Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials Online Research Workshop - March 1-3, 2021 | Live on Zoom
Monday, March 1, 2021
10:00 – 10:30 (Israel time) Opening Remarks
Simha Goldin
Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University
Andreas Lehnertz
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10:30 – 12:00
First Session: Hebrew Manuscripts as Sources
Chair: Elisheva Baumgarten
Esperança Valls-Pujol
Jewish Craftspeople in the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Girona Genizah
Jeremie Allouche
Writing the History of Wage Labour in the Cairo Genizah
12:00 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 14:00
Second Session: Jewish Crafts – Case Studies I – Book Production
Chair: Ilana Tahan
Leor Jacobi
Christian Books, Jewish Covers: Mdejar Bookbinding in Medieval Christian Iberia
Dagmara Budzioch
Paula dei Mansi as a Medieval Jewish Scribe
14:00 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:30
Third Session: Materials in Manuscript Production
Chair: Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
Mark Farnadi-Jerusálmi
The Work of a Scribe as a Craft and the Materials Used
Zvi Orgad
Follow the Colors: Materials as Reading Aids in Late Medieval Haggadot
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
10:00 – 11:30
Forth Session: Jewish Crafts – Case Studies II – Jewelers, Silversmiths, and Silk Dyers
Chair: Maria Stürzebecher
Merav Schnitzer
Jewish Jeweler, Jewish Jewel? Tracing a Jewish Craft in the Middle Ages
Saskia Dönitz
Silversmith and Silk Dyer – Byzantine Jewish Craftsmanship
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:30
Fifth Session: Christian Guilds and Jewish Craftspeople
Chair: Andreas Lehnertz
Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
A Story of a Leather Worker as a Possible Way of Breaking the Guilds Ban
Birgit Wiedl
Prohibitions, Converts, and a “Jewish Guild” – a Search for Jewish Craftspeople in Late Medieval Austria
11:30 – 12:00 Break
14:30 – 16:00
Sixth Session: Archaeological Perspective – The City of Cologne
Chair: Simha Goldin
Tanja Potthoff
Jewish Craftspeople in Medieval Cologne, Part I: Traces in the Written Sources
Michael Wiehen
Jewish Craftspeople in Medieval Cologne, Part II: Archaeological Evidence
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
10:00 – 12:00
Seventh Session: Products for the Jewish Community
Chair: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
Karin Sczech
A Jewish Bakery in Erfurt?
Nahum Ben-Yehuda
Jewish Tailors and Related Textile Professionals in 13th-14th Century Spain, from the Perspective of Contemporaneous Rabbinical Literature
Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig
“Judaizing” Objects: The Unprofessional Jewish Craftsman
12:00 – 13:00 Conclusion
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