David Freisem – senior lecturer
We are excited to announce that, starting in October 2020, Dr. David Friesem will join HCMH as a senior lecturer of environmental history and the head of the Laboratory for Environmental…
Newsletter for 2019/2020
Dear all, The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) is pleased to present its newsletter for 2019-2020. You are kindly invited to catch up on all of our past and…
Dr. Shlomit Bechar, HCMH Post-Doctoral fellow, published a new article in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly
Dr. Shlomit Bechar, HCMH Post-Doctoral fellow, published a new article in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, titled “Hazor Rulership and Ritual Manipulation”. The article is co-authored with M. Susnow from the…
Library Acquisitions
Library Acquisitions This is a list of all the library acquisitions made by the center (last updated 05.07.2021).Abdulhaq, N. (2016). Jewish and Greek communities in Egypt: entrepreneurship and business before…
Research funding granted for the digital project “Tiresias”
The digital project Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database, developed by Dr. Moshe Blidstein and Prof. Daphne Raban, has received seed research funding from the Data Science Research Center…
Intensive course: A methodological seminar on Venetian sources concerning trade in Mamluk territories and the role of Cyprus in this regard
A three-day intensive seminar on a wide range of Venetian sources related to maritime trade in the Mamluk sultanate and to the role of Cyprus in this regard will be…
Yedidah Koren’s participation at the “Rabbinic Judaism and its Contexts” Conference
HCMH has partly sponsored Yedidah Koren’s (Tel Aviv University) participation at the “Rabbinic Judaism and its Contexts” conference held in the University of Chicago on November 10-11, 2019. In…
Renard Gluzman participated in the PIMo Annual Conference
HCMH postdoctoral fellow Renard Gluzman participated in the PIMo Annual Conference held in Florence last week. The inaugural conference revolved around the theme "Encounters at sea, material and symbolic mobility…
The “Kinship and Community in the Early and Medieval Islamic Mediterranean” research group’s second meeting in Oxford!
The research group on Kinship and Community in the Early and Medieval Islamic Mediterranean met last week in Oxford (January 9-10, 2020). It was the second meeting of the group,…