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Center for Advanced Judaic Studies | 420 Walnut Street | Philadelphia, PA 19106 | 215.238.1290

2005-2006 Program
THE JEWISH BOOK:
MATERIAL TEXTS AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS


Name

  Area of Research

Jean Baumgarten (F)
Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship
  Popular Books, Readers and Readings in 16th-18th Cent. Ashkenazi Society


Malachi Beit-Arie
Hebrew University
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship
 
A Manual of Hebrew Manscripts: Medieval Book Production and Design


Shlomo Berger (S)
University of Amsterdam
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship
 
Yiddish Book Culture in Amsterdam 1650-1800: A Study of Paratexts


Menahem Blondheim
Hebrew University
Louis Apfelbaum and
Hortense Braunstein Apfelbaum Fellowship

 
New Light, Old Letters, New Land: Three Immigrant Hebrew Printers in 19th Century America




Marc Bregman (F)
Hebrew Union College, Israel
Nancy S. and Laurence E. Glick
Teaching Fellowship

 
Non-Biblical Scrolls: Survey, Description, and Discussion of Manuscripts and Fragments


Francesca Bregoli
University of Pennsylvania
Primo Levi Fellowship
 
Jewish Print Culture in 18th Century Livorno


Cedric Cohen Skalli
Tel Aviv University
 
Leadership and Printing: Isaac Abravanel’s Printed Editions and Manuscripts in 16th Century Italy


Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
Bar-Ilan University
Ella Darivoff Fellowship
 
Text and Image in the Hebrew Book


Federica Francesconi
University of Haifa
Primo Levi Term Fellowship
Albert J. Wood Term Fellowship

 
From Renaissance to Modernity: Books of the Jews of 17th Century Modena


Joseph Hacker
Hebrew University
Maurice Amado Foundation Fellowship
Rose and Henry Zifkin Teaching Fellowship
 
Readers and Hebrew Books in the Ottoman Empire, 15th -18th Centuries


Joel Hecker (F)
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Erika A. Strauss Teaching Fellowship
 
From Anthology to Amulet: The Case of Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh


Iris Parush (S)
Ben-Gurion University
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship
 
Reading and Modernization in 19th Century Eastern European Jewish Society


Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (S)
Ben-Gurion University
Martin Gruss Fellowship
 
Print, Conversion and the Shaping of Modern Jewish Collectivity


Moshe Rosman (S)
Bar-Ilan University
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship
 
The Conundrum of the Hasidic Book: 1780-1815


Adam Shear (F)
University of Pittsburgh
Louis and Bessie Stein Term Fellowship
 
Medieval Jewish Thought as an Early Modern Process: Jewish Book Culture in Italy, 1450-1650


Stefanie Siegmund (S)
University of Michigan
Selma Ruben Term Fellowship
 
Production of the Bi-Lingual Book by Converted Jews in 16th Century Italy


David Stern
University of Pennsylvania
Moses Aaron Dropsie Fellowship
 
Babylonian Talmud; Rabbinic Bible; Siddur/Mahzor; and Passover Haggadah


Chava deTurniansky
Hebrew University
Dalck and Rose Feith Family Fellowship
 
Texts and Contexts of the Z’ena ur’ena


Piet Van Boxel (F)
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and
Jewish Studies
Martin Gruss Fellowship
 
Encyclopedia Judaica for non-Jews: Censorship under Pope Gregory XIII


Joanna Weinberg (F)
Oxford Centre and Leo Baeck College
Ruth Meltzer Distinguished Fellowship
 
Isaac Casaubon: A Christian Hebraists’ Encounter with the Jewish Book

 
 
 

ADJUNCT FELLOWS
 
 
  Evelyn Cohen
Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
   Mordechai Glatzer
Hebrew Universit
y 
       
  Anthony Grafton
Princeton University
 

Matt Goldish
Ohio State University

       
  Vera Moreen
Franklin and Marshall College
  David Kraemer
Jewish Theological Seminary, NY
       
   Menahem Schmelzer
Jewish Theological Seminary, NY