Initially trained in Hebrew/Aramaic grammar and rabbinic literature, I earned a bi-nationally supervised PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris and Goethe University, Frankfurt working on the medieval fluid text corpus of Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh from the Cairo Genizah. While writing my PhD thesis, I was simultaneously employed as a Research Associate at the Seminar for Jewish studies in Frankfurt where I taught Hebrew and Aramaic grammar, rabbinic literature as well as Jewish medieval history to undergraduate and graduate levels. Having been initiated into manuscripts early on during my studies, pursuing this interest finally led me to Paris, consequently my research interests mainly revolve around manuscript studies, book history, social history and research methodologies, as well as theory formation. My current post-doc project‚ ‘Medieval Jewish Literacy Beyond the Elite: Popular Ethical Books From the Cairo Genizah‘ deals with medieval popular ethical texts, which I am using as a lens to investigate the question of medieval Jewish urban literacy through the application of methods known from Sociology.
Anna.Busa@lmu.de
Areas of Interest
Manuscript studies, Book history, Social history, Medieval midrash, Hebrew and Aramaic grammar
Historical Periods of Interest
Early medieval period (9th to 12th)
Positions
2022
Research Associate (Principal Investigator), subproject “Medieval Jewish Literacy Beyond the Elite: Popular Ethical Books From the Cairo Genizah” in the BMBF project “Jenseits von Konflikt und Koexistenz: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte der jüdisch-arabischen Beziehungen”, Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich
2015 – 2022
Education
2014 – 2021
PhD (Cotutelle) in Jewish Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
2008 – 2014
MA in Jewish Studies and Political Science, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien/Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
