Katrin Kogman-Appel

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Katrin Kogman-Appel (born August 10, 1958 in Vienna ) is a Judaist , mediaevalist and art historian .

Kogman-Appel received his PhD in Jewish art history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993 . She had previously studied Jewish Studies and History at the University of Vienna, where she was assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies from 1982/83. She taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Junior Lecturer 1985 to 1993) and at the University of Pittsburgh (1995/96) as well as at the Universidad Hebraica in Mexico before becoming a lecturer at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1996 . In 2005 she became Associate Professor and in 2011 she was given a full professorship and held the Evelyn Metz Memorial Research Professorship . In 2015 she took up a Humboldt Professorship at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

It deals with Jewish cultural and art history of the Middle Ages and what Jewish book illumination says about the religious and cultural life of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Among other things, she wrote a monograph on the Machsor Lipsiae .

She is on the editorial board of Ars Judaica, was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2015 and was Herodoto's Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ in 1993/94 . She is a member of the Medieval Academy of America and the European Association of Jewish Studies , among others .

Fonts (selection)

  • A Mahzor from Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community, Harvard University Press 2012.
  • with Star of David: The Washington Haggadah. A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript from the Library of Congress, Harvard University Press, 2011
  • Illuminated Haggadot From Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday, Pennsylvania State University Press 2006.
  • Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Spain. Leiden: Brill 2004
  • The Second Nuremberg and the Jehuda Haggada: Jewish Artists Between Tradition and Progress. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAS. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kogman-Appel, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna