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Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
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Pues esto salió hace ya unos años pero, para qué negarlo, me quedó majo así que lo vuelvo a dejar por aquí, por si interesara al respetable público:
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El mundo como descanso | Jesús de Prado Plumed
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Lo típico que te pones a picar la pared del cortijo familiar y aparece emparedado el carnet del socorro rojo internacional de tu bisabuela con fecha de 1938.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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In a new article (open access!) I argue that the Ottoman state played a crucial role in creating Ashkenazi identity in Jerusalem - as an overarching category for Yiddish speaking Jews from Central and East European countries.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
The familiar grouping of Yiddish speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe into the single overarching identity of ‘Ashkenazim’, emerged initially in multi-lingual Jewish contexts. This article e...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Katja Šmid, David Bunis & Chava Turniansky (eds), #Rabbinical Literature in #Yiddish and #Ladino www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... from @degruyter_brill #JewishHistory #JewishBooks #OA A long awaited project finally coming to fruition! בשעה טובה ומוצלחת!
Rabbinical Literature in Yiddish and Ladino
The volume offers a broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major traditional Jewish languages of Europe: Yiddish, the language which arose in the Middle Ages amongst the Je...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Guillem Gavaldà (@uab.cat) online about Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium fidei, next Tue, Nov 11 16.00 CET
Link medieval.udl.cat/en/activitie...
#Conversos #MedievalSky
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Viendo una conferencia sobre manuscritos hebreos medievales con el heredero (9 años) me suelta: «Lo bueno de descifrar manuscritos hebreos es que hay tan poca gente que sepa que no tienen competir. ¿Para qué competir para ser el mejor? Querer ser el mejor te vuelve arrogante.»
November 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
@davidwacks.bsky.social sobre el Shevet Yehuda de Shelomo ibn Verga, entre la historia y ficción #EarlyModern #JewishHistory #JewishStudies
En línea y luego disponible en canal de YT de la benemérita cátedra libre de Estudios Judíos de la #UBA
👉https://www.youtube.com/@catedramosesmendelssohnffy3260
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Nov 5th @6pm, tune in online or in person for our annual Ullendorff Lecture!
This year, Prof. Matthew Morgenstern will give a lecture titled, 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies.'
www.ochjs.ac.uk/public-lectu...
#oxford #lectures
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#openaccess
Christians and Tafsīr: Interreligious Readings of Muslim Exegetical Sources from the Middle Ages to Early-Modern Times

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Christians and Tafsīr
Most of the scholarly research about the Christian textual production engaging with Islam in medieval and early modern times concentrates on the role of the Qur’anic text in such works. The role of Ta...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Juan Pablo Artinian explica con rigor y detalle el #Genocidio #Armenio: open.spotify.com/episode/1l6R... en el siempre interesante podcast de la Asociación Argentina de Investigadores en Historia (ASAIH).
El genocidio armenio
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October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Mostafa Hussein, #Hebrew #Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with #AraboIslamic Culture in Late #Ottoman and British Palestine, forthcoming in December: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... h/t @homophonous.bsky.social
Hebrew Orientalism
How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of Zionism
press.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Alan Verskin on #EarlyModern #JewishBlack #Messiah David Reubeni, on Zoom, in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, to be recorded and made available on the Cátedra's YT channel:
www.youtube.com/@catedramose...
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
La Universitat de Xicago busca algú per a un contracte de 4 anys, cofinançat per l'Institut Ramon Llull, d'Assistant Instructional Professor in Catalan and Spanish
academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/17...
Academic Jobs | The University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private, nondenominational, culturally rich and ethnically diverse coeducational research university located in Hyde Park, Chicago.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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“Nearly everyone I asked said that they had noticed the increased presence of settlers in Tel Aviv but seemed not to understand when they moved to the city, or why.”

@lisang.bsky.social reports on the West Bank settlers arriving in Tel Aviv.
The Settlers Bursting Tel Aviv’s Bubble
The religious-nationalist right has targeted Israel’s most secular, liberal city
newlinesmag.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"in archieven en bibliotheken van Rome naar Leiden, van Madrid naar Stockholm, en van Jeruzalem naar Mexico-Stad..."
👉 www.uantwerpen.be/nl/onderzoek...
October 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Appel à contribution – Houses of Knowledge Circulating. Images, Texts, and Technologies across Medieval Eurasia

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Appel à contribution – Houses of Knowledge Circulating. Images, Texts, and Technologies across Medieval Eurasia
Edited by Cassandre Lejosne and Adrien Palladino (Aiming for publication in 2027) This edited volume explores how monasteries, scriptoria, and madrasas shaped the intellectual and artistic landscap…
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October 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
#EarlyModern #GenderHistory #HistoryMedicine #Inquisition online 👇
El proceso de Eleno de Céspedes: identidad, cuerpo y #herejía en los fondos del Archivo Histórico Nacional
👩‍🏫Dra. María Jesús Zamora Calvo
28 octubre, 19.00 CET
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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PODCAST: Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire

Dahlia Scheindlin explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war, and explains why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement.

Listen now 🎙️

www.972mag.com/podcast-reck...
Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire
Dahlia Scheindlin explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war and why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement.
www.972mag.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The @ies-sas.bsky.social online Winter School in Jan. 2026 includes courses by Michelle Brown (the Medieval Book); Anna Somfai (Medieval Scientific and Philosophical mss); and dream team @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and me (History Books). Book👇
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IES: LIPS & LRBS Winter School | 2026
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October 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Department of Religion at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context.

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October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!

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October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Pourquoi lire (ou relire) Marc Bloch aujourd’hui ? C’est la question que pose ce petit livre qui vient de paraître aux
Presses Universitaires de Lyon, à l’occasion du centenaire de la première publication des Rois thaumaturges. Petit thread ⬇️
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Emile Schrijver, "an examination of Illustrated #18thCentury #HebrewManuscripts and decorated Scrolls of Esther we will explore the evolution of artistic Hebrew manuscript following the invention of the #PrintingPress" www.youtube.com/live/2P8hqdD... #JewishBooks #BookHistory
The Decoration of Hebrew Manuscripts after the Invention of Printing
YouTube video by TheGrolier Club
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October 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM