Research Project Archive

Language

The grammar of Maskilic (Jewish Enlightenment) Hebrew (2017-19) This Philip Leverhulme Prize funded project focuses on producing a detailed linguistic profile of Maskilic Hebrew in its full chronological, geographic, and genre range.
The First Hebrew Shakespeare Translations (2015-2017) Arts and Humanities Research Council project on the earliest translation of Shakespeare’s plays into Hebrew

Anti-Semitism in an Era of Transition. The case of Post-Communist Eastern Central Europe (2009–) In cooperation with SSEES at UCL (funded by the Rothschild Foundation, Europe).
Introductory Poems to the Babylonian Targums A grant from the Rothschild Foundation Europe in the Post-doctoral Research Fellowships Programme.
Towards a New Cultural History of Czernovitz: The Jewish Press, 1918-1940

Transformation of Jewish political culture: Intercession from the early modern period to the 19th century (2002-) Ongoing work by François Guesnet looking at the history of intercession in the history of the European Jewish diaspora

Calendars in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Standardization and Fixation (2013-2018) This ERC funded research project studied the evolution of calendars in late antique and medieval societies, with a special focus on Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.
Medieval Christian and Jewish Calendar Texts from England and Franco-Germany (2011-2013) This Leverhulme-funded research project survived a large number of Hebrew and Latin calendar manuscripts that have been largely neglected until now in modern scholarship, and prepared critical editions and translations of the texts.
The Jewish Calendar in Early Islamic Sources (2010–2012) A Leverhulme-Funded research project focused on Abu Rayhan al-Biruni's Chronology of the Ancient Nations, which contains substantial sections on the Jewish calendar and its historical origins.
Medieval Monographs on the Jewish Calendar (2008–2013) A major Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project to increase understanding and promote the study of medieval writings on the Jewish calendar, by providing access to neglected and largely unpublished works.