Institut für Judaistik

Curriculum Vitae

 2018- Assistentin und Habilitandin am Institut für Judaistik an der Uni Bern
 2016-2018 Senior research associate (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London)
 2008-2016 Research associate (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London)
 2007 Ph.D. in Wissenschaftsgeschichte  (Tel Aviv University & Université Paris Diderot)
 2000-2002    Sprachwissenschaftlerin (Comverse, High-Tech, Tel Aviv)
 1998 M.Sc. in Mathematik (Tel Aviv University)
 1997 M.A. in Sprachwissenschaft (Tel Aviv University)
 1996-2004 Dozentin in Mathematik für B.A., B.Sc., M.A. und MBA Studenten (Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem & The Open University in Israel)
 1995 B.Sc. in Mathematik (Tel Aviv University)
 19.06.1970 Geboren in Tel Aviv, Israel  

Arbeits-und Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Hebräische Wissenschaft im Mittelalter (vor allem Mathematik und der jüdische Kalender)
  • Jüdische intellektuelle und kulturelle Geschichte im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit
  • Hebräische Handschriften aus dem Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit
  • Wissenschaftliche Terminologie

Publikationen

Monographien

  • The Epistle of the Number by Ibn al-Aḥdab; the transmission of Arabic mathematics to Hebrew circles in medieval Sicily, in the series Perspectives on Society and Culture, (Gorgias Press, 2015).
  • Jacob bar Samson’s Treatise on the Jewish Calendar from Twelfth-Century Northern France, in the series ‘Time, Astronomy, and Calendars’, Eds. Charles Burnett and Sacha Stern (Brill, in Vorbereitung).
  • (Mit Israel Sandman) Abraham bar Ḥayya’s Book on the Jewish Calendar (Sefer ha-‘Ibbur), in the series ‘Time, Astronomy, and Calendars’, Eds. Charles Burnett and Sacha Stern (Brill, in Vorbereitung).
  • (Mit Israel Sandman) Isaac Israeli’s Yesod Olam (Foundation of the World), Book 1, in the series ‘Time, Astronomy, and Calendars’, Eds. Charles Burnett and Sacha Stern (Brill, in Vorbereitung).

Artikel in Zeitschriften und Sammelbänden

  • ‘The Hebrew mathematical language in treatises on the Jewish calendar in the Middle Ages’ in Studies in Language, Eds. Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Doron Yaakov (The Academy of the Hebrew Language, in Hebrew, forthcoming).
  • ‘Mudéjar decorations within calendrical, geographical, and mathematical tables and diagrams in a fifteenth-century Sephardic manuscript of Isaac Israeli’s Yesod Olam from the British Library (Add. 15977)’, in Sephardic Book Art of the fifteenth-century, Eds. Luís Urbano Afonso, Tiago Moita (Harvey Miller/Brepols, zu erscheinen in 2018).
  • ‘La trasmissione italiana dello Yesod ‘Olam (1309/10 e.v.) di Isaac Ha-Israeli’, in Materia giudaica XXIII, Ed. Mauro Perani (Florence: Giuntina, zu erscheinen in 2018).
  • (Mit Wagner, R., Aradi, N., Baraness, A., Garber, D., Segev, S., & Simonson, S.) in ‘Mathematics in Hebrew’ in Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa, Eds. V. J. Katz, M. Folkerts, B. Hughes, R. Wagner, J. L. Berggren, pp. 224-380, (Princeton University Press, 2016).
  • ‘The Naissance of the Medieval Hebrew Mathematical Language as Manifest in Ibn al-Aḥdab’s Iggeret ha-Mispar’, in A Universal Art: Hebrew grammar across disciplines and faiths, Eds. Nadia Vidro, Irene Zwiep, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, pp. 117-131, (Brill, 2014).
  • ‘The Persian Zoroastrian Calendar in a Medieval Hebrew Treatise on The Jewish Calendar by Abraham bar Ḥiyya’, in Tarikh-e Elm (History of Science), 10 (1), University of Tehran (2013), pp. 31-53.
  • ‘The Hebrew calendrical bookshelf of the early 12th century: the cases of Abraham Bar Ḥiyya and Jacob Bar Samson’, in Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition, Eds. C. Burnett and S. Stern, pp. 97-111 (Leiden: Brill, 2013).
  • ‘The Epistle of the Number: The Diffusion of Arabic Mathematics in Medieval Europe’, in Circolazione Dei Saperi Nel Mediterraneo: Filosofia E Scienze (Secoli IX-XVII), Circulation des Savoirs Autour de la Méditerranée: Philosophie Et Sciences (IXe-XVIIe Siècle): Atti Del VII Colloquio Internazionale Della Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences Et de la Philosophie Arabes Et Islamiques: Firenze, 16-28 Febbraio 2006, Eds. Graziella Federici-Vescovini and Ahmad Hasnaoui, pp. 101-110 (Edizioni Cadmo, 2013).
  • ‘The discovery of a fragment of Isaac ha-Israeli's Yesod Olam in the Cairo Genizah’, in Zutot: Perspective on Jewish Culture 9 (2012), pp. 51-58.
  • ‘The Epistle of the Number: An Episode of Algebra in Hebrew’, in Zutot: Perspective on Jewish Culture 5 (2008), pp. 95-101.
  • ‘Iggeret ha-Mispar by Isaac ben Solomon Ibn al-Aḥdab (Sicily, 14th century) (Part I: The Author)’, in Judaica 64 (2008), Issue 1, pp. 18-36.
  • ‘Iggeret ha-Mispar by Isaac ben Solomon Ibn al-Aḥdab (Sicily, 14th century) (Part II: The Text)’, in Judaica 64 (2008), Issue 2, pp. 149-161.
  • (Mit David Levin) ‘Convexity-preserving Interpolation by Dual Subdivisions Schemes’, Saint Malo Proceedings XXX, 2000, pp. 1-10.

Einträge in Enzyklopädien

  • ‘Mathematical Terminology (medieval and modern)’ in Encyclopaedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013).
  • ‘Mathematics in Judaism’, in Encyclopaedia of Sciences & Religions (Springer, 2013).

Rezensionen

  • Shlomo Sela, Abraham Ibn Ezra on Nativities and Continuous Horoscopy: A parallel Hebrew-English Critical Edition of the Book of Nativities and the Book of Revolution, in Journal for the History of Astronomy 46/1, pp. 106-108 (2015).
  • Elisheva Carlebach, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, in Zion 77, Volume 3, (2012), pp. 411-414 (auf Hebräisch).