Publications

Books

Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 36. Leiden: Brill, 2024. DOI 10.1163/9789004689527

Articles

“Turning Straw into Gold: Constantin von Tischendorf’s Jewish Manuscript Collections.” Jewish Studies Quarterly 32, no. 2 (2025): 1–27. DOI 10.1628/jsq-2025-0009.

“‘Voices That Draw Near the Heart.’ Epistolarity and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Correspondence of Moses Zacuto.” In Binding Letters, Binding Words: Explorations in the Life, Thought, and Writings of Moses Zacuto, edited by Gerold Necker and Yuval Harari. Studies in Magic and Kabbalah 3. Harrassowitz, 2025.

“R. Moses Zacuto’s Correspondence and the Transmission of Magical Knowledge.” In Magic and Language. Perspectives on Jewish and Christian Magic in Early Modern Europe, edited by Yuval Harari, Gerold Necker, and Marco Frenschkowski. Harassowitz, 2024.

“The Beginnings of Christian Hebraist Bibliography in the Sixteenth Century.” In Premodern Jewish Books, Their Makers and Readers in an Era of Media Change, edited by Katrin Kogman-Appel and Ilona Steimann. Brepols, 2024. DOI 10.1484/m.bib-eb.5.132688.

“Der Sulzbacher Druck des syrischen Neuen Testaments (1684) in kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive.” In Das syrische Neue Testament und die Kabbala in Sulzbach. Akten der 30. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft, edited by Maximilian de Molière and Gerold Necker. MORGEN-GLANTZ Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft 32. Peter Lang, 2022. (With Gerold Necker.)

“Umstrittene Urheberschaft. Das sefirotische Diagramm im syrischen Neuen Testament (1555).” In Das syrische Neue Testament und die Kabbala in Sulzbach. Akten der 30. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft, edited by Maximilian de Molière and Gerold Necker. MORGEN-GLANTZ Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft 32. Peter Lang, 2022.

„Ex Bibliotheca Aegidiana. Das Fortleben der Bücher Kardinal Egidio da Viterbos in der hebraistischen Bibliothek Johann Albrecht Widmanstetters.” In Die Bibliothek – The Library – La Bibliothèque, edited by Andreas Speer and Lars Reuke, 775–92. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 41. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.

„Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter’s Recension of the Zohar“. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 41 (2018), 7–52.

Blog Posts

“Leipzig’s Role in the Early Exploration of Qaraite Literature.” Munich Research Centre for Jewish-Arabic Cultures, 13 February 2025. Link.

“Rabbi Juda der Fromme.” Gesichter unseres Landes, 13 September 2021. Link.

“Elijah Levita (Ben Ascher Ha Levi).” Gesichter unseres Landes, 2 July 2021. Link; Repost on Haus Der Bayrischen Geschichte.

Encyclopedia Articles

„Widmanstetter, Johann Albrecht“. In Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures, edited by Emile G. L. Schrijver, Leiden & Boston: Brill.

Reviews

„Aliza Cohen-Mushlin (Hg.) Selected Hebrew Manuscripts from the Bavarian State Library. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 2020.“ Morgen-Glantz 31 (2021).

Software

manuForma. Munich: 2023. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.8369887 (with Winona Salesky and Adam Retter)

Datasets

Inventory of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter’s Correspondence. Leipzig: 2024. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10458380 The inventory is also accessible through CorrespSearch.

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