Dr. Aleida Paudice
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Dr. Aleida Paudice
Postdoktorandin
Orientalisches Institut
Seminar für Judaistik/Jüdische Studien
Philosophische Fakultät I
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Witt
06110 Halle / Saale
Telefon: ++49 (0) 345 / 552 40 61
Telefax: ++49 (0) 345 / 552 72 00
aleidapaudice@yahoo.co.uk
I am currently working on translations and transcriptions of the Qur‘an in Hebrew during the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. I am focusing on three main sources, all manuscripts: a fragment of the Qur’an in Hebrew characters found in Halle, a copy of Qur’an in Hebrew with a Latin commentary found at the Vatican Library in Rome and some fragments of the Qur’an from the Cairo Genizah found at the University Library in Cambridge.
Most of the Hebrew translations and transcriptions of the Qur’an are late and date back to the 16th century. The aim of my research work is to shed light on the historical and cultural context of these translations, what was their purpose and for whom were they produced. I hope that my research work will contribute, by supplying new and unpublished research material, to the still not explored in depth subject of Jewish knowledge of the Qur’an.
Study-Day-Beiträge
Education
| October 2000 | Ph.D., Churchill College, University of Cambridge: research on the “Chronicle of the Ottoman Empire” written in the 16th century by Elia Capsali of Candia (Crete). Supervisor: Prof. N. de Lange |
| 1999-2000 | Year abroad with a scholarship from the Israeli Government and the Rothberg International School: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (one year program) language skills: Hebrew and Arabic |
| 1993-1999 | Degree in Classics and Italian Literature at the State University of Milan (score 110/110) |
Awards
| November 2004 | Inaugural Endeavour Australia Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, awarded by the Australian Federal Government, one of three awarded in all fields to EU applicants |
| November 2004 | Humanities research award from the Board of Graduate Studies, University of Cambridge |
| March 2003 | Alessandro Nangeroni National Prize (best thesis on monotheisms), State University of Milan Bicocca |
| November 2002 | Award from the Cecil Roth Foundation, London |
| October 2001 | Award for college and university fees from AHRB |
| October 2000 | Studentship from Churchill College |
| March 1999 | National Award from the Primo Levi Foundation (Florence) |
Publications
| June 1999 | ‘Il libro di Ester nella tradizione ebraica- italiana’, Bailamme, 24/2, pp.54-101 |
| December 2003 | ‘Elia Capsali’s account of the fall of Constantinople’, Congreso Internacional IX Encuentro Científico sobre Grecia: Constantinopla: 550 años desde su caída (Granada, Spain) |
| March 2006 | Entry on ‘Elia Capsali’ in the Harvard Encyclopaedia of Ottoman Historians, ed. Hakan Karateke, Harvard University |
Papers
| April 2002 | ‘Cultural relations between Cretan Jewish Intellectuals and Christian Italian intellectuals: Elia Capsali’s library’, British Association for Jewish Studies, University of Southampton |
| July 2006 | ‘New unpublished documents from the State Venetian Archives on the Capsalis and the Jewish Community of Candia’, Congress organised by the European Association for Jewish Studies, Moscow, Russia |
| September 2006 | ‘Messianism and Rhetoric in Elia Capsali’s Seder Eliyahu Zuta’ 20th International Congress organised by the University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy |