Giuseppe Veltri

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Giuseppe Veltri (born January 4, 1958 in San Giovanni in Fiore , Calabria , Italy ) is an Italian Judaist who teaches in Germany. From 1997 to 2014 he was professor for Jewish studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He has been Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg since 2014 and Director of the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies and Director of the Academy of World Religions in Hamburg since 2017.

Life

Giuseppe Veltri was born in San Giovanni in Fiore , Calabria , Italy. From 1978 to 1983 he studied philosophy and theology in Siena and Viterbo . After graduating from the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome, he studied Biblical Studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (PIB) from 1983 to 1986 . His mentor in Rome was the Targum expert Roger Le Déaut .

In 1988 Giuseppe Veltri went to the Free University of Berlin , where he studied with Peter Schäfer , an internationally renowned Judaist and expert in comparative religion , and the religious historian and theologian Carsten Colpe .

From 1990 to 1996 Giuseppe Veltri worked in the research project Magical Texts of the Cairo Geniza and Greco-Roman Religion of Palestine , headed by Peter Schäfer and funded by the DFG . His doctorate, submitted in 1991, deals with translation concepts in Jewish-Hellinist and rabbinical contexts.

In 1996, Giuseppe Veltri also completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the relationship between magic, law and science. The work is cited to this day as an important study.

In 1997 he was offered a chair for Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 2013 he accepted an offer to the Chair of Jewish Religion and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg . Since 2017 he has also been director of the Academy of World Religions (AWR) in Hamburg. One of the aims of the academy is to promote interreligious dialogue between Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Alevism.

Teaching and Research

In the 1990s and beyond, Giuseppe Veltri made an outstanding contribution to the development and expansion of Jewish Studies in the new federal states . Thanks to his efforts, Jewish Studies established itself in Germany as an academic discipline and recognized academic subject with its own distinctive profile. Since his appointment as professor at the University of Halle, the seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies located there has developed from a one-man company into an efficient teaching and research facility.

In 1998, Giuseppe Veltri founded the Leopold Zunz Center for research into European Jewry at the Leucorea Foundation of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He took over the publication of the European Association for Jewish Studies newsletter ( EAJS Newsletter ) and developed it into the scientific and peer-reviewed European Journal of Jewish Studies , which is published by Brill and financially supported by the Rothschild Foundation. The magazine is listed by the Thomson Reuters Indices as an ISI journal . In addition, in 2001 Giuseppe Veltri founded the academic publication series Studies in Jewish Culture and History , also published by Brill , in which 54 volumes have appeared to date.

From 2004 to 2012, Giuseppe Veltri was an elected member of Review Board 106 of the German Research Foundation. From 2009 to 2019 he was chairman of the Association of Judaists in Germany .

research

Giuseppe Veltri's research interests include: the religion of ancient Judaism, philosophy of the Middle Ages , culture and philosophy of the Renaissance and early modern times, and the science of Judaism . He is the leader of international research projects dealing with these topics and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Both his doctorate on Jewish-Hellinist and rabbinical translation concepts and his habilitation on magic and halacha are considered fundamental works in the study of ancient Judaism. The former was named as the standard work on the subject by the renowned Israeli researcher Emanuel Tov , while the latter was highly praised by Hans-Dieter Betz , an expert in the study of magic. Giuseppe Veltri deepened and expanded his research in these areas through his research project Midrash Tehillim (edition of the rabbinical interpretation midrash on the Psalms ) and the project Linguistic Conventions , which explores the relationship between biblical and rabbinical concepts of language and the terminology of medieval Jewish grammarians.

In cooperation with researchers from Israel , France and the Netherlands , Giuseppe Veltri realized the long-term project PESHAT (“Philosophic and Scientific Hebrew Terminology”). The project aims at the systematic research into philosophical and scientific Hebrew terminology of the premodern , its origin and development in a cultural and historical context. As a result, u. a. an extensive multilingual thesaurus that is already accessible online via the project homepage. This database sees itself as an upgrade and supplement to its printed predecessor, the Thesaurus philosophicus linguae hebraicae et veteris et recentioris by Jakob Klatzkin , which was published in Berlin in five volumes from 1928 to 1933 .

Giuseppe Veltri devotes a large part of his research to exploring the philosophy of the Renaissance . In addition to numerous conferences and symposia on the intellectual life of the Jews in the early modern period , this resulted in the translations and editions of the philosophical sermons of Judah Moscato , as well as the edition of Simone Luzzatto's writings .

The name Leopold Zunz is closely linked to research into the science of Judaism . He was not only its founder, but also a doctoral student in Halle . Giuseppe Veltri founded the Zunz Center and created the Zunz Archive , which is now in Jerusalem, by cataloging and digitizing the entire holdings of over 30,000 fols. open to the public.

Giuseppe Veltri has been Director of the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies (MCAS) since 2015. The DFG-Kolleg research group is dedicated to researching skepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation of a purely philosophical tradition and a more general expression of skeptical strategies, concepts and attitudes in the cultural field. The work of the research center is based on the assumption that skepticism is an essential aspect of the processes and categorizations within Jewish philosophy, religion, literature and society - and that in constant exchange with neighboring cultures. Giuseppe Veltri understands skepticism as the investigation of the "eternal student" who has doubts about various dimensions and systems of worldly or revealed knowledge and who questions authority as such. In his view, skepticism is not an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but an attitude that forms a basis for numerous and varied phenomena. Hence, the skepticism relates to fundamental processes and categorizations in Jewish philosophy, religion, literature and society. Specifically, he applies the term skepticism to expressions of social deviation and agreement with political structures and systems of government when they react to and are in contact with neighboring cultures. From his skepticism research, Giuseppe Veltri developed a concept of tolerance , the research of which is now a focus of his work.

Visiting professorships and awards

Giuseppe Veltri was visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin , University College London , University of Bologna , University of La Sapienza and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . In recognition of his achievements, he was appointed honorary professor for religious studies at the University of Leipzig in 2010. In November of the same year, as head of the seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies at the University of Halle, he received the Emil Fackenheim Prize for Tolerance and Understanding awarded by the Halle Jewish Community . For the first time, the award went to a scientific institution. In 2014 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz.

Publications (selection)

  • Discourse on the State of the Jews and in particular those dwelling in the illustrious city of Venice (1638), Simone Luzzatto, bilingual edition, edited, translated and commented together with Anna Lissa (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019), ISBN 978 -3-11-048733-6 .
  • Socrates or on Human Knowledge. The Serious-Playful Exercise of Simone Luzzatto, Venetian Jews (1651) , bilingual edition, edited, translated and commented with Michela Torbidoni (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2018 or 2019).
  • Alienated Wisdom. Inquiry into Jewish Philosophy and Skepticism (Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2018), ISBN 978-3-11-060449-8 .
  • Sapienza Alienata. La Filosofia ebraica tra mito, storia e scetticismo (Rome: Aracne, 2017), ISBN 978-88-255-0428-6 .
  • Yearbook of the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies, together with Bill Riebiger (Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), ISBN 978-3-11-050172-8 .
  • Oltre le mura del ghetto. Accademie, scetticismo e tolleranza nella Venezia barocca. Studi e documenti d'archivio, together with Evelien Chayes (Palermo: New Digital Frontiers, 2016), ISBN 978-88-99487-48-5 .
  • Filosofo e rabbino nella Venezia del Seicento. Studi su Simone Luzzatto con documenti inediti dall'Archivio di Stato di Venezia (Rome: Aracne, 2015), ISBN 978-88-548-8423-6 .
  • A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics. Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism (Studia Judaica, Volume 82) (Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), ISBN 978-3-11-036641-9 .
  • Simone Luzzatto. Scritti politici e filosofici di un ebreo scettico nella Venezia del Seicento , introduced, commented on and edited in cooperation with Anna Lissa & Paola Ferruta (Milan: Bompiani, 2013), ISBN 978-88-452-7295-0 .
  • Language of Conformity and Dissent: On the Imaginative Grammar of Jewish Intellectuals in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Academic Studies Press 2013), ISBN 978-1-61811-238-5 .
  • Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto, Rabbino e Filosofo nella Venezia del Seicento, in cooperation with Paola Ferruta and Anna Lissa (Milan: Bompiani, 2013), ISBN 978-88-452-7295-0 .
  • Judah Moscato’s sermons. Volume One , Volume Two , Volume Three , Volume Four, together with Gianfranco Miletto and Jehuda Halper (Leiden: Brill 2011-2015), ISBN 978-90-04-17900-4 , ISBN 978-90-04-21932-8 , and ISBN 978-90-04-26119-8
  • Envisioning Judaism. Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, 2 vols., Together with Ra'anan Boustan, Klaus Hermann, Reimund Leicht, Annette Yoshiko Reed and in cooperation with Alex Ramos (Tübingen: Mohr 2013).
  • Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries , together with Gianfranco Miletto (Leiden: Brill 2012), ISBN 978-90-04-22225-0 .
  • Language awareness and language concepts in the Old Orient, Old Testament and rabbinical Judaism , together with Johannes Thon and Ernst-Joachim Waschke (Halle: ZIRS 2012), ISSN  1617-2469 .
  • Studies in the History of Culture and Science. A Tribute to Gad Freudenthal , together with Resianne Fontaine, Ruth Glasner and Reimund Leicht (Boston, Leiden: Brill 2011), ISBN 978-90-04-19123-5 .
  • Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb: Jewish Thought and Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity (Leiden: Brill 2009), ISBN 978-90-04-17196-1 .
  • The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period , together with Maria Diemling (Leiden: Brill 2009), ISBN 978-90-04-16718-6
  • Libraries, Translations, and ‛Canonic 'Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: Brill 2006), ISBN 90-04-14993-7
  • Catholicism and Judaism. Similarities and faults from the 16th to the 20th century , together with Florian Schuller and Hubert Wolf (Regensburg: Pustet 2005), ISBN 3-7917-1955-6 .
  • God's language in the philological workshop. Hebrew Studies from the 15th to the 19th Century , together with Gerold Necker (Leiden: Brill 2004), ISBN 90-04-14312-2 .
  • Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy , together with David Ruderman (Philadelphia: Univ. Of Pennsylvania Press 2004), ISBN 0-8122-3779-X .
  • Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines: Papers in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday , together with Klaus Herrmann and Margarete Schlüter (Leiden: Brill 2003), ISBN 90-04-13565-0 .
  • On the threshold of modernity. Jews in the Renaissance , together with Annette Winkelmann (Leiden: Brill 2003), ISBN 90-04-12979-0 .
  • Presence of tradition. Studies on Jewish literature and cultural history (Leiden: Brill 2002), ISBN 90-04-11686-9 .
  • Friedrich August Wolf. Studies, texts, bibliography , together with Reinhard Markner (Stuttgart: Steiner 1999), ISBN 3-515-07637-9 .
  • Magic and halakha. Approaches to an empirical concept of science in late antique and early medieval Judaism (Tübingen: Mohr 1997), ISBN 3-16-146671-3 .
  • A Torah for King Talmai. Studies on the understanding of translation in Jewish-Hellenistic and rabbinical literature (Tübingen: Mohr 1994), ISBN 3-16-145998-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Torah for King Talmai. Studies on the understanding of translation in Jewish-Hellenistic and rabbinical literature, texts and studies on ancient Judaism 41 (Tübingen: Mohr 1994).
  2. ↑ Magic and Halakha. Approaches to an empirical concept of science in late antique and early medieval Judaism, texts and studies on ancient Judaism 62 (Tübingen: Mohr 1997).
  3. ↑ See Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 25, 2011, No. 121, p. N3, "Passwords," by Lorenz Jäger.
  4. ↑ Research and Teaching 2 (2014), p. 134 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 18, 2014.
  5. ^ The Seminar for Jewish Studies / Jewish Studies. Retrieved April 1, 2014 .
  6. ↑ www.brill.nl/ejjs .
  7. ↑ www.brill.nl/sjhc .
  8. ^ German Association of Jewish Studies. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ GEPRIS data set of the DFG Bonn , accessed on November 19, 2013.
  10. ↑ www.sprachauffassungen.de
  11. ↑ peshat.org .
  12. ^ Judah Moscato's Sermons. Volume One, Volume Two, Volume Three , together with Gianfranco Miletto and Jehuda Halper (Leiden: Brill 2011-2013), ISBN 978-90-04-17900-4 , ISBN 978-90-04-21932-8 , and ISBN 978 -90-04-26119-8 .
  13. ↑ Scritti politici e filosofici di Simone Luzzatto, Rabbino e Filosofo nella Venezia del Seicento , in cooperation with Paola Ferruta & Anna Lissa (Milan: Bompiani 2013), ISBN 978-88-452-7295-0 ; Scritti politico-filosofici di un ebreo scettico nella Venezia del Seicento (Milan: Bompiani 2013), ISBN 88-452-7295-8 .
  14. ↑ www.jewish-archives.org .
  15. ↑ Press release of the University of Halle from November 16, 2010, accessed on February 26, 2013.
  16. ↑ member entry of Giuseppe Veltri at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on 11.06.17
personal data
SURNAME Veltri, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH San Giovanni in Fiore , Calabria , Italy