Current Position
16.11.2023- Associate Professor. Academic discipline: STAA-01/H Hebrew, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Campus Ravenna (https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/emma.abate )
01.10.2018- Chargée de Recherche de classe normale [détachement], Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS UPR 841), Section hébraïque and Pole Quadrivium, Paris-Aubervilliers, Bâtiment de recherche Nord, 14, cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers, Francia (https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/annuaire/abate-emma )
Education
2006-2010 Joint-PhD: in «Languages, Literatures and Jewish Civilizations» (École Pratique des Hautes Études [EPHE], Paris) and in «Religious Sciences» (Scuola Alti Studi [SAS], Fondazione San Carlo, Modena).
Dissertation Title: «Manuscripts from the Genizah at the Bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israelite Universelle : an Insight into Jewish Magic».
Supervisors: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE, Paris), Alessandro Catastini (University «La Sapienza», Rome). Defense: 10th June 2010. Summa cum laude / Très honorable avec les félicitations du jury.
2002-2005 PhD: in «Studi filosofici e letterari sul Vicino Oriente Antico e l’Iran Preislamico», Facoltà di Lettere, University «La Sapienza», Rome.
Dissertation Title: «The end of the Kingdom of Zedekiah in 2Kings and in Jeremiah».
Supervisor: Alessandro Catastini (University «La Sapienza», Rome). Defense: 11th January 2006. Summa cum Laude.
1996 – 2001 MA «Hebrew Language and Literature», Faculty of Letters, University «La Sapienza», Rome. 110/110 cum laude.
Qualifications
18.02.2014- Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (ASN), sezione 10/N1 [L-Or/08 Hebrew = STAA-01/H Hebrew] qualification granted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research as «Associate Professor»
2013-2017 Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de conférences Section 21 (« Histoire, civilisations, archéologie et art des mondes anciens et médiévaux »), Conseil National des Universités (CNU), France.
2013-2017 Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de conférences Section 15 (« Langues et littératures arabes, chinoises, japonaises, hébraïques »), Conseil National des Universités (CNU), France.
A Teaching
A 1 Courses
Bologna University «Alma Mater Studiorum», Departement of Cultural Heritage campus Ravenna
2020-2025 «Hebrew and History of Judaism» (BA)
2020-2025 «History of the Jewish Book» (MA)
2022-2025 «Jewish Culture» (MA)
Padova University, Science of Religions
2021-2023 «Alchemy, Kabbalah and Astrology in Early Modern Europe» (MA)
Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
2022-2025 «Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Palaeography, Edition, Cataloguing»
2020-2025 Master EPHE-PSL in Jewish History: «Initiation aux textes de la tradition magique juive»
Rome University “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters
2009-2010 Hebrew Paleography (MA)
A 2 Seminars for the students
Bologna University, «Alma Mater Studiorum», Department of Cultural Heritage, Campus Ravenna
2022-2023 Summer Courses of Hebrew Palaeography and Codicology organised by Laboratorio di Epigrafia e codicologia ebraica (LECE): VIII and IX Corso intensivo di Paleografia ebraica; seminars: «Esercitazioni sulla paleografia dei frammenti della Genizah del Cairo» (07-09.09.2022); “Esercitazioni paleografiche sui manoscritti: dalla Genizah alle biblioteche europee” (07.09.2023)
2018-2022 Seminars for the PhD in Jewish Studies: «Come preparare un golem: manoscritti e istruzioni dal medioevo» (08.02.2018); «Egidio da Viterbo ed Elia Levita: un atelier di studi ebraici nella Roma del Rinascimento» (18.04.2018); «Letture sefardite: libri, frammenti e scribi in viaggio nell’Italia medievale» (03.04.2019); «Gli strumenti e i metodi per l'archivistica, la storiografia, la bibliografia, la paleografia e la codicologia ebraiche»; «Introduzione metodologica» (04.05.2020)
Paris, IRHT-CNRS, Aubervilliers
2023-2024 Stage d’Initiation au manuscrit médiévale, IRHT-CNRS, ateliers: « Généalogie d'un fonds et description de manuscrits. La pluralité d’histoires à l'origine de la collection hébraïque de la BnF »
Paris, IRHT-CNRS, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
2023-2024 Stage d’Initiation au manuscrit médiévale, IRHT-CNRS, atelier: «Les manuscrits hébreux enluminés, scientifiques, mystiques et philosophiques»
2020-2022 Stage d’Initiation au manuscrit médiévale, IRHT-CNRS, atelier: «Manuscrits hébreux d’Occident : Textes et écritures, colophon et iconographie»
Paris, IRHT-CNRS, Iéna
2013-2020 Stage d’Initiation au manuscrit médiévale, IRHT-CNRS, ateliers : «La mise en page dans les manuscrits hébreux du Moyen Âge»; «Manuscrits hébreux du Moyen Âge : production, consommation, voyages»
Paris, INALCO
2021 Master Philosophie et pensée juives – Introduction, seminar: «La magie dans la culture juive» (22.11.2021)
Oxford University-Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
2022 Course of Hebrew Palaeography, seminar: «Hebrew Manuscripts Copied in Italy in the 16th Century: Scribal Practices and Palaeography», Bodleian Library (04-05.07.2022)
Rome, Ecole Française (EFR)
2024 Course of Hebrew Palaeography and Codicology, seminar: «Introduction to Hebrew Codicology» (16.09.2024)
Rome University “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Letters
2023 Corso di alta formazione in “Studi sul Mediterraneo e il Vicino Oriente nella Tarda Antichità e nell’Alto Medioevo”, seminar: «Amuleti, ricette segrete e trattati di magia: testimonianze della Geniza» (09.2023)
2017 Corso di alta formazione in Jewish History, seminar: «Cultura e produzione culturale tra Medioevo e Rinascimento» (25.05.2017)
A 3 Tutoring Activity
2022-2025 Scientific Tutor of Alice Frisoni, Phd student in “Cultural Heritage” (XXXVIII cycle), Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna.
13.04.2024 Tutor of Cristina Zoffoli, MA thesis in “Scienze Storiche e Orientalistiche”, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”
13.04.2024 Co-tutor of Francesco Carelli, MA thesis in “Scienze Storiche e Orientalistiche”, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”
09.11.2023 Member of the Scientific Board of the Joint-PhD dissertation in “Jewish Studies” of Giorgio Paolo Campi, Niccolò Faustin, between Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum” and École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE-PSL, Paris
10.2021-09.2023 Tutor of Antonio Giulio Spagnuolo, postdoc at Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna
05.07.2023 Tutor of India Bianchi, BA thesis in Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna
29.06.2023 Member of the Scientific Board of the BA thesis in “Lettere” of Laura Cabassi, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”
22.06.2023 Member of the Scientific Board of the Joint-PhD dissertation in “Jewish Studies” of Luigi Bambaci, Sebastiano Crestani, Isabella Maurizio, between Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum” and École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE-PSL, Paris
31.03.2023 Member of the «Comité de suivi de thèse» of Aida Alavi, École Doctorale Montaigne-Humanités, Bordeaux.
02.12.2022 Member of the Scientific Board (examinateur) of Roberta Tonnarelli’s PhD disseration, in «Languages, Literatures and Jewish Civilizations, ED 472» École Pratiques des Hautes Études (EPHE-SAPRAT).
18.03.2022 Co-tutor of Margherita Pepoli, MA thesis in “Filologia, Letteratura e tradizione classica”, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”.
27.05.2021 Member of the Scientific Board of the Joint-PhD dissertation in “Jewish Studies” of Michele Armellini, Diletta Biagini, Giulia Dodi, Massimiliano Marrazza, Antonio Giulio Spagnuolo, between Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum” and École Pratique des Hautes Études, EPHE-PSL, Paris
15.03.2021 Co-tutor of Letizia Fiorelli, Giulietta Gavazzi, Anastasia Giunchi, BA thesis in “Cultural Heritage”, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna
2020 – 2023 Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD in Jewish Studies at Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna.
02.10.2020 Member of the Scientific Board (rapporteur) of Odile Dapsens’ joint PhD disseration, between Université d’Orléans and Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).
2019-2020 Scientific Tutor of Sofia Locatelli, post-doc École Pratiques des Hautes Études (EPHE-SAPRAT), Paris. Project: «Scribes et Écritures dans l’Europe juive du Moyen-Âge: production, circulation et recyclage de manuscrits hébreux».
2019-2020 Scientific Tutor of Margherita Mantovani, post-doc Laboratoire d’Excellence HASTEC, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS UPR 841), Paris. Project: « Transmission de traditions hénochiques et interprétations du voyage céleste à la Renaissance »
2007-2016 Teaching Assistant of the chairs of «Hebrew» and « Semitic Philology », Faculty of Letters, «Sapienza» University of Rome
A 4 Teaching in other research institutions
2024-2025 Ferrara, Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo italiano e della Shoah (MEIS), Online Course
2022–2024 Rome, Centro Cardinal Bea per gli Studi Giudaici (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)-Archivio Storico della comunità ebraica (ASCER): Course «Percorsi sefarditi, storia, cultura e tradizione manoscritta»
2023 Florence, Scuola di Studi e Cultura Ebraici Shemah, Margulies-Levinas, Online Course: «La mistica ebraica dall’Antichità al Rinascimento».
B Research Activity
B 1 Projects Direction, Coordination or participation
10.2021 – 10.2025 PI of the project granted by «Agence nationale de la recherche» (ANR), France, n° AAPG2021 : https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE27-0009
Title: « BiNaH: Bibliothèque Nationale “Hebraica”: Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris». Site: https://dev.irht.cnrs.fr/iiris-BiNah/web/
2023 – Member of the project PRIN2022 (PRIN2022K2FYZS)
Title: «Visualizing Jewish Cultural Heritage. Toward a Digital and Dynamic Atlas: People, Artifacts, Books and Manuscripts in Global Italy (15th-20th centuries)». PI Saverio Campanini (Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”).
2023 – Member of the project PRIN2022 PNRR.
Title: «REDDIS-REcycled meDieval DIplomatic fragmentS». PI dell’Unità Bolognese Maddalena Modesti (Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”).
2021 – Director of Laboratory “LECE” (Laboratory of Hebrew Epigraphy and Codicology) Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna.
12.2016 – 12.2020 PI of the project « Émergences 2016 » granted by Ville de Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Title: « Scribes et Écritures dans l’Europe juive du Moyen – Âge : production, circulation et recyclage de manuscrits hébreux ».
11.2014 – Scientific Coordinator of the International project Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries (BwB). Site: http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris directed by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger.
