Prof. Dr. Lucia Raspe

Project management

Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
for German-Jewish History
at the University of Duisburg-Essen

raspe@steinheim-institut.org

External profile page

Main research areas

  • German-Jewish history since the Middle Ages
  • The Ashkenazi diaspora in Italy
  • Material culture
  • Synagogue rite
  • Narrative literature of the pre-modern era

Career

  • Since 2021

    Professor of German-Jewish History, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Director of the Steinheim Institute

  • 2020-2021

    Research fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

  • 2019-2020

    Project assistant ("Footprints in Frankfurt"), Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 2015-2019

    Curator in the team of the new permanent exhibition, Jewish Museum Berlin

  • Fellowships at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (Philadelphia), the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; visiting professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)

  • 2011-2015

    Professorships in Bochum, Potsdam and Munich

  • 2011

    Habilitation, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 2004-2011

    Research Assistant, Seminar for Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 2003

    Doctorate, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 1998-2004

    Research assistant, Seminar for Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

  • 1994

    M.A. in Jewish and North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

  • Studied in Tübingen, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Berlin and Jerusalem

Publications (selection)

  • Raspe, Lucia: Jewish ‘Lands’ in Post-Expulsion Ashkenaz: The Evidence of Liturgy, in: Disruption and Resilience in Late Medieval Ashkenaz, ed. Christoph Cluse. Historia Judaica. Miscellanies on Jewish history (Middle Ages and early modern period) 2024. Link to the publication

  • Raspe, Lucia: Tradition, Migration, and the Impact of Print: Local Rites of Selihot Recitation in Early Modern Ashkenaz, Jewish Quarterly Review 113 (2023): 83-104.

  • Raspe, Lucia: ‘All that Suffering’: A Medieval Dirge and its Fate in the Age of Print, in: Medieval Ashkenaz: Papers in Honor of Alfred Haverkamp Presented at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 2017, ed. Christoph Cluse, Jörg R. Müller. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2021 (Research on the history of the Jews A 31), 319-333.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Pride and Punishment: Christians and Jews on the Meaning of the Jewish Presence in Worms, in: Connecting Histories: Jews and their Others in the Early Modern Period, ed. Francesca Bregoli, David Ruderman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2019 (Jewish Culture and Contexts), 142-153, 270-275.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Minhag and Migration: Yiddish Custom Books from Sixteenth-Century Italy, in: Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews, ed. Javier Castaño, Talya Fishman, Ephraim Kanarfogel. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization 2018, 241-259.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Portable Homeland: The German-Jewish Diaspora in Italy and its Impact on Ashkenazic Book Culture, 1400-1600, in: Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile, ed. Yosef Kaplan. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017, 26-43.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Between Judengasse and the City: Jews, Urban Space, and Local Tradition in Early Modern Worms, Journal of Jewish Studies 67 (2016): 225-248.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Sacred Space, Local History, and Diasporic Identity: The Graves of the Righteous in Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz, in: Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History: Authority, Diaspora, Tradition, ed. Ra'anan Boustan, Oren Kosansky, Marina Rustow. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2011 (Jewish Culture and Contexts), 147-163, 370-379.

  • Raspe, Lucia: Jewish hagiography in medieval Ashkenaz. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck 2006 (Texts and Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism 19).

  • Raspe, Lucia: The Black Death in Jewish Sources: A Second Look at Mayse Nissim, Jewish Quarterly Review 94 (2004): 471-489.

Lectures (selection)

  • 09.09.2024

    „Stone Witnesses Digital: Research Program and Objectives“, International Conference "Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.

  • 21.03.2024

    „Stone Witnesses Digital: German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity - Space, Form, Inscription“, with Tobias Arera-Rütenik, MA Seminar "Jewish Heritage", Central European University (Prof. Dr. Carsten Wilke).

  • 07.09.2023

    „Digital stone witnesses: A new long-term project in the academy program“, Annual Conference of the Jewish Collections Working Group, Frankfurt am Main.

  • 17.07.2023

    „After the Expulsions: Rural Cemeteries and Jewish Life in Early Modern Germany“, Section "Jewish Cemeteries in Early Modern Germany: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", 12th European Association for Jewish Studies Congress, Frankfurt am Main.