Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews

Javier Castaño, Mordechai Cohen, Jonathan Decter, Talya Fishman, Avraham Grossman, Elisabeth Hollender , Moshe Idel , Ephraim Kanarfogel, Tzvi Langermann, Hananel Mack, Paul Mandel, Ivan Marcus, Lucia Raspe, Pinchas Roth, Richard Steiner, Michael Toch

Michael Toch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
What DNA Evidence Teaches About the Early Medieval Jewish Diaspora: Its Timing, Circumstances and Geography

Avraham Grossman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Relationship of the Jews of Ashkenaz and Spain to the Heritage of Babylonia and Eretz Yisrael in the Tenth-Eleventh Centuries: The Struggle for Cultural Hegemony

Pinchas Roth (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Rabbinic Politics, Royal Conquest, and the Creation of a Halakhic Tradition in Medieval Provence

Tzvi Langermann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Philosophical Prayer in Crete

Elisabeth Hollender (University of Frankfurt)
Attraction and Attribution: Being Sephardic in Ashkenazic Prayer Books

Moshe Idel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Varieties of Sod (Esoteric Knowledge) in Medieval Ashkenaz

Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University)
Judah Halevi’s Panegyrics between al-Andalus and Egypt: Shifting Images of Legitimacy in Medieval Jewish Subcultures

Javier Castaño (CSIC, Madrid)
Jewish and non-Jewish Laws in Contact: Hebrew Documents and Notarial Procedures in Late Medieval Spain

Richard Steiner (Yeshiva University)
From Eretz Yisrael to Ashkenaz via Bavel: On the Origin and Spread of Kol Nidre

Hananel Mack (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Homilist and Exegete: Rabi Moshe HaDarshan as Herald of Peshat Scriptural Exegesis

Paul Mandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Souls of the Righteous Sacrificed on the Heavenly Altar: A Medieval Rabbinic Transformation of an early Apocalyptic and Christian Tradition

Ivan Marcus (Yale University)
ReInventing Sefer Hasidim: The French Connection

Lucia Raspe (University of Potsdam)
Minhag and Migration: On the (Re)Formation of Ashkenazi Identity in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Talya Fishman (University of Pennsylvania)
The Authority of Regional Practice: Halakhic Latitudinarianism in the Geonic Era?

Ephraim Kanarfogel (Yeshiva University)
From Germany to Northern France and Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centers

Mordechai Cohen (Yeshiva University)
Ashkenazic and Sephardic Models of Peshat: R. Shmuel ben Meir vs Moses Maimonides