Maya Soifer Irish
@msoiferirish.bsky.social
History professor at Rice University. Russian-Jewish American, "rootless cosmopolitan." I study medieval Iberia and its history of religious coexistence and confrontation. I love cats, nature, art, historical fiction, travel, and classical music. 📚🖼️🌊🎼🌸🐈
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Hello new followers! I'm an academic historian studying medieval Spain, especially Jewish-Christian relations in Castile. My first book was published in 2016. At Rice University, I teach the history of Europe and the Mediterranean ca. 300 to ca. 1500. www.cuapress.org/978081323633...
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CFP: Special Issue of the journal ‘Religions’ on “Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations,” edited by Dr. Eveline Brugger (Institute for Jewish History, Austria). Deadline for abstracts: Feb. 28, 2026.
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CfP for a Special Issue in the journal ‘Religions’ on “Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations”
PD Dr Eveline Brugger (Institute for Jewish History in Austria) will edit a special issue entitled “Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish–Christian Relations” for...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
CFP: Special Issue of the journal ‘Religions’ on “Polemics and Conversion: Setting and Crossing Boundaries in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations,” edited by Dr. Eveline Brugger (Institute for Jewish History, Austria). Deadline for abstracts: Feb. 28, 2026.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Sir Anthony Weldon, A Cat May Look Upon a King (printed for William Roybould, at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard, 1652)
Tucker Carlson recently read the Old Testament and didn't like it. I have so many questions, the chief among them being... what would St. Augustine say?
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Opinion | Tucker Carlson targets the ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition
Beyond hosting Nazi-admiring Nick Fuentes, the podcaster has other ideas involving Jews.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tucker Carlson recently read the Old Testament and didn't like it. I have so many questions, the chief among them being... what would St. Augustine say?
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New book (available for pre-order) — Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History
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November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
New book (available for pre-order) — Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History
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The Texas Medieval Association's annual meeting is coming to Rice University in April! Consider submitting a proposal. Rice is very cool, I promise. 😃
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November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Texas Medieval Association's annual meeting is coming to Rice University in April! Consider submitting a proposal. Rice is very cool, I promise. 😃
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A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’
“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
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“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’
“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
“Be glad that you are here”
Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷
📷 Corning Museum of Glass
#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology
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Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (we have 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. CUL Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
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{New Book} This centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc—a global medievalist trend of women being celebrated as their nation’s own Joan...Use of the title is bound to diverse & shifting preoccupations, prejudices & prerogatives of post-medieval world. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270007...
October 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
{New Book} This centres on the phenomenon of the Joans of Arc—a global medievalist trend of women being celebrated as their nation’s own Joan...Use of the title is bound to diverse & shifting preoccupations, prejudices & prerogatives of post-medieval world. www.arc-humanities.org/978180270007...
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📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
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[Open Iberia/América] Día de los Muertos/Halloween are coming up: read a medieval 'Danza general de a muerte' edited by Michelle Hamilton to celebrate openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/10/18/a...
Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) | Open Iberia/América
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October 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
[Open Iberia/América] Día de los Muertos/Halloween are coming up: read a medieval 'Danza general de a muerte' edited by Michelle Hamilton to celebrate openiberiaamerica.hcommons.org/2021/10/18/a...
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Funding available for Full and Student Members of the European Association for Jewish Studies to pursue archival or library research in 2026/27 - do check out the details here:
www.eurojewishstudies.org/scholarships...
Application deadline 30 November 2025.
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Application deadline 30 November 2025.
Call for Applications: Small Research Grant Programme 2025-26 (first round). Deadline for Applications: 30 November 2025 – European Association for Jewish Studies
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October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Funding available for Full and Student Members of the European Association for Jewish Studies to pursue archival or library research in 2026/27 - do check out the details here:
www.eurojewishstudies.org/scholarships...
Application deadline 30 November 2025.
www.eurojewishstudies.org/scholarships...
Application deadline 30 November 2025.
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UCCS is hiring for my old job. I am happy to answer any questions. Tenure Track pre-1600 .
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Assistant Professor - English - Colorado Springs, CO 80918 - Indeed.com
University of Colorado
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October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
UCCS is hiring for my old job. I am happy to answer any questions. Tenure Track pre-1600 .
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Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!
We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now equivalent to 3 US credit-hours, so go fill an elective with some intense medieval studies in this 3-week short-course!
Job: The Katz Family Archivist Librarian at the South Texas Jewish Archives (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University). Salary range: $69,948 to $71,000, depending on qualifications and experience. Deadline: Nov. 21, 2025.
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Katz Family Archivist Librarian, Special Collections
The Katz Family Archivist Librarian will primarily preserve, arrange, and describe archival collections in the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives (STJA), which represent Jewish hi...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Job: The Katz Family Archivist Librarian at the South Texas Jewish Archives (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University). Salary range: $69,948 to $71,000, depending on qualifications and experience. Deadline: Nov. 21, 2025.
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Job: Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and
Architectural History in the World at Brown University. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2025.
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Architectural History in the World at Brown University. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2025.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Job: Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and
Architectural History in the World at Brown University. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2025.
#medievalsky
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Architectural History in the World at Brown University. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2025.
#medievalsky
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In A Woman Is Responsible for Everything, Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach provide a groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life.
Out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In A Woman Is Responsible for Everything, Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach provide a groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life.
Out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now in North America (9 Dec UK pub): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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How can ancient Jewish wisdom literature reshape our understanding of identity, religion and language in the Mediterranean? With David Torollo & Miriam Goldstein.
28 Oct 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Register: t1p.de/entanglement...
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28 Oct 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Register: t1p.de/entanglement...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
How can ancient Jewish wisdom literature reshape our understanding of identity, religion and language in the Mediterranean? With David Torollo & Miriam Goldstein.
28 Oct 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Register: t1p.de/entanglement...
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#medievalmediterranean
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28 Oct 2025, 5-6 pm CET online
Register: t1p.de/entanglement...
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Being irritating is similar to being informative, right? I’m glad people are enjoying/reacting to our translation of the sources for the Battle of Tours, which you can find here: salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/k...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Being irritating is similar to being informative, right? I’m glad people are enjoying/reacting to our translation of the sources for the Battle of Tours, which you can find here: salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/k...
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Much #charterrific fun to be had on the new Fiscus website, dedicated to fiscal lands in the regnum Italiae! #medievalsky
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Fiscus
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October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Much #charterrific fun to be had on the new Fiscus website, dedicated to fiscal lands in the regnum Italiae! #medievalsky
fiscus.unibo.it/en/
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Religion scholars: One week left to apply to be my colleague in the small but mighty Religion Department at my small liberal arts college. We are hiring a TT professor of Religion in the US. Right now we have four religion professors, and you could be number five! slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2425
Religion in the United States Tenure Track Position
Sarah Lawrence College seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in Religion in the United States, to begin in fall 2026. We seek scholars from the fields of religious studies, area studies, and hi...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Religion scholars: One week left to apply to be my colleague in the small but mighty Religion Department at my small liberal arts college. We are hiring a TT professor of Religion in the US. Right now we have four religion professors, and you could be number five! slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2425
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Medieval through Early Modern Jewish Studies (@msoiferirish.bsky.social)
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Medieval through Early Modern Jewish Studies (@msoiferirish.bsky.social)
Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
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Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University
Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
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Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...