Jews in Medieval England: New Sources, Fresh Perspectives
International ISF workshop
October 30-November 1, 2022,
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Faculty of Jewish Studies building (410)3 rd floor, room 312 (faculty meeting room)
12:00 Greetings and a brief overview of the workshop’s objectives
Pinchas Roth (Bar-Ilan University)
Ahuva Liberles (Yale University)
12:20 Keynote lecture 1
Chair: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner (Ben Gurion University)
Diversity in European Cities
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
13:10 Coffee break
13:20 The Interplay of Sex, Marriage, and Communal Identity
Avital Davidovich Eshed (Tel Aviv University)
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Chair: Sara Offenberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Curating the medieval Jewish experience to wider audiences
Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London)
Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Beck Auditorium, The Rappaport Faculty of Jewish Studies Building (building 410)
16:15 Keynote lecture 2
Greetings: Shmuel Refael, Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Chair: Debra Kaplan (Bar-Ilan University)
Thinking about Jews in the late twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Gloss of the Decretum (Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676)
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Oxford University)
17:30 Dinner
Monday, October 31, 2022
Faculty of Jewish Studies building (410)3 rd floor, room 312 (faculty meeting room)
10:00 English Jews in Urban Context
Chair: Rachel Furst (The University of Haifa)
Neighbours: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth Century Towns
Dean Irwin (Independent scholar)
Preliminary thoughts on the Medieval Jewish Ritual Bath
(mikveh) in the Jewish Museum London
Neta Bodner (Open University of Israel)
11:20 Coffee break
11:30 English Jews in European Context
Chair: Micha Perry (The University of Haifa)
Halacha and Communal Politics in Rav Elijah Menahem’s Responsa
Shai Finkelstein (Bar-Ilan University)
The virtues of comparison: A tentative step in shedding light on the medieval Jews of England from the Spanish and French examples
Claire Soussen (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale)
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Liturgy and Grammar as Cultural Keys
Chair: Eric Lawee (Bar-Ilan University)
From Mainz to England – A historical journey
following the author of the Corpus Christi 133 manuscript
Tsur Shafir (The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center,
Tel-Aviv University/ Orot Israel, College of Education)
Sefer ha-Shoham, a grammar of Ashkenazi tradition
Judith Kogel (Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS)
15:50 Coffee break
16:00 Lords, Judges and Jews
Chair: Jonathan Rubin (Bar-Ilan University)
Jews, Normans and Lordship before the Conquest
Tzafrir Barzilay (Bar-Ilan University)
Between the lines: litigation records and Jewish
everydays in thirteenth-century England
Emma Cavell (Swansea University)
17:20 Coffee break
17:30 Objects in the Responsa of Rabbis in Medieval England
Chana Shacham-Rosby (Bar-Ilan University)
18:15 Dinner
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv University
10:00 Studying The Rabbinic Texts of Medieval England: Challenges and Hopes
Pinchas Roth (Bar-Ilan University)
The study of Jews in medieval England from a pedagogical perspective
Ahuva Liberles (Yale University)
11:00 “The diversity of the Jewish world”: Guided Tour of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People
13:00 Lunch
The organizing committee
Pinchas Roth (Bar-Ilan University) pinchas.roth@biu.ac.il
Ahuva Liberles (Yale University) ahuva.liberles@yale.edu