B 2 Membership
2022 – President Comité de Paléographie Hébraïque, Paris
2021 – Secretary Associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo (AISG)
2021 – Member of Societé des Études Juives (SEJ)
2021 – Member of Société Asiatique
2013 – Member of Laboratoire d’Excellence HASTEC, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
2011 – Chercheur Associé Équipe Savoirs et pratiques du Moyen – Age au XIXe siècle (SAPRAT) – École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
2010 – Member of European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)
B 3 Editorial Boards
2023 – Member of the editorial board of the series Fragmenta Mundi, Urbino, Urbino University Press
2021 – Member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Materia Giudaica, Giuntina, Florence
2021 – Member of the editorial board of Books within Books Magazine (https://bwb.hypotheses.org/ )
2019 – Member of the editorial board of “Biblioteca di Cultura Ebraica Italiana” directed by Giuseppe Veltri, Paideia, Torino
Peer reviewer Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography; European Journal of Jewish Studies (EJJS); Henoch; Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft; Materia Giudaica; Notariorum Itinera; Rassegna mensile d’Israel; Religions; Sefer Yuḥasin | Review for the History of the Jews in South Italy; Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni; YOD Revue des études hébraïques et juives; Zakhor.
B 4 post-doctoral Research Projects
09.2016 – 08.2018 Post-doc Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf
Title of the research: «Books within Books (BwB): Hebrew Fragments in Italian and French Libraries and Archives».
11.2014 –10.2015 Post-doc EPHE-Biblissima-SAPRAT, Parigi
Project Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries (BwB).
11.2013 – 10.2014 Post-doc Laboratoire d’Excellence HASTEC/Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS UPR 841), Paris
Title of the project: «Gilles de Viterbe traducteur et la transmission du savoir juif à la Renaissance. La version Latine du Sefer ha-Shorashim de Dawid Qimḥi».
03.2013 – 02.2014 Post-doc at Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, Department of Cultural Heritage, campus Ravenna
Title of the project: «Frammenti di manoscritti ebraici medievali in legature: nuove indagini».
11.2011 – 10.2012 Post-doc « Research in Paris » de la Ville de Paris/Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS UPR 841), Paris
Title of the project: «Magie et prière dans le judaïsme médiéval : étude critique de sources et documents conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France et à la Bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israelite Universelle à Paris».
11.2010 – 10.2011 Post-doc : Rothschild Foundation Europe (Hanadiv)/ Faculty of Letters, Rome University “La Sapienza”
Title of the project: «Catalogo dei manoscritti ebraici della biblioteca Angelica di Roma».
01.2011 – 07.2011 Fellowship European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies (ESAJS), The Material Texts of the Genizah Collection at the Bodleian Library: A New Approach to Genizah Research, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford
Title of the project: «Studies on Liturgical Fragments from the Bodleian’s Library Genizah Collection».
11.2008 – 10.2010 Post-doc at the Faculty of Letters, Rome University “La Sapienza”
Title of the project: «Edizione e commento di testi magici ebraici e aramaici».
B 5 Grants
11.2007 – 10.2008 Premio: Promozione Ricerca 2005, CNR
Title of the project: «Commentario di testi magici in ebraico e aramaico [«Commentary on Hebrew and Aramaic magical Texts»]» scholarship granted by the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
2004 Premio: “Pubblicazione opere editoriali”, scholarship granted by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) for the publication of I libri ebraici della Biblioteca Angelica I. Incunaboli e cinquecentine (with S. De Gese), Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Roma 2005.
1999 – 2001 Scholarship granted by the Faculty of Letters of Rome University «La Sapienza», at CISADU (Centro Interdipartimentale per l’Automazione delle Discipline Umanistiche [Interdepartemental Centre for the Automation in Humanities])
B 6 Conferences
B 6.1 international Conferences, Congresses and workshops
16-19.09.2024 «Yosef ben Shalom Ashkenazi’s and Kabbalistic Diagrams in Hebrew Fragments from Urbino State Archive», Ilanot Workshop, Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo
25-27.06.2024 «Representing the invisible: Iconology and Grotesque in Jewish Magic Artifacts», Congress Early Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions in Comparison and Contact, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
18-19.06.2024 «Elias Levita’s Position towards Kabbalah: Skeptical or Apologetic?», International Workshop Questioning Authority: Kabbalah between Dialectical Disputes, Religious Dissent, and Proto-Academic Scholarship in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Maimonides Centre Hamburg
21.03.2024 «Blood and Wine in Abraham Yagel’s Moshia’ ḥosim», Panel Red and White: Blood, Bread, and Wine in Jewish Mystical and Practical Knowledge, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago 2024, Annual Meeting
25.10.2023 «Rédaction et transmission des manuscrits kabbalistiques de Yeḥiel Nissim da Pisa : contexte urbain et genres textuels», colloque international SION-Cities, Au-delà de l’assignation géographique : portraits de juifs dans l’Europe prérévolutionnaire, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Paris
20.07.2023 «Paratextual elements in the Kabbalistic and magical manuscripts of BNF», Panel BiNaH: an Ongoing Research on the Hebrew Collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, X Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Frankfurt
12.07.2023 «Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh (Wisdom of the Soul), from Eleazar of Worms (1160-1238) to Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Translation», International Workshop Kabbalistic Afterlives: Copies, Reproductions & Textual Circulation in the Making of Postmedieval Kabbalah in Central and Eastern Europe, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Institute for Jewish Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
29-30.05.2023 «Scribes and Translators, Kabbalists and Physicians: An Ongoing Survey on Manuscripts and Jewish Sources from the Circles of Egidio da Viterbo and Jacob Mantino», Jacob Mantino (1490–1549): Translator, Physician and First Jewish Teacher at La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Filosofia, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
19.05.2023 «Amulets and Recipes: A pinch of Magic from the Hebrew manuscripts collection
of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)», International Hybrid Conference, The intertwining of magic and knowledge/sciences in the premodern Mediterranean (and beyond), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen/University College London/Freie Universität Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study, Paris
18.05.2023 «Una lettura rinascimentale del sogno nel trattato Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh di Eleazar da Worms (1176-1238)», I sogni nel Rinascimento, Georgetown University, Villa Le Balze, Fiesole
08-09.05.2023 «Recipes and potions in the Hebrew collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France: a general presentation and cases study», Premodern Jewish Magical Affairs: Textual Transmission, Authority, and Practices of Esoteric Knowledge, Freie Universität Berlin/Università Ca ’Foscari, Venezia
16-18.04.2023 «Reading Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh in Renaissance Rome», Christian Kabbalah – 16th Lavy Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
16-17.01.2023 «Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi ebraista e semitista», Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi studioso della letteratura ebraica e dei suoi testimoni, Soncino
10-12.11.2022 «Temple Vessels: a Brief Account of their Iconography and Tradition in Hebrew Biblical Manuscripts from Spain and Italy», The Menorah and Sevenbranched Candelabrum, Universität Tübingen
08-12.08.2022 «Love, Eat, Pray: Supplements to Iggeret ha-Kodesh in context», Panel Kabbalah, Healthcare, and Sexuality: Prescription Leaflets and Recipe Books in Late Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Manuscript Cultures, 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
26-29.06.2022 «Iconographic inventory and cataloguing of kabbalistic diagrams in BiNaH (Bibliothèque Nationale “Hebraica”: Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris», Israel Science Foundation Workshop - Challenges of Schriftbildlichkeit/Iconotextuality for Digital Editions of Diagrammatic Manuscripts, Haifa University, Tel Aviv/Nazaret
31.03.2022 «Kabbalistic readings. A Glance into Renaissance libraries of the Jewish Communities in Central Italy», Panel The Itinerary of Jewish Witnesses. From Repository to Diaspora — From Diaspora to Repository, 68th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Dublin
14.02.2022 «Egidio da Viterbo’s Notes on Keter Shem Ṭov », with Bill Rebiger, Editing Kabbalistic Texts. New Philological and Digital Approaches, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (online)
13.12.2021 «Seder pe‘ulat ha-Yetsirah («Ordre de l’acte de la Formation»): tradition, technique magique, enjeux», Deuxième Congrès de la Société des Études Juives (SEJ), Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris/Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
14.11.2021 «Fabriquer un golem à travers le Sefer Yetsirah : rite et récit au Moyen-Âge dans les manuscrits copiés en Italie», Sefer Yetzirah. Histoire et réception d’un texte kabbalistique majeur, Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris
20.04.2021 «Kabbalah into Italian: The Circle of Egidio da Viterbo», Panel Reconsidering Hebrew Scholarship in Early Modern Catholic Contexts: A Global Enterprise I, 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Virtual congress: https://www.rsa.org/page/Virtual2021 )
14.01.2020 «Jewish scribes and translators in the Renaissance Rome: who was in the workshop of Egidio of Viterbo?», Imagining the Renaissance / Defining the Jews, The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.
11.11.2019 «Hebrew Divine Names in Latin and Italian: Outlooks from Renaissance Rome», Magic & Language. Jewish and Christian Magic in Early Modern Europe, Universität Leipzig
09.10.2019 «L’historiola ou la naissance de la tradition. Éléments de magie juive», Panel Magie, rites, savoirs : une tradition de l’innovation ? GIS Religions – pratiques, textes, pouvoirs : La Tradition, Maison Internationale des Langues et des Cultures, Lyon
02.07.2019 «Fonction théurgique de la voix chantée chez Eléazar de Worms (v. 1176-1238)», Premier Congrès de la Société des Études Juives (SEJ), Strasbourg
07.06.2019 «Legends of the Talmud: From Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic to Vernacular Italian in Renaissance Rome», International Conference Global Religious Translation in the Early Modern Period, 6-8 June 2019, Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt, Gotha
11.05.2019 «Hebrew fragments of a Unique Sephirotic Tree of Life (ilan) in Rome and in Tel Aviv», Panel Magic, Multilingual Papyri, Books within Books, 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
17.03.2019 «Giles of Viterbo Translations and the Language of the Holy Spirit», Session Title: "Adamic Language" and Renaissance Lexicography: Influences in Theory and Translation II, 65th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto
05.09.2018 «Postscriptum: dieta e preghiera per favorire il ḥibbur», Panel La Iggeret ha-qodesh fra tradizione e ricezione, in Nuovi contributi e ricerche sulla storia e la cultura dell’ebraismo de l’Associazione italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG), Ravenna
19.07.2018 «The shape of magic and theurgy as performative books», Panel From Cairo to Amsterdam: Hebrew Scrolls from the 10th to the 18th Centuries, “Distinguished panel”, XI International Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Paris
17.07.2018 «Jewish translators at work in the Renaissance Rome: The case of the Library of Egidio of Viterbo », Panel Egidio of Viterbo and the Christian Reception of Kabbalah, XI International Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Paris
30.05.2018 «Notes on the Divine. Giles of Viterbo studying Kabbalistic Manuscripts», Eighth INASWE International Conference : Western Esotericism and the Concept of God(s), Mandel Scholion Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
07.08.2017 «Magical and Kabbalistic Fragments in European Libraries and Archives», Panel Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. Discoveries and Updates, 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
20.06.2017 «Magical and Kabbalistic Fragments in Italian Libraries and Archives», Panel Books within Books : Hebrew Fragments in Italian Libraries. Discoveries and Updates, Ex Nihilo – “Zero Conference” on Research in the Religious Fields, European Academy of Religion, Bologna
02-03.05.2017 «Hebrew Fragments from the Archives and Libraries of Rome», European Genizah. Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
20-22.09.2016 «Frammenti di un discorso magico: demonologia e divinazione a Qumran», Nuove luci sulla Bibbia e l’Ebraismo. I manoscritti di Qumran a settant’anni dalla scoperta (1947-2017), Associazione italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG), Ferrara-Ravenna
06-07.06.2016 «Chameaux, oiseaux, scorpions et autres démons: sources manuscrites et typologies textuelles», Magikon Zōon : Animal et magie / the Animal in Magic, Maison de la Recherche, Paris
10.03.2016 «La qabbalah in volgare. Manoscritti dall’atelier di Egidio da Viterbo», Umanesimo e cultura ebraica nel Rinascimento italiano, Palazzo Rucellai, Firenze
01-02.09.2015 «Raziel a Roma, le copie di Egidio da Viterbo (1469-1532)», L’eredità di Salomone. La magia ebraica in Italia e nel Mediterraneo, Associazione italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG), Ferrara-Ravenna
23-29.08.2015 «An atelier of Jewish Studies in the core of the 16th century Papal Rome», XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Erfurt
05-09.07.2015 «Azazel and the Fallen Angels in the magical fragments from the Genizah», Egyptian and Jewish Magic in Antiquity, Universität Bonn.
23.07.2014 «Sefer ha-Shorashim versus Raziel. Lexicography facing the magical heritage», X Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Paris.
21.07.2014 «Books within Books database» (con S. Di Donato), X Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Paris
28.09.2012 «La collezione ebraica di Egidio da Viterbo alla Biblioteca Angelica: filologia e qabbalah», Egidio da Viterbo Cardinale Agostiniano. Tra Roma e l’Europa del Rinascimento, Roma-Viterbo
12-13.09.2011 «Controllare i demoni nella tradizione ebraica medievale. Formule magiche e rituali dalla Genizah del Cairo», Congress Caratteri religiosi. Forme della parola scritta e pratiche rituali, École Pratique des Hautes Études/Scuola Alti Studi Collegio San Carlo, Modena
25-29.07.2010 «Magic and Cabbala in Abraham Yagel’s Moshia Hosim», IX Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) «Judaism in the Mediterranean Context», Ravenna
16-19.09.2009 «Testi magici della biblioteca della Alliance Israelite Universelle di Parigi», XXIII Congress of Associazione italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG), Ravenna
B 6.2 seminars, Round Tables and ateliers
30.04.2024 «Frammenti documentari ebraici: tipologia dei ritrovamenti studiati nell’ambito del progetto Books within Books», seminar Rappresentare la frammentarietà. per una metodologia descrittiva dei frammenti documentari medievali di riuso, progetto REDDIS-REcycled meDieval DIplomatic fragmentS, University of Milan
21.03.2024 Round Table “Spatializing Jewish History in Italy: Towards a Digital and Dynamic Atlas of Culture and Society”, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago 2024, Annual Meeting
05.02.2024 Round Table «Persone e idee in movimento: il ruolo degli ebrei nella vita economica, politica e sociale in Italia nel lungo Rinascimento (XIV-XVII secolo), Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”
27.03.2024 «Rotoli miniati di Ester: ricerche recenti su alcuni manoscritti prodotti in Italia», Congress Ester nella storia, Università di Roma, “Tor Vergata”
11.09.2023 «I manoscritti cabbalistici di Yeḥiel Nissim da Pisa», journée d’étude Du fragment au livre : manuscrits hébreux en Italie médiévale, École Française à Rome
09.12.2022 «Créer à travers le Sefer Yetsira : tradition et rituel dans les manuscrits hébreux du Moyen Age», Le surnaturel dans les religions du Livre : quelques pistes d’interprétation, Université Strasbourg
28.09.2022 «Sources hébraïques provenant des milieux franco-juifs redécouvertes grâce aux projets “Books within Books” et “BiNaH”», round table Une histoire d'absence ou un siècle oublié ? Témoigner des Juifs dans la France prémoderne, Project SION-Digit (IRHT), Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux
26.01.2022 «Historical Booklists», Knowledge and Material Texts in Jewish Studies, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Institute for Jewish Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (online)
21.01.2022 «Dérouler la tradition du Golem : légendes et rituels entre Antiquité et Moyen Âge», Science et magie entre Orient et Occident, Centre Augustin Thierry, CNRS-IRHT/Université d’Orléans
24.11.2021 « Les visions cosmologiques dans le Secret de l’Œuvre de la Création d’Eléazar de Worms », Les « révélations » comme support de transmission d’un savoir cosmologique, Journée thématique de l’IRHT, Paris-Aubervilliers
30.09.2021 « Catalogue et édition des textes de magie et de cabbale : le cas du ms hébreu 765 », Les manuscrits hébreux de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: textes et contextes, Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris
26-27.07.2021 « Loans of Hebrew Books in Early Modern Rome », Workshop on the historical terminology of Jewish books, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Universität Hamburg (online)
20.01.2021 «Le Sefer Yetsirah complet», seminar Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris
09.12.2020 «Un albero sefirotico in frammenti e le sue radici diffuse nel Rinascimento ebraico», Gli ebrei a Roma nell’età di Raffaello, Museo ebraico di Roma (online)
04.02.2020 «Les démons dans les rouleaux : aperçu général sur la magie dans les manuscrits de la mer Morte», seminar Qumrân de Paris. Questions actuelles sur les manuscrits de la Mer Morte et les littératures connexes: Qumrân en Contexte, École Pratique des Hautes Études/LEM, Institut protestant de théologie, Paris
05.11.2019 «Le Golem : de l’Homo Factus à l’Homo Faber», with A. Ackerman, seminar Actualités et Renouveau des Études Juives, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris.
