbia University and Fordham University
Andalusian Independence from Geonic Authority in its Mālikī and Almohad Contexts
- Maya Soifer Irish
Rice University
Sephardic Exceptionalism and the Castilian Jewish Elites
- Martin Jacobs
Washington University (St. Louis)
Constantinople vs. Tenochtitlán: Imperial Expansion through a Post-Expulsion Sephardic Lens
- Ehud Krinis
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
'Duties of the Heart' and the 'Kuzari' as Two Alternative Systematic Responses to the Hardships of the Jewish Communal life in al-Andalus
- Devi Mays
University of Michigan
The Sephardi Connection: Ottoman Jews, the Opium Trade, and the Aftereffects of Empire
- SJ Pearce
New York University
In the Taifa Kingdoms: The Medieval Poetics of Modern Nationalism
- Vaselios Syros
University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Visions of History and Sephardic Identities: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives
- Ryan Szpiech
University of Michigan
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Sephardic Identity before and after 1391
- Moshe Yagur
University of Haifa
Who was a 'Sepharadi'? A view from the Cairo Geniza
