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URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/medieval-jewish-community-of-cologne-
 history-memory-archaelogy-hosted-by-howard-schickler/
SUMMARY:Medieval Jewish Community of Cologne: History\, Memory\, Archaelogy
  - hosted by Howard Schickler
DESCRIPTION:via Zoom\, log onto our secure webpage for the link\nProfessor 
 Ephraim Shoham-Steiner opened up the unique aspects of a medieval Jewish c
 ommunity and its people based on a variety of archeological as well as lit
 erary sources. Over the past century\, and particularly in recent years\, 
 archeological projects have yielded a treasure trove of material artifacts
  that yield rich new insights into the Jewish community in the German city
  of Cologne. By incorporating the material finds of archaeologists into hi
 s scholarship\, Professor Shoham-Steiner methodologically extends the work
  of the late Professor Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi\, who grappled with the comp
 lexities of the relationship between history\, historiography\, and memory
 . In one of his most memorable contributions to this discussion\, his brie
 f book Zakhor (1982)\, Yerushalmi argued that the primary pre-modern Jewis
 h vessels for memory of the past were liturgical and ritual. It was only f
 rom the sixteenth century that history writing\, he argued\, began playing
  a more significant role in remembering the Jewish past. One of the media 
 that Yerushalmi passed over in his analysis was the role of archeology and
  the emergence of Jewish material artifacts from the past\, especially dur
 ing the twentieth century. In this lecture Professor Shoham Steiner addres
 ses that lacuna with fascinating examples from medieval Cologne that make 
 its medieval Jews spring to life.\n\nProf. Ephraim (Effie) Shoham-Steiner\
 , is a historian specializing in Medieval Jewish History and an associate 
 professor at the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of 
 the Negev in Be’er-Shevah Israel (BGU). From 2018-2021 he served as dire
 ctor of The Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encount
 ers (CSOC) at BGU. In 2021-2 he is a research fellow at the New-York Publi
 c Library and the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University.\n\nHis 
 research focuses on the social aspects of Jewish history with a special in
 terest in social information that can be extracted from rabbinic source ma
 terial from medieval Western Europe\, the real and imagined “margins of 
 society”.
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