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ERC Project HEPMASITE

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Dr. Hanna Gentili

Hanna Gentili

Photo: Hanna Gentili

Research Associate

Institute for Jewish Studies

Address

University of Hamburg
Religions
Institute for Jewish Studies
Jungiusstraße 11
20355 Hamburg

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-8604

Key aspects of activity

  • Medieval and Renaissance Jewish philosophy
  • Interaction between philosophy and mysticism (15th-16th century)
  • History of reading and learning practices
  • History of the Hebrew book

Academic positions

Since 2014 Research Associate, ERC Project HEPMASITE, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Hamburg.

2023 Curator of the Hebrew Collections, British Library.

2021–2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Open University of Israel.

2019–2022 Research Fellow, Department of Jewish History and Bible, University of Haifa (Digital Humanities Project Ilanot).

2021 PhD in Combined Historical Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London (dissertation: The Reception of Aristotle in the Work of Yoḥanan Alemanno: Peripatetic Sources in MS Reggio 23).