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Our most recent and ongoing research projects include:Ìý

Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish (2019-2022) An AHRC funded project describing and analysingÌýthe grammatical and sociolinguistic features characteristic of the Yiddish used by Hasidic communities worldwide


Jewish Self-Government in Poland from its inception to the present — a critical and annotated source readerÌý(2009–2022)ÌýA project to identify, translate and comment on the most relevant and most significant sources pertaining to the history of Jewish self-government in Poland from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the contemporary world


Introducing Assyrian Medicine: Healthcare Fit for a King (2020-2023)ÌýThis is aÌýWellcome Funded Research ResourcesÌýAward at the British Museum and UCLÌýto publish online the cuneiformÌýNineveh Medical Encyclopaedia from the 7th century BCE Royal Library ofÌýAshurbanipal of Assyria. ÌýÌý


The whole world shall be our fatherland: Diasporas of the music industry and their Finnish connectionsÌý(2019–2022) is funded by theÌýKone Foundation.

Saadya Gaon’s Works on the Jewish Calendar: Near Eastern Sources and Transmission to the WestÌý(2021-2023)ÌýThis Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded project investigates Saadya Gaon’s literary production on the calendar


Qaraite and Rabbanite calendars: origins, interaction, and polemic (2018–2021) This Fritz Thyssen Foundation funded project investigates the origins of the Qaraite and fixed Rabbanite calendars and studies the calendar disagreement between Qaraites and RabbanitesÌý


Discourses on Body and Sexuality in Polish-Jewish Female Writing between 1890 and 1918 (2019-2021) A project to reflect on the broader cultural context in which Jewish women lived in the Polish landsÌýand how it impacted on perceptions of sexuality and the body. Funded by the National Science Centre of Poland.


Transformation of Jewish political culture: Intercession from the early modern period to the 19th centuryÌý(2002-2022) Ongoing work by François Guesnet looking at the history of intercession in the history of the European Jewish diaspora

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Archive of past research projectsÌý