Dr. Nicola Kramp-Seidel
Coordination
Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
for German-Jewish History
at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Main research areas
Career
since 2023
Research Associate, Steinheim Institute; Project Coordinator "Stone Witnesses Digital"
2019-2023
Research assistant at the SFB 1385 "Law and Literature", University of Münster
2015-2019
Research assistant at the SFB 1150 "Cultures of Decision-Making", University of Münster
2012-2015
Lecturer, Institute for Jewish Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2012-2013
Research Assistant, Institute for Jewish Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures", University of Münster
2016
Doctorate (Jewish Studies), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
2011
Master of Arts (Jewish Studies), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2009
Bachelor of Arts (History and Jewish Studies), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Publications (selection)
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: ‘Your little finger is thicker than my hip’. The function of topoi in the responsa collection Ele Divre ha-Brit, Judaica. New digital episode 4.1 (2023). Link to the publication
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt’s View on Europe, in: Europe in Law and Literature. Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation , ed. Laura A. Zander, Nicola Kramp-Seidel. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2023 (Law and Literature 23), 121-128.
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: ‘Satan dances’: rhetorical strategies in the responsa collection Ele Divre ha-Brit, Ashkenaz 32.1 (2022): 125-152.
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: Solomon Adret’s Responsa as a practice of religious decision-making. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022 (Jewish religion, history and culture 33).
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: Semantics of decision-making in medieval rabbinic responsa, in: Semantics and narratives of decision-making from the Middle Ages to the present day, ed. Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz, Matthias Pohlig, Tim Rojek, Susanne Spreckelmeier. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021 (Cultures of decision-making 4), 158-173.
Kramp-Seidel, Nicola: Isaac Alfasi’s codification of Talmudic law in the Sefer ha-Halakhot on Tractate Pesachim. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019 (Studia Judaica 95).
Lectures (selection)
25.09.2024
„Digital stone witnesses. A long-term project in the academy program“, Forum Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Association of Monument Offices in the Federal States, Lower Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Hanover.11.09.2024
„Introductory Remarks“, International Conference "Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.
