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Educator-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
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#NewBlogPost Our member Ella Christina Ayyoub writes about "The Portrayal of Jews in Syrian Television Drama Series" - read her blogpost here: www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/the-portraya...

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#CfA | The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Hamburg is seeking a junior professor with tenure track (W1TTW2) of Jewish Studies | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/cfp-... Deadline for applications: June 19, 2025

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Our 50% off sale is live! 🎉🌺 Explore some recent "Best of" titles and save 50% off books (including ebooks and audio) sitewide, with code BLOOM50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... Some exclusions apply. What's first on your #TBR list?

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Our next Online History Course on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Global Jewish Experience starts this week! Up first: Thursday, February 13, 12 PM ET—Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Jewish Women and Modernity in Turn-of-the-Century Baghdad Register: https://buff.ly/4hmUwe6

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UW announces the publication of its first-ever roundtable! it showcases a variety of perspectives on the Global Middle Ages—its possibilities, perils, & problems—from fields associated w/ Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.

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Organizing a medievalist panel for MESA 2025 (DC, Nov 22-25)? MEM board of directors is now inviting submissions for MEM sponsored panels at MESA. Submit panel abstracts with individual paper abstracts by Feb 5 to [email protected] MESA submission deadline is Feb 13th!

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Open access 🔥 Sean W. Anthony and Stephen Shoemaker, Capture of Jerusalem by the Persians in 614 CE isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

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Me, thinking about how medieval Jews saw truth as a kind of bounded multiplicity: bearing multiple, coexisting levels, but not without boundaries. And how it offers a way out of the protracted public conversation we're now having about fact. 🗃️ #medievalsky www.keinrathpublishing.org/product-page...

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Since we are new(ish) to Bluesky, we want to make sure you did not miss all of the wonderful articles we published this year! We publish as soon as articles are through peer review and copyediting, so these have rolled out over the past 12 months: 🧵⬇️

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"Los judíos en los Estados hispánicos medievales: dinámicas sociales y desigualdades sociales" Curso de especialización organizado por Javier Castaño (CCHS, CSIC) en la Facultad de Filología de la Complutense en enero y febrero. Presencial y gratuito previa inscripción: jmed(a)http://csic.es

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Sending this around again. Know of anyone interested in pursuing an MA in Middle Eastern and North African Jewish history? Deadline to apply is Jan. 6, 2025. Would love to welcome some new students to McGill and Montreal.

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Gonna try this here: #skystorians: What articles do you like to use to teach historical methods to undergrads? I'm aware of the classic books, but I would like some shorter & accessible pieces. Thanks! And please reshare!

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Come and study with us! The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois offers MA programs in Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. We also have FLAS funding for students who want to learn Arabic, Persian, Turkish, or Hebrew. Please help me spread the word!

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My Oxford Bibliography on early Christianity and slavery is out! I hope it’s a helpful resource to get an overview of the field as it continues to grow. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

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Hi folks, let's see if anyone is here! Glikl was NOT the only pre-modern Jewish woman who wrote -- check it out! ingeveb.org/articles/wom... #women in #earlymodern #Jewish #History in #Yiddish in @ingeveb

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