Projects
Negotiating Jewish identity: transnationalism in Italian-language writers of Jewish origin KU Leuven
The "Jewish neighborhood" in Antwerp. Geographical and symbolic uses of space by Jewish foreigners in an urban context (ca. 1900 - 1950) University of Antwerp
Scientific research in the context of the book project "A Tenuous Legacy. Confronting the Jewish Tradition in Modern Thought. " University of Antwerp
The literary trajectories of French and Belgian Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in the 1940s: A case study. KU Leuven
The aim for this research project is to map out the literary trajectories of Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in France and Belgium in the 1940s. The project thus wants to contribute to the existing body of work on women’s writing from the WWII period by focusing on a case that has not been studied much thus far: that of Jewish women writers. Moreover, for France and Belgium, the specific context of the Occupation adds to ...
Community without Commonality: "Samenleven" and the Jewish Communities of Antwerp. University of Antwerp
Tikkun and techné. A research into the Jewish contribution to the question concerning technology. University of Antwerp
Cultivating Scripture in a Hellenistic World: Jewish Scholarship of the Pentateuch in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine and Alexandrian Homer Scholarship. KU Leuven
This project investigates the development of Jewish scholarship of the Pentateuch in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine in the wake of Alexandrian scholarship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This project focuses on the attitude of Alexandrian scholars of the homeric epics and Jewish scholars of the Pentateuch towards the authorship, narrative consistency, and textual fluidity of their base texts. The first step in this research will be to demonstrate ...
Identity formation in the Jewish Thought-World and Paul’s Letter to the Romans KU Leuven
This project seeks to illuminate the potential for Paul’s understanding of early Christian identity formation within the Second Temple “thought-world” to which he belonged. Primarily focused on Romans 8-11, the project considers the integration of important themes within this densely packed passage, such as; election, the spirit/flesh dualism, vocation, participation, ethics, adoption, eschatology, and universalism. Special attention will be ...