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Position: Lecturer/Professor
University of Barcelona
Departament of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages.Arab and Hebrew Studies
Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació
Departament of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages
Arab and Hebrew Studies
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona
espevalls@ub.edu
https://web.ub.edu/
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
11: Late Antiquity: T
Medieval: TR
15: Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): R
Local (e.g. the Jews of Canterbury, the Jews of Kovno, etc): TR
18: Epigraphy: R
19: Palaeography: R
3. Religion and Religious Movements: T
22: Jewish religion - general: T
23: Rabbinic Judaism: T
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: R
34: Medieval Philosophy: R
5. Rabbinic Literature: TR
38: Early (including Talmud, Mishnah, Midrash): T
39: Medieval: R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): R
43: Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): R
7. Languages: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: R
81: Codicology: R
85: On-line resources: R
Other subjects:
Catalan Judaism: Research
Catalan and judeolanguages: Research
Description
Esperança Valls-Pujol is associate professor at Department of Classical, Romance and Semitic Languages of University of Barcelona, president of the Catalan Society of Hebrew Studies and founding member and Research Associate at the Institut d’Estudis Món Juïc in Barcelona. She is also the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Tamid (Annual Catalan Journal of Hebrew Studies). In recent years, she has worked at the Historical Archive of Girona (Catalonia) in the classification, study and interpretation of the Hebrew manuscripts found in the notarial bookbindings of this archive. Her main area of research focuses on the Jewish Catalan world, with a special focus on science, Language and Catalan aljamia, the daily life and craftsmanship of medieval Catalan Jews, Jewish loans, Hebrew Catalan manuscripts and archival research, and she has published and edited several studies around these issues. On the other hand, she also devotes part of his academic work as editor (Collections Cum Laude, Mirades, Eduard Feliu, Flaixos Juïcs and Bet Guenazim from the IMJ). She has also organized international conferences concerning the study of Judaism in the territories of Catalan language, cultural events and courses of various kinds. She participates in some research projects, such as the European project Books within Books (Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries) of Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) or Xarxa de Calls of Institut d’Estudis Món Juïc and University of Barcelona for which she is a scientific coordinator.
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