Elisabeth Hollender

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Elisabeth Hollender (* 1965 in Mönchengladbach ) is Professor of Jewish Studies at the Department of Jewish Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Her main focus is on medieval Jewish cultural and religious history , medieval Hebrew literature with a special focus on poetry and commentary literature, and intra-Jewish cultural transfer. She has been President of the European Association of Jewish Studies since 2018 .

Career

Born in Mönchengladbach in 1965, Hollender studied Jewish studies, Semitic and English / linguistics at the University of Cologne from 1985 to 1989 . From 1992 as a research assistant at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies, she did her doctorate in Cologne in 1993 with a thesis on the synagogal hymns of Simon Ben Isaak in the Amsterdam Machsor prayer book ; afterwards she remained at the institute as a research assistant until 1997.

In the following years she dealt primarily with Hebrew liturgical poetry ( pijjut ) and its commentaries in the Middle Ages. Her research was funded by two fellowships at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the University of Pennsylvania , as well as a 1998/1999 Lise Meitner grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and a Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation at the University of Düsseldorf , the latter in the Years 2002 to 2008. Her work on this topic resulted in several publications, including her habilitation thesis 2001/2002 in Duisburg , Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz (2008) and numerous other articles. In 2001 she received the teaching license for Jewish Studies .

Hollender had already held teaching positions in Bonn ( Catholic theology ) and Duisburg (Jewish studies and applied communication and media studies) and was visiting professor for Jewish studies at the University of Graz from 2002 to 2003 , when she was professor for the religion of Judaism in 2009 Past and Present was appointed to the Ruhr University Bochum , where she researched and taught until 2011.

Since 2011 she has been Professor of Jewish Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. The work was interrupted in spring 2013 by a teaching fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hollender was Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Studies from 2016 to 2018 and is a member of the Senate at Goethe University from 2019 to 2021 . In addition, she chairs the Society for the Promotion of Judaic Studies in Frankfurt am Main and is a member of the academic advisory board of the Arye Maimon Institute for the History of the Jews at the University of Trier.

Publications (selection)

  • Qedushta'ot of Simon b. Isaac after the Amsterdam Mahsor. (Translation and commentary, also dissertation Cologne 1993) (=  Johann Maier [Hrsg.]: Judentum und Umwelt . Nr. 55 ). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-47670-3 .
  • Medieval Hebrew compilation literature using the example of Ashkenazi and French Pijjut commentaries . (Habilitation thesis). Duisburg 2002.
  • Clavis Commentariorum of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Manuscript (=  Clavis Commentariorum Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi . No. 4 ). Brill, Leiden 2005.
  • Liturgy and history. The Ashkenazi Machsor and Jewish Mobility in the Middle Ages - A Methodological Experiment (= Arye Maimon Institute for the History of the Jews [ed.]: Texts and Studies . No. 10 ). Klio Media, Trier 2015.
  • Piyyut Commentary in Medieval Ashkenaz (=  Studia Judaica . No. 42 ). de Gruyter, Berlin 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Alkier, Michael Schneider, Christian Wiese: Diversity - Difference - Dialogicity: Religion in Plural Contexts . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-053086-5 , p. 443 f .
  2. ^ EAJS Executive Committee. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Frankfurt: Hollender new President of the European Association of Jewish Studies. In: Metropolnews.info. July 24, 2018, accessed December 15, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c d People at RUB - newly appointed . In: RUBENS - News, reports and opinions from the Ruhr University Bochum . No. 134 . Bochum June 1, 2009, p. 6 ( PDF via rub.de ).
  5. ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Hollender: Medieval Hebrew Compilation Literature Using the Example of Ashkenazi and French Pijjut Commentaries . ( dnb.de [accessed December 15, 2019]).
  7. ↑ a b c Goethe University - Curriculum vitae | Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Hollender. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Elisabeth Hollender: piyyut commentary in medieval Ashkenaz . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020409-4 , p. xi-xii .
  9. ↑ DFG - GEPRIS - Hebrew liturgical poetry and its commentaries in the Middle Ages as an example of tradition transmission and change in the diaspora. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
  10. ^ Society for the Promotion of Judaic Studies (eV). Accessed December 15, 2019 (German).
  11. ^ Structure of the institute. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hollender, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach