עברית

Prof. Pinchas Roth

דוא"ל
pinchas.roth@biu.ac.il
משרד
Building 410 room 137
קורות חיים

Education

BA – 2005, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Talmud and General Studies (Law,                Medieval History and Latin)

          2005-2006 Graduate studies at Hebrew University, Talmud department

MA – 2007, Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University.         Medieval Jewish History

PhD - 2012, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Talmud and Halakhah. Dissertation: Later Provençal Sages – Jewish Law (Halakhah) and Rabbis in Southern France, 1215-1348. Advisor: Prof. Simcha Emanuel

Post-doctoral fellow – 2012-2013, New York University Law School – Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization

Post-doctoral fellow – 2013-2015, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought

 

Employment

Senior lecturer, Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University (2015-2020)

Associate professor (tenured), Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University (2021-)

Chair, Talmud Department, Bar-Ilan University (October 2021-September 2023)

 

Prizes and Fellowships

  1. Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers, Israel Council for Higher Education (2015-2018)
  2. Martin Buber Fellowship, Hebrew University (2015-2017) - declined
  3. Ephraim Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (2013)
  4. Post-doctoral fellowship, Goldstein-Goren Center for Jewish Thought, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (2013-2015)
  5. Finalist, Mandel Post-doctoral Fellowship (Scholion “Marathon”), Hebrew University (2013)
  6. Post-doctoral fellowship, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization, New York University Law School (2012-2013)
  7. Prize for doctoral students (co-winner), Chaire Paulette et Claude Kelman pour l'étude du judaïsme français, Hebrew University (2010)
  8. Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (2010-2011)
  9. President’s Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, Hebrew University (2008-2012)
  10. Graduate student research fellowship, Arthur Schneier Institute for International Affairs, Yeshiva University (Summer 2007)
  11. Graduate student fellowship, Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University (2006-2007)
  12. Graduate student fellowship, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University (2005)
  13. J. N. and Zipporah Epstein Memorial Prize, Talmud Department, Hebrew University (2004)
  14. Prize from Sir Isaac Wolfson Center for Talmudic Studies, Hebrew University (2003)

 

Academic conferences and sessions organized

  1. Les acteurs économiques juifs médiévaux face à la Halakha, EPHE, Paris, 16 November 2015 (with Juliette Sibon and Claude Denjean), poster at: https://www.academia.edu/12826017/Nouvelle_Gallia_judaica_-_Workshop_Jewish_Economic_Players_and_the_Halakha_in_the_Latin_West_12th-15th_Centuries_-_Paris_-_Novembre_2015
  2. Jewish Thought in Late Medieval Provence, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 19 November 2014 (with Prof. Daniel Lasker). Opening lecture at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOXrnWKwFmk
  3. ‘Medieval Minhag and Jewish Legal History’, Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8 July 2014
  4. ‘Talmud and Halakhah in Medieval Southern France’, session at World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 31 July 2013
  5. ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Halakhic Texts’, symposium at Bernard Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University, 16 April 2013 (organized with Rachel Furst, in collaboration with Yeshiva University), description at: http://blogs.yu.edu/revel/2013/05/13/symposium-on-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-halakhic-texts/
  6. ‘Medieval Halakhah in Cultural Context’, session at AJS Conference, 18 December 2012 (with Rachel Furst and Ethan Zadoff)
  7. ‘Halakhah as a Historical Source’, research workshop at the Hebrew University, 28 March 2011 (with Rachel Furst), poster at: http://limudbchevruta.wiki.huji.ac.il/index.php/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94:Halakhah_conference_poster_for_email.jpg

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מחקר
  • History of Halakhah
  • medieval rabbinic literature
  • Jewish history in medieval England
  • Jewish history in medieval Provence
פרסומים

articles

  1. ‘Meir ben Simeon ha-Meili on Protracted Pregnancy’, Zutot (forthcoming, 15 p.)
  2. 'דגים, מנהגים ופילוסופיה: פולמוס הלכתי בפרובאנס במאה הארבע-עשרה', פעמים (30 עמ')
  3.  ‘Asking Questions: Rabbis and Philosophers in Medieval Provence’, Journal of Jewish Studies (2016, forthcoming, 14 p.)
  4. 'ר' דוד בן שאול וביקורתו על הלכות יין נסך בדרום צרפת', תרביץ פג (תשע"ה), עמ' 439–463.
  5. ‘New Responsa by Isaac ben Peretz of Northampton’, Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 46 (2014): 1-17
  6. ‘Regional Boundaries and Medieval Halakhah: Rabbinic Responsa from Catalonia to Southern France in the 13th and 14th Centuries’, Jewish Quarterly Review 105 (2015): 72-98
  7. "יש לכם אב למקראו": הערה על פרשנות התלמוד הירושלמי בדרום צרפת בימי הביניים', סידרא כט (תשע"ה), עמ' 117-125
  8.  ‘New Light on Rabbi Reuben ben Hayyim’, Revue des études juives 173, 3-4 (2014): 371-380
  9.  ‘Legal Strategy and Legal Culture in Medieval Jewish Courts of Southern France’, AJS Review 38, 2(2014), pp. 375-393
  10. ‘Responsa from Heaven: Fragments of a New Manuscript of ‘She’elot u-Teshuvot min ha-Shamayim’ from Gerona’, Materia Guidaica 15-16 (2010-2011), pp. 555-564
  11.  'הסימן החסר בספר תרומת הדשן', עלי ספר כא (תש"ע), עמ' 179–181.
  12. ‘On Some Rabbinic Fragments from the “Italian Genizah” and from Gerona’, Materia Guidaica X/2 (2005), pp. 305-312
  13. 'שרידי שאילתות מרווינה', גנזי קדם א (תשס"ה), עמ' 245–271
  14. 'פירוש על מסכת קינים לאחד מבעלי התוספות (הר"ש משאנץ?)', נטועים ז (תש"ס), עמ' 9–44

Books

In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021). X, 168 p. ISBN 978-0-88844-223-9.

Reviews:

Ahuva Liberles, Tradition 54 (2022), 154-158

Erika E. Hess, French Review 96 (2022), 194

Rebecca Lynn Winer, Jewish History 36 (2022), 365-369

Jean-Pierre Rothschild, Revue des études juives 181 (2022), 477-479

Sarah Ifft Decker, TMR 23.05.23, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/36287/39185

Rachel Furst, AJS Review 47 (2023), 454-456

With Avraham (Rami) Reiner, Responsa of Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre: A Critical Edition (Hebrew; Jerusalem: Mekize Nirdamim, 2020). 370 p.

 

Peer-reviewed articles (since 2020)

  • ‘“It Requires Privacy”: Sharing a House in Thirteenth-Century Paris’, Jewish History 38 (2024): 1-17
  •  with Avraham (Rami) Reiner, ‘Isaac of Dampierre (Ri ha-Zaqen) and His Responsa’, Revue des études juives 182 (2023): 319-343
  •  ‘Rabbi Benjamin of Cambridge: First of the English Rabbis’, Mehqerei Talmud 4 (2023): 817-850 (Hebrew)
  •   ‘Reuben and the Collecta: A Dossier of Fourteenth-Century Iberian Responsa’, Sefarad 82 (2022): 207-226
  •  ‘Rabbi Nissim Gerondi and the Jewish Elites of Perpignan’, Revue des études juives 181 (2022): 51-67
  •  ‘Authors, Collators and Forgers: Recovering Rabbinic Culture in Late Medieval Avignon’, Jewish Quarterly Review 112 (2022): 31-59
  •  ‘Words and Seals: Multivalent Language and Jewish Legal Literacy in Medieval England’, Jewish Culture and History 23 (2022): 56-66
  •   ‘A Collection of Rulings from Medieval Montpellier’, Kobez al Yad 27 (2021): 151-179 (Hebrew)
  •   ‘A Hebrew Debate Poem from Medieval England’, Early Middle English 2 (2020): 83-89
  • ‘Manuscript Fragments of Early Tosafot in Perpignan’, European Journal of Jewish Studies 14 (2020): 117-136

Book chapters

  1. ‘The Responsa of Gersonides and their Reception’, Gersonides through the Ages, ed. Gad Freudenthal, Ofer Elior and David Wirmer (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 26 p.)
  2. ‘Rabbinic Politics , Royal Conquest and Provençal Jewish Identity’, Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews, ed. Talya Fishman, Ephraim Kanarfogel and Javier Castaño (Oxford: Littman Library, forthcoming, 18 p.)
  3. with Ethan Zadoff, ‘The Talmudic Community of Thirteenth-Century England’, Christians and Jews in Angevin England: the York Massacre of 1190, Narratives and Contexts, ed. Sarah Rees Jones and Sethina Watson, York Medieval Press: Woodbridge 2013, pp.184-203

 

Last Updated Date : 19/12/2024