Research Seminar on 

Friday, February 7, 12:15pm in Room 162, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

  Testing Boundaries: Jewish Conversion and Iberian Exceptionalism, 1200-1391

 

Dr. Paola Tartakoff

Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies
Rutgers University 

Paola Tartakoff is a social and cultural historian whose work primarily explores Jewish-Christian relations in Iberia, with a focus on religious conversion and the inquisitorial prosecution of Jews and converts. She is the author of Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (U Penn Press).

This seminar is part of a series sponsored by UConn Vice President for Research, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, Departments of English, History, Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and Philosophy, the Programs in Medieval Studies and Middle East Studies, and the Konover Chair of Judaic Studies

Open to graduate students and faculty and there will be pre-circulated readings.

Please contact judaicstudies@uconn.edu to  RSVP and to receive these materials.

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