Congratulations to Prof. Yair Furstenberg who has been appointed a new position
16 May, 2022
We are pleased to congratulate Prof. Yair Furstenberg (the "Setting Tables" research group) on his tenure and promotion to associate professor.
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Congratulations to Dr. Nadia Beider on her PhD
16 May, 2022
Mandel Scholion Center is delighted to congratulate Dr. Nadia Beider ("Setting Tables" research group) on her PhD. We wish you best of luck and much success.
Prof. Israel Yuval will receive the Mount Zion Award
28 April, 2022
The Mandel Scholion Center is happy to congratulate Prof. Israel Yuval on receiving the Mount Zion Award 2021/2022 of the Mount Zion Foundation. Prof. Yuval was Mandel Scholion’s first academic head, and the head of the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. The Mount Zion Award is given every two years to an organization or an individual who contributed to a dialogue between the religions. Congratulations from us all!
Congratulations to Dr. Dana Kaplan on the publication of her new book in English with Prof. Eva Illuz
7 April, 2022
The Mandel Scholion Center is pleased to congratulate Dr. Dana Kaplan of the “Setting Tables” research group on the English publication of her new book, “What is Sexual Capital?” co-authored with Prof. Eva Illuz. The book was published in German in 2021.
Congratulations to Prof. Nathan Wasserman on his recently published book
1 March, 2022
Mandel Scholion Center wishes to congratulate Prof. Nathan Wasserman (of the “Setting Tables” research group) on his new book which he co-authored with Dr. Elyze Zomer, Akkadian Magic Literature. Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Incantations: Corpus – Context – Praxis.
More information about the book can be found on the Harrassowitz-Verlag Publishing website.
Congratulations to Dr. Céline Debourse on her new book
20 February, 2022
Mandel Scholion Center is pleased to congratulate Mandel Fellow Dr. Céline Debourse on the publication of her first book, Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture. The book, published by Brill, examines the Late Babylonian ritual texts of the twelve-day New Year Festival and demonstrates how these texts "reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual."
Congratulations to Prof. Zeev Weiss on his new book
30 January, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Zeev Weiss, member of the "Setting Tabels" research group, on the publication of his new book "Sepphoris: A Mosaic of Cultures" (in Hebrew) published by Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
The launch of the book is accompanied with an online seminar at Yad Ben Zvi, which will take place on February 8, 2002. The full program and a link to register for the seminar can be found in the attached invitation.
The launch of the book is accompanied with an online seminar at Yad Ben Zvi, which will take place on February 8, 2002. The full program and a link to register for the seminar can be found in the attached invitation.
Call for Applications for Doctoral Fellowships at Mandel Scholion
27 January, 2022
New Mandel Scholion 2021 Newsletter
13 January, 2022
The Mandel Scholion Year in Review for 2021 is now available on our website. Year in Review 2021 introduces the research and public activities of 2021-2021, as well as the Center's focus for the coming year.
Prof. Yael Levin has won the Adam Gillon Book Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America
9 January, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Yael Levin, member of the "Evolution of Attention" research group, who has won the Adam Gillon Award from the Joseph Conrad Society of America for her book Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.