Emma Abate

Emma Abate is Associate Professor of Hebrew and History of Judaism, Jewish Culture, and History of the Hebrew Book. Her research focuses on the study of the Hebrew manuscript tradition, with particular attention to Kabbalah and magic. She is the Principal Investigator of the project BiNaH: Bibliothèque nationale "Hebraica", Hebrew Manuscripts in Paris funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) and based at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS) in Paris. She coordinates the Laboratory of Hebrew Epigraphy and Codicology (LECE) and the European project Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries, aimed at identifying and cataloguing reused manuscript fragments. She is co-editor of the journal Materia Giudica (Giuntina). Among her recent publications, “La visione degli arredi del santuario” (in Counting the Miracles, eds. S. Greco and J. Olszowy-Schlanger, 2025), “Hebrew Fragments and Kabbalistic Diagrams in Urbino State Archive” (in Habent sua Fata Fragmenta, eds. E. Abate, S. Campanini, J. Olszowy-Schlanger and G. Veltri, 2025).