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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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Now this ambergris is a very curious substance

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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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Giving a talk today at Northwestern based on my book that’s coming in Fall 2025. The talk is “A Jewish History of Slavery and African Diaspora in the Medieval Middle East.” 4pm Harris Hall. Thanks to NU Jewish Studies and Prof. Brackmeyer for hosting me.

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I’m here because this site is named after the song the band played during the recessional at my wedding. open.spotify.com/track/6iX1QW...

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Hi modest influx of new followers. I’m on here mainly to share resources and learn about. I study and teach the history of the Jews and the medieval Middle East. I’m finishing a history of slavery and the slave trade based on documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue (called the Cairo Geniza).1/

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Does anyone have recommendations for short films by Palestinian filmmakers with English subtitles or in English? Looking for shorts set in Palestine/Israel for an undergraduate class but on any number of themes etc.

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ICYMI: Medieval fashion from Faras brought to life! Researchers have recreated the height of 12th c. North-East African Christian fashion — & divine authority — based on the famous wall paintings of Faras Cathedral, Makuria (one of the medieval Nubian kingdoms) www.medievalists.net/2024/11/medi...

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,168,127! #proud

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I would not be where I am without the inimitable Aomar Boum. I have the immense privilege of being in conversation with him two days in a row in Montreal. The first of our events will take place on Sept. 9 at the Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal. To RSVP, click here: jlive.app/events/8524.

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First issue of JAOS (Journal of the American Oriental Society) for which I've been at the (editorial) helm is at the printers and should be online within a day.

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"The new Documents in Mycenaean Greek" edited by John Killen was published ten days ago by Cambridge. It's a monumental achievement, many years in the making, that finally updates the 2nd edition, which was published in 1973 (!!!): www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

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New research alert!

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