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Hanna Gentili
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Research Associate, HEPMASITE, Universität Hamburg • previously @ British Library • PhD from the Warburg Institute • Jewish Studies - Renaissance Studies - Digital Humanities
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We are halfway through this year’s “Philosophy by Hand” Lecture Series and I very much look forward to talking about the power of the mise-en-page in Hebrew philosophical manuscripts and early printed texts next Tuesday! Both in person and online ✨
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My lecture tomorrow at La Sapienza is in Italian but I’m reposting in English in case of interest in a curious but immensely important moment in the history of Platonism, namely Cardinal Cusanus’s evaluation of Pseudo-Dionysius Platonism through his readings of Plato and Proclus.
Ho l’onore di essere invitato a tenere una lezione al Laboratorio di Mistica all’Università di Roma La Sapienza il 30 aprile sul tema:

Cusano lettore di Proclo e del Corpus Dionysiacum

Nel caso che volete sentirmi parlare in persona a Roma o tramite Zoom…
April 29, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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3 scholarships for the MA Jewish Studies at UCL, each worth £ 4,000:

- Hyman Hurwitz Scholarship in Jewish Languages
- Ada Rapoport-Albert Scholarship in Jewish Religious Life
- The Hebrew and Jewish Studies Scholarship in Jewish History and Politics

www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Study
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March 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Tomorrow (April 9), a conversation on Jewish magic in European intellectual history, with Moshe Idel (Jerusalem) and Saverio Campanini (Bologna): warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/jewis...
European Magic and its Traditions - Jewish Magic - RESCHEDULED
warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
✨ Very happy to start my Averroes Fellowship at the Thomas Institute in Cologne, looking at “Three forgotten texts about natural philosophy from Averroes’ circle and their Hebrew legacy” ✨
April 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We are halfway through this year’s “Philosophy by Hand” Lecture Series and I very much look forward to talking about the power of the mise-en-page in Hebrew philosophical manuscripts and early printed texts next Tuesday! Both in person and online ✨
March 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fantastic to see my beloved Estellina Conat and #Hebrewprint among the protagonists of the Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library. Among the Hebrew treasures on display also the wonderful Maraviglia prayerbook ✨ #hebrewmanuscripts #renaissance
March 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Many congratulations to the curators of the exhibition “Medieval Women: in their own words” which closed this weekend at the British Library, Julian Harrison and @eleanorjackson and all the people involved! An exhibition full of unique items and wit, truly enhancing visibility of women 👏
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Very much looking forward to John Marenbon’s lecture today “Early Medieval Latin Manuscripts and the Social History of Logic,” part of our Philosophy by Hand Lecture Series, a collaboration between the HEPMASITE ERC project and @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
That’s truly a wrap of 2024! I just got a copy of the FANTASTIC catalogue of the Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library where I wrote about my beloved Estellina Conat and the beginning of Hebrew print. Many thanks to the curators Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison for the amazing work!
December 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Very much looking forward to my last conference of 2024, on Jewish and Christian weddings in the early modern period. Organised by @serenadinepi.bsky.social , Guido Bartolucci and Fernanda Alfieri at the University of Bologna ✨✨
December 15, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Very much looking forward to Silvia di Vincenzo‘s upcoming hybrid lecture on December 18 (16:15-17:45 CET): “Philosophy at School: Intertwining Voices from the Margins of Arabic Philosophical Manuscripts”. Registration link: www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/en/register/...
December 10, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Excited to announce the publication of Jews and State Building. A collective exploration of the Jewish role in state formation in pre-Unification Italy, the ultimate historical laboratory! 📚✨

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Jews and State Building
"Jews and State Building" published on 19 Dec 2024 by Brill.
brill.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:14 PM
This is great news! Can’t wait to read it!
I am thrilled to announce that I've signed a contract with Bloomsbury for a textbook on manuscript studies based on my long-running course at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science, to be titled "Medieval Manuscripts in the 21st Century: Skills, Resources, & Ethical Considerations."
December 1, 2024 at 8:21 PM
The opening lecture of our “Philosophy by Hand: the Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought” is now available online here:
lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/en/l2go/-/get/…

Next up: Silvia di Vincenzo presenting her new ERC project on Arabic philosophical manuscripts on December 18, stay tuned! 👀✨
December 1, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Thank you to the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame for the fantastic time! I am really honoured to have delivered this year’s Graduate Students Invited Lecture. ✨ You can see the recording here: loom.ly/R7DYnJo
Graduate Student Invitation Series Lecture: Dr. Hanna Gentili (University of Hamburg, Institut für Jüdische Philosophie und Religion),
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December 1, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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🚨Must-read clickthrough for medievalists working on UK-held materials🚨
Appeals court appears to have upheld that non-derivative images of out-of-copyright works cannot be held in copyright = those repro fees must go.
(Esp of note given BL image dept's crisis.)
December 31, 2023 at 10:05 AM
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Thrilled to share that Columbia University Libraries is looking to add a new book conservator to their already wonderful team! Please share broadly. It's a wonderful opportunity to work with an incredible array of materials.

academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/130584
Academic Search and Recruiting
academic.careers.columbia.edu
January 2, 2024 at 11:18 PM
✨ 2024 news: I am very excited to join the HEPMASITE team as a research associate at the Institut für Jüdische Philosophie und Religion, Universität Hamburg, where I’ll be working on Hebrew medieval and Renaissance philosophical manuscripts. ✨
January 3, 2024 at 9:49 AM
For more on Jewish heritage in the UK (and beyond!) have a look at the Hidden Treasures online platform celebratingjewisharchives.org 👀
January 3, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Closing 2023 also meant saying goodbye to the British Library: grateful for this year as curator of the Hebrew collections, a year spent surrounded by treasures from Jewish communities around the world.
January 3, 2024 at 9:43 AM