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Susan Einbinder
Dr. Einbinder is Professor of Hebrew Literature at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her current research focuses on the study of Jewish literature from Provence around the time of the expulsion of the French Jews in 1306. A 2004 recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed her to pursue research for future publications, Dr. Einbinder also received a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Historical Studies, as well as a grant from the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. At the College-Institute, she teaches both medieval and modern Hebrew Literature. Dr. Einbinder is a noted lecturer and author of many books and publications.
Member of the editorial board, History Compass: www.history-compass.com
Education
- Ordained, HUC-JIR (1983)
- Ph.D., Columbia University (1991)
Publications
- "On the Borders of Exile: The Poetry of Solomon Simhah of Troyes," in Teodolinda Barolini, ed., Medieval Constructions in
Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante (Tempe, Arizona, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
2005), 69-86.
- "Martyrs in the Rhineland: Rabbi Eliezer b. Nathan (Raban)", O God, Insolent Men, in Barbara H. Rosenwein,
Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2006), 286-89.
- "Peretz Trabot: A Hebrew Poet, the Expulsion of 1394, and Memory in Exile." International Medieval Congress at Western
Michigan University, 4-7 May 2006, Kalamazoo.
- "Refrains in Exile: Jewish Poetry from northern Italy." Northwestern University, Chicago. March 2006. (lecture)
- Forthcoming, "The Jewish Martyrs of Grenoble: Martyrdom and Biography," Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
(Arizona State University).
- "A Proper Diet: Medicine and History in Crescas Caylar's Esther (1327)," Speculum 80.2 (2005): 437-63.
- "Hebrew Poems for 'the Day of Shutting In': Problems and Methods." Revue des Etudes Juives. 163/1-2 (Jan-Jun 2004):
111-35.
- Translation, with Kamal Boullata and Mirene Ghossein, If Only the Sea Could Sleep: Love Poems by Adonis (Kobenhavn & Los
Angeles: Green Integer, 2003).
- Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).
- "Signs of Romance: Hebrew Prose in the Twelfth Century Renaissance," in Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe,
eds. Michael A. Signer and John van Engen (Notre Dame University, University of Notre Dame, 2000), 221-34.
- Trial by Fire: Burning Jewish Books. Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University, Occassional Papers, III
(Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2000).
- "Meir of Norwich: Persecution and Poetry Among Medieval English Jews," Journal of Medieval History 26.2 (2000):
145-63.
- "Jewish Women Martyrs: Changing Representations," Exemplaria 12.1 (2000): 105-128.
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