15.09.2019 «Razi’el a Urbino: i frammenti mistici dell'Archivio di Stato », Workshop 37 Anni Di Ricerca Sui Frammenti. Dalla “Genizah Italiana” A Books Within Books, Seminario Arcivescovile di Ravenna
26.02.2019 «À la recherche de la langue parfaite : Gilles de Viterbe, traducteur et lexicographe», Workshop Projet «Racines», Dictionnaires de l'hébreu biblique au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, IRHT, Paris
10.01.2019 «Stratigrafia del maḥazor di Bologna conservato all’Archivio Storico della CER», Il machazor di Bologna e la formazione del minhag romano, Museo Ebraico di Roma
10.12.2018 «Les cas des fragments séfarades en Italie: cartographie, typologie et techniques des scribes», con P. Lucca, Les manuscrits hébraïques & l’Ephe Centcinquante ans d’histoire, X Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
03.12.2018 «La magie juive entre Orient et Occident à travers le cas de la Geniza du Caire et de la traduction latine du Sefer Razielis», con O. Dapens, cycle d’ateliers La magie dans l’Orient juif, chrétien et musulman : recherches en cours et études de cas, IRHT-EHESS, Paris
19.10.2018 «L’héritage de Salomon: techniques de convocation des démons à toute heure de la nuit dans un manuscrit hébreu de la BnF», Le roi Salomon au Moyen Âge: savoirs et représentations, CESFIMA/IRHT, Centre Dupanloup, Orléans
06-07.09.2017 «How to summon the spirits. Instructions and manuscript tradition», EAJS Summer Laboratory for Young Genizah Researchers and those interested in the field, Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
05-08.07.2017 «Mots pour les hommes, mots pour les démons. Petit lexique familial de la magie juive», atelier Les mots, les sorts: le lexique de la magie dans les mondes musulmans, Deuxième congrès du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, INALCO, Paris
14.06.2017 «Il riutilizzo di manoscritti talmudici in età moderna. Frammenti in archivi e biblioteche dell’Italia centrale», Un Talmud per chi? Storia difficile di un libro difficile, Facoltà di Lettere, Università of Rome “La Sapienza”
14.05.2017 «Donner vie au Golem: analyse de textes de la mystique juive sur la fabrication de golems », Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris
17.03.2017 «S’habiller du Nom : Recherches autour du rite du Malbush», séminaire Débat cabalistiques sur les Noms divins à l’aube de la Renaissance, CNRS-LEM, Paris
09.03.2017 «Les objets à usage magique juifs et musulmans: de la sphère privée à la sphère publique, fabrication et circulation », atelier La magie dans l’Orient chrétien, juif et musulman : comparaison de pratiques et pratiques en comparaison, LabEx Hastec-CéSor EHESS, Paris
24-25.11.2016 «The Production of the Golem in Medieval Ashkenazi Texts, Mystical and Lexicographical Sources », Magie et Philosophie. Les arts trompeurs. Machines. Magie. Médias, ENS Louis-Lumière, Paris
09.10.2016 «Iniziazione alla Qabbalah di un ebraista cristiano del Rinascimento», Museo ebraico Fausto Levi, Soragna (Parma)
27.05.2016 «Nouvelles lumières sur la tradition du Sode Rezayya (‘Secret des secrets’) d’Eléazar de Worms (XIIe – XIIIe siècles) », atelier La magie dans l’Orient chrétien, juif et musulman : comparaison de pratiques et pratiques en comparaison, LabEx Hastec, Paris
01.12.2015 «Les fragments des Archives d’État d’Urbino», Archives, Genizah et recyclage des manuscrits dans la culture juive, 7e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
20.05.2015 «Contrôler les démons. Promenade à travers une tradition dangereuse », Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (MAHJ), Paris
04.05.2015 «Prière et magie dans le judaïsme médiéval : les hymnes dans le Sefer Raziel», séminaire Varia Judaica, Nouvelle Gallia Judaica, Montpellier
02.12.2014 «Elie Lévita lexicographe : autographes et éditions », Lexiques et glossaires dans le monde juif médiéval : langues, manuscrits et organisation du savoir, 6e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
06.05.2014 «La racine גלם et le Golem à la Renaissance. Translatio Studiorum ou hybridations conceptuelles ?», con F. Buzzetta, LabEx Hastec, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
07.10.02.2014 «Figures angéliques et démoniaques dans la tradition magique juive», seminario Images et magie dans le monde oriental médiéval, Université Paris Diderot, Paris
16.04.2014 «Demoni, scongiuri e segullot: tradizioni magiche tra la Via Emilia e la Genizah», mostra Eresie e magie tra Modena e Bologna. Il Tribunale dell’Inquisizione di Modena e il controllo della fede sul territorio dopo la Controriforma, Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Modena
11.12.2013 «Fonctions apotropaïques dans les manuscrits hébreux du Moyen Âge: le cas des manuscrits de la bibliothèque Angelica à Rome», Éléments visuels non-textuels et para-textuels : les éléments graphiques dans les manuscrits hébreux et judéo-arabes, 5e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’ École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
03.12 2013 «Les racines des démons. Entrées démonologiques dans le lexique de David Qimhi», Angélologie, démonologie et spiritualisation du réel, LabEx Hastec, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
28.04.2013 «Le intenzioni della preghiera (kawwanot) nell’opera di Immanuel Chay Ricchi», Immanuel Chay Ricchi (Ferrara 1688 – Cento 1743), un cabalista itinerante nell’Italia del settecento, Festa del Libro Ebraico 2013, Ferrara-Cento
13.11.2012 «Hommes et anges: le pouvoir de l’écriture de noms à la Guenizah», Nommer, se nommer: écrire les noms dans les manuscrits judéo-arabes, arabes et hébraïques, 4e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’ École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
8.11.2012 «Adam et Ève, Lilith dehors! Exégèse juive et images démoniaques», Écriture et écritures. La langue, l’image, le quotidien, IRHT/CNRS, Paris
09.12.2011 «Médecine et magie dans la cure de la peste: sources manuscrites et typologies textuelles», Les crises sanitaires en Méditerranée antique et médiévale (2) : vers des nouvelles approches, Université de Nantes/Université de Poitiers
18.09.2011 «Manuscripts for contacting the demons from the Cairo Genizah. Samples from the Bodleian Library», Tel Aviv University
22.06.2011 «Prayers for healing at the Genizah: an Insight into Bodleian Library’s Sources », European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies (ESAJS): The Material Texts of the Genizah Collection at the Bodleian Library: A New Approach to Genizah Research, Bodleian Library, Oxford
12.05.2011 «Rainmen from the Genizah. An Analysis of Fragments from the Bodleian Library», European Seminar on Advanced Jewish Studies (ESAJS): The Material Texts of the Genizah Collection at the Bodleian Library : A New Approach to Genizah Research, Exeter College, Oxford
03.03 2011 «Prayers from the Genizah: Materials, Texts and Tradition of Medieval Jewish Liturgy», Lunch Time Seminars in Jewish Studies, Oriental Institute, Oxford
22.11.2010 «Vers un nouveau catalogue des manuscrits en caractères hébraïques à la Biblioteca Angelica à Rome», colloque Les manuscrits hébreux et l’Italie, 2e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
16.11.2009 «Pages manquantes: une étude sur les fragments magiques de la Guéniza conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle», Les travaux en cours sur les manuscrits hébreux à l’EPHE. État de recherche et perspectives, 1e Journée d’étude en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
06-09.07.2009 «Studies on Hebrew Amulets from the Alliance Israelite Universelle’s Genizah Collection», Manuscripts and History in the Jewish Middle Ages. X colloquium of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Wolfson College, Oxford
B 6.3 Organization of Scientific Meetings
09-10.09.2024 XXXVII International Congress AISG, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, co-organization with Mauro Perani and Enrica Sagradini
21.03.2024 Panel Red and White: Blood, Bread, and Wine in Jewish Mystical and Practical Knowledge, Renaissance Society of America, 2024, Annual Meeting, co-organization with Agatha Paluch (University of Berlin), Chicago (IL)
09.2022-2023 Summer Courses of Hebrew Palaeography and Codicology: VIII and IX Corso intensivo di Paleografia ebraica, seminars by Emma Abate, Corrado Martone, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Mauro Perani. Co-organization with Mauro Perani and Enrica Sagradini, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna.
04-05.09.2023 XXXVI International Congress AISG, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, co-organization with Mauro Perani and Enrica Sagradini
16-21.07.2023 Panel BiNaH : an Ongoing Research on the Hebrew Collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, X International Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Frankfurt
08-10.05.2023 International Congress: Frammenti e frammentarietà nelle discipline umanistiche e nei beni culturali, Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, DISCUI – Scuola di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, co-organization between Università di Urbino, Università di Macerata, Archivio di Stato di Pesaro e Urbino and the project Books within Books Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries
02.03.2023 Seminars Morte e Aldilà nell’ebraismo attraverso le fonti epigrafiche e letterarie / Death and Afterlife in Judaism through Epigraphic and Literary Sources (conferences by Elena Lolli, Chiara Benini, Antonio Giulio Spagnuolo and Sonia Fellous), Laboratorio di epigrafia e codicologia ebraica (LECE), Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”. Coorganised with Antonio Spagnuolo (Bologna University)
02.03.2023 Seminars Sefarad: Arte e storia nel libro ebraico manoscritto / Sefarad: Art and History in Hebrew Manuscripts (conferences by Sonia Fellous and Javier del Barco, Complutense University of Madrid), Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”.
11.01.2023 Online seminar by Maurizio Mottolese, Mistica ed ethos, esoterismo e divulgazione: la scuola cabalistica di Cordovero e De Vidas (Safed, XVI secolo), Università degli studi di Padova
15.12.2022 Seminar by Saverio Campanini (Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”), Francesco Zorzi, frate cabalista, Università degli studi di Padova
07.12.2022 Online seminar by Giacomo Corazzol (IRHT-CNRS, Parigi) and Flavia Buzzetta (LEM-CNRS, Parigi), Filosofia Qabbalah e Magia in Pico della Mirandola, Università degli studi di Padova
05-07.09.2022 XXXV International Congress AISG, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, co-organization with Mauro Perani and Enrica Sagradini
18.05.2022 Giornata dottorale in «Jewish Studies», Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, co-organization with Saverio Campanini and Mauro Perani
02-05.2022 Cycle of seminars: Arte, letteratura e storia nelle lapidi dei cimiteri ebraici italiani, Laboratorio di epigrafia e codicologia ebraica, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna. Co-organization Antonio Spagnuolo (Bologna University).
31.03.2022 Panel The Itinerary of Jewish Witnesses. From Repository to Diaspora — From Diaspora to Repository, 68th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Dublin. Co-organised with Evelien Chajes (IRHT-CNRS)
13.01.2022 Seminar by Saverio Campanini (Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”), Redenzione attraverso il peccato, Università degli studi di Padova
24.11.2021 Journée thématique de l’IRHT : Les « révélations » comme support de transmission d’un savoir cosmologique, Co-organization with Isabelle Draelants and Jean-Charles Coulon (IRHT-CNRS), Paris-Aubervilliers
01-03.09.2021 XXXIV International Congress AISG, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, co-organization with Mauro Perani and Enrica Sagradini
21-22.06.2021 Annual meeting Books within Books. Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries, co-organization with Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE) and Wissem Gueddich (EPHE)
28.01.2021 Round table: Frammenti di memoria. dialogo tra spigolatori di manoscritti ebraici in Italia, Francia e Polonia, co-organization with Mauro Perani, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna, and Books within Books, EPHE, Paris
15.09.2019 Workshop 37 Anni Di Ricerca Sui Frammenti. Dalla “Genizah Italiana” A Books Within Books, Seminario Arcivescovile di Ravenna. Co-organization with Mauro Perani (Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”)
19.07.2018 Panel: From Cairo to Amsterdam: Hebrew Scrolls from the 10th to the 18th Centuries, “Distinguished panel”, XI Internazional Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Krakow
07.08.2017 Panel: Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries. Discoveries and Updates, XVII World Congress in Jewish Studies, University of Jersualem. Co-organization with Justine Isserles (EPHE)
20.06.2017 Panel: Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in Italian Libraries. Discoveries and Updates, in Ex Nihilo – “Zero Conference” on Research in the Religious Fields, European Academy of Religion, Bologna. Co-organization with Justine Isserles.
01-02.09.2015 Congresso internazionale: L’eredità di Salomone. La magia ebraica in Italia e nel Mediterraneo, de l’Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Giudaismo (AISG), Ferrara-Ravenna (Italie). Co-organization with Mauro Perani and Saverio Campanini (Università di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”).
02.12.2014 Colloque : Lexiques et glossaires dans le monde juif médiéval : langues, manuscrits et organisation du savoir, Paris (6e Journée d’étude doctorale et postdoctorale en paléographie et diplomatique hébraïques de l’EPHE, Paris) (http://lexiquesetglossaires.blogspot.fr/ ). Co-organization with Giacomo Corazzol EPHE, Paris.
20-24.07.2014 Panel: Jewish Magic from the Antiquity to the Modern World. Co-organization with Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University), X International Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Paris
C Third mission
C 1 book presentations and conferences in libraries, museums and Books shops
02.07.2024 « Un albero sefirotico in frammenti. Visioni celesti e tecniche cabalistiche», Libreria Kiryat Sefer – Centro di Cultura della Comunità ebraica, Roma
18.01.2024 « Amulettes juives, outils de protection et objets d’art », cycle Art et archéologie du judaïsme, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Paris
30.11.2023 «“Books within Books”: frammenti di manoscritti ebraici in archivi e biblioteche di Rimini », cycle Voci dai fondi. La Biblioteca raccontata- “Cultura ebraica a Rimini nel 500: frammenti manoscritti e il Sefer Col Bo stampato da G. Soncino”, Biblioteca Gambalunga, Rimini.
28.11.2023 «Le strade verso Gaza tra drammi e conflitti prospettive storiche e scenari del presente», round table, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna.
16.03.2023 Presentation of the book by J.H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree, Penn State University Press 2022, with J.H. Chajes (Haifa University), Saverio Campanini (Unibo), Fabrizio Lelli (‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome)
21.02.2023 Presentation of the book by Enrico Fubini and Laurence Wuidar, Oltre l’ineffabile. Musiche di tradizione ebraica e cristiana a confronto, Pisa, ETS, 2022, cycle «Patrimonio Musicale»; Alexandre Cerveux (Oxford University) conference Enchanted Nature: Singing Trees in Medieval Jewish and Christians Texts and musical performance Divine Nature and Heavenly Splendour in Medieval Songs. Co-organiztion with Donatella Restani, Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna University “Alma Mater Studiorum”, campus Ravenna
20.05.2022 «Testimonianze ebraiche tra le carte d’archivio», presentation of the volume Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Reused as Book-bindings in Italy, with Mauro Perani and Saverio Campanini, Archivio di Stato di Modena.
25.02.2022 «Tra Dante e gli estensi. Libri ebraici in frammenti: un primato modenese», con R. Tonnarelli, seminar Fra le pagine dei libri: Gli ebrei, gli Este e Dante, Archivio di Stato di Modena.
08.03.2018 «Le corps recréé, la légende du Golem dans la tradition mystique juive», atelier, Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (mahJ), Paris.
19.11.2017 «Atelier d’analyse de textes de la mystique juive», Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme (mahJ), Paris.
C 2 Exhibitions and Guided tours
17.09.2021 – 25.03.2022 Exhibition « Libertà va cercando, ch’è sì cara” Frammenti di cultura medievale dal tempo di Dante », Mostra documentaria set up by Emma Abate, Loredana Chines, Patrizia Cremonini, Rosamaria Isabella Laruccia, Maddalena Modesti, Miles Nerini, Cristina Solidoro, Roberta Tonnarelli, Paola Vecchi Galli, Coordinated by Miles Nerini, Archivio di Stato di Modena
19.06.2016 Guided Tours: « Les stèles médiévales du mahJ : paléographie et histoire », with Mathias Dreyfuss, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Journée nationale de l’archéologie, Paris
05.03-28.06.2015 9 guided tours at the exhibitio « Magie. Anges et démons dans la tradition juive » Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Paris
Languages
• Italian: native speaker
• French: reading, speaking and writing
• English: reading, speaking and writing
• Spanish: reading, speaking
• Modern Hebrew: reading, speaking
• Others Languages: Aramaic, Classic Greek, Ancient and Medieval Hebrew, Latin, Syriac
