Lunch Seminar: Ahuva Liberles, "It Takes a Village: Constructing Jewish Heritage in Medieval Germany"

Please join us for a Jewish Studies lunch seminar with Ahuva Liberles about her new book project about Benjamin Katz's fifteenth-century personal notebook from Regensburg.

Dr. Ahuva Liberles is a faculty member in the Jewish History department at Tel Aviv University and Head of the History track in the university's Teacher Training program. She researches the lives of medieval German-speaking Jews. Ahuva received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2020, for which she was awarded the Werblowsky Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis in Religious Studies. From 2021-2023, she was a Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Medieval Jewish History at Yale University and a Kreitman Postdoctoral Associate at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in 2020. In 2018-2019, she spent a year at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and in 2024, she returned as a visiting professor. Ahuva has published on Sefer Hasidim, medieval travel, adolescence, religious conversion, and history teaching. Her first book, Believing and Belonging: Jews Facing Conversion in Late Medieval German Lands, is under review, and she is currently working on a new book project: Bridging Traditions: The Notebook of Benjamin Katz of Regensburg and Late Medieval Jewish Law in the Making.