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Research
Our research is wide-ranging and innovative, exploring areas of Jewish Studies that are multinational, interdisciplinary, and often neglected or unknown.
Our areas of research include, but are not limited to:
- Ancient Near East
- Early rabbinic literature
- Jewish time and calendars
- Code switching in the Talmud
- Ancient science & medicine
- Ancient Jewish magic
- Witchcraft in biblical & post-biblical times
- Body marking & tattoos
- Yiddish literature
- Hebrew & Yiddish theatre
- Jews and photography
- Jewish feminism
- Maskilic Hebrew
- Endangered languages
- Jewish mysticism
- Jewish food
- Jewish-Muslim relations听
- The Arab-Israeli conflict
- Peace efforts in the Middle East
- Antisemitism
- Jewishness and gender
- The Holocaust/Shoah
- Eastern European Jewish history
Our contributions to understanding and knowledge are significant, pioneering, and world-leading.
We have run several international research collaborations with colleagues in Israel, Germany, Poland, and the USA. In the last ten years, the Department has won major research grants from the ERC (European Research Council), AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), Leverhulme, and the British Academy, and has hosted a number of postdoctoral fellowships. Research students have undertaken doctorates in a very wide range of subjects.
Our location in the heart of Bloomsbury in Central London听gives us close access to a wide range of libraries and unique research facilities, and to its vibrant, interdisciplinary research community.
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Journals
Edited by a member of the Department
,听UCL Press听(Prof Shirli Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief)
,听Liverpool University Press. (Prof Sacha Stern, with Prof听Alison Salvesen [Oxford], Editors; Dr Alinda Damsma, Assistant Editor)
, Liverpool University Press. (Prof Fran莽ois听Guesnet &听Prof Antony Polonsky [Brandeis University], Editors)
Book Series
Edited by a member of the Department
,听T眉bingen:听Mohr Siebeck.听(Prof Mark Geller, Co-Editor)
, Leiden: Brill. (Prof Sacha Stern & Prof听Cilliers Breytenbach [Berlin],听Executive Editors)
, Leiden: Brill. (Prof Mark Geller, Co-Editor)
,听London: UCL Press.听(Prof Lily Kahn &听Dr Riitta-Liisa Valij盲rvi, [SSEES], Co-Editors)
, Leiden: Brill.听(Prof听Mark Geller, Prof Fran莽ois听Guesnet,听Prof Lily Kahn,听Prof Ada Rapoport-Albert z"l, Editors)
, London: Routledge. (Prof Lily Kahn, Prof听Aaron D. Rubin, Editors)
, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Prof Mark Geller, Co-Editor)
, London: UCL Press. (Prof Lily Kahn &听Dr Riitta-Liisa Valij盲rvi, [SSEES], Co-Editors)
, Leiden: Brill. (Prof Sacha Stern &听Prof Charles Burnett [Warburg Institute], Editors)