Exploring Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Near East
After the English team had visited the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures in November 2025 as part of the strategic partnership between the University of Cambridge and LMU to learn more about Arabic papyri from Geoffrey Khan, it was time for … Continued
On 17 September 2026, the Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Munich hosted a reading and discussion with the Iranian-American writer, poet and journalist ROYA HAKAKIAN. The evening was opened by Sapir von Abel, … Continued
1. Background Moritz Steinschneider is regarded as one of the most important historians of Jewish literature.His pioneering scholarship made a vast number of previously little-known or inaccessible textsavailable to the scholarly world, and many of his works remain indispensable reference … Continued
Congratulations to our Munich Research Centre member Dr. Sophia Dege-Müller on receiving an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council! Sophia, an expert on Ethiopian manuscript cultures, has been awarded €2.5 million for a five-year research project dedicated to … Continued
Congratulations to our Volkswagen Momentum Senior Fellow Dr. Avner Ofrath on his appointment as Visiting Professor of Transregional Jewish Cultures and Languages in the MENA Region and the Global Diaspora at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) … Continued
Munich Research Centre member Sophia Dege-Müller and her colleague Jonas Karlsson have published the article “The Ethiopic Version of the Introduction to the Psalms by Eusebius of Caesarea (CAe 6719): Preliminary Remarks on Its Manuscript Transmission and Vorlage” in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / … Continued
Call for Proposals The Volkswagen Momentum Fellowship Programme “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies” invites applications from scholars whose research focuses on Judaism and Jewish communities across the Middle East, the wider Middle East and North Africa from … Continued
Beginning in spring 2025, this Volkswagen Momentum fellowship program invites applications from junior and senior scholars engaged in research on Judaism and the Jewish communities of the Near and Middle East from the early modern to modern periods.
