Ursula Ragacs

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Ursula Ragacs (* 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian Judaist.

Life

After several years in the private sector, she studied Jewish and Hispanic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna . After graduating in 1992 with a master's degree in philosophy, she was a university assistant from 1992. After gaining a doctorate in philosophy in 1995 and her habilitation in 2000, she became an associate professor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna from 2000 .

Her research interests are Judeo-Christian / Christian-Jewish polemics in the Middle Ages, history of the Jews in Spain and France in the Middle Ages, manuscripts and their edition. Jewish History and Its Historiography and Digital Judaica.

Fonts (selection)

  • “One must tame her impetuosity with bridle and reins” Ps 32,9. A contribution to Christian Hebrew studies and anti-Jewish polemics in the Middle Ages . Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-631-31916-9 .
  • The second Talmudic disputation in Paris in 1269 . Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-631-36673-6 .
  • as editor with Marianne Grohmann : translate religion. Translation and text reception as transformation phenomena of religion . Göttingen 2012, ISBN 3-8471-0036-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Ragacs, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna