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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Matthias B. Lehmann

Matthias B. Lehmann

  • Associate Professor, Department of History
  • Associate Professor, Robert and Sandra S, Borns Jewish Studies Program
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

  • Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin, 2002

Research Interests

  • Early modern and modern Jewish history
  • Sephardic studies

Contact Information

mlehmann@indiana.edu
Ballantine Hall 836
(812) 855-4250

Courses Recently Taught

  • Introduction to Jewish History
  • The Jews of Islam
  • Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean

Publication Highlights

  • Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
  • A Livornese ‘Port Jew’ and the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire.” Jewish Social Studies 11, no. 2 (2005): 51-76.
  • Representations and Transformation of Knowledge in Judeo-Spanish Ethical Literature: The Case of Eli’ezer and Judah Papo’s ‘Pele Yo’ets’”, in Klaus Hermann et al., eds., Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines, (Leiden: Brill, 2003), pp. 299-324.
  • “The Intended Reader of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Judeo-Spanish Reading Culture.” Jewish History 16 (2002): 283-307.
  • “Islamic Legal Consultation and the Muslim-Jewish ‘Convivencia’.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 6 (1999): 25-54.
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