Charting Jewish Studies: A Taxonomy for the 21st Century
A comprehensive breakdown of fields, via the user-friendly conference app for the upcoming 2023 annual conference in Frankfurt of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)
Follow-up to my previous post: “I'm going to European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) annual conference in Frankfurt”
Especially interesting, both in general and to me personally, are the following:
“14. Jewish Mysticism and Magic” - notice “magic”!
“15. Manuscript Studies, History of the Jewish Book”
“20. Diversity/Gender/Identity” - with all the controversial aspects of this, many of which I agree with, there’s a lot of really interesting recent research on people at the margins, such as the book I’m reading now: by Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe (2014)
“22. Digital Jewish Studies” and “24. Digital Humanities Workshops”. I recently participated in a workshop focused on digital humanities in Jewish Studies, and it’s incredible how much amazing work is being done.
Here is the full breakdown of fields, based on the app
(https://app.eajs-2023.smart-abstract.com/shell/categories):
1. The Bible and its Reception (including Second Temple Judaism)
2. Ancient Judaism / Archeology
3. Rabbinic Literature and its Reception
4. Medieval Hebrew Literature
5. Modern Jewish Literature
6. Hebrew and Jewish Languages
7. Medieval Judaism
8. Early Modern Judaism
9. Modern Judaism
10. Shoah and Antisemitism
11. Regional and National Judaism
12. Jewish Thought
13. Jewish Liturgy and Ritual
14. Jewish Mysticism and Magic
15. Manuscript Studies, History of the Jewish Book
16. Libraries, Archives, Information Management
17. Jewish Museums and Collections
18. Jewish Art
19. Jewish Performing Arts: Music, Theatre, Film
20. Diversity/Gender/Identity
21. Talking About Jewish Studies
22. Digital Jewish Studies
23. EAJS Emerge
24. Digital Humanities Workshops
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