Prof. Dr. Susanne Talabardon
Project management
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
Professorship for Jewish Studies
Main research areas
Career
Since 2008
Professor of Jewish Studies, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
2005-2008
Research assistant, Institute for Religious Studies/Christianity, University of Potsdam
WS 2004/2005
Deputy Professor of Religious Studies with a focus on Jewish Religious History, University of Potsdam
2001-2005
Coordinator of the College of Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam
1997-2005
Research assistant, Chair of Religious Studies/Jewish Religious History, University of Potsdam
1996
Doctorate, Humboldt University of Berlin
1990-1994
Lecturer for Medieval and Ancient Hebrew, Humboldt University of Berlin
1990-1994
Research Fellowship, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1984-1990
Study of Protestant Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin
Publications (selection)
Talabardon, Susanne: Synagogue regulations Hammelburg. An introduction to the carefully reformed Jewish service – carefully explained for outsiders, Medaon - Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education 18 (2024): 1-18. Link to the publication
Talabardon, Susanne: Gog from Magog: A Supporting Actor in the End Time Restitution, in: Gog and Magog. Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif , ed. Georges Tamer, Lutz Greisiger, Andrew Mein. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2023, 63-84. Link to the publication
Talabardon, Susanne: Psalms in Kabbalistic Texts and Ritual, in: The Psalms in Jewish Liturgy, Ritual and Community Formation from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Biblical Texts in Dynamic, Pluralistic Contexts, ed. Claudia D. Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, Rebecca Sebbagh. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2023, 241-259.
Talabardon, Susanne: Jewish life in the GDR, Jewish Life in Germany after 1945, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Information on Civic Education 348 (2021): 24-35. Link to the publication
Talabardon, Susanne: Walking a fine line: the life and work of Shim’on Akiba Ber (d. 1724), in: Jewish life in the region. Rule, economy and society in the south of the Old Kingdom, Judaism - Christianity - Islam, ed. Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein. Würzburg: Ergon 2018 (City and region in the pre-modern era 7), 321-347.
Talabardon, Susanne: Eastern European Hasidism. Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck 2016 (utb Jewish Studies 4676).
Talabardon, Susanne: Expeditions into foreign lands. On the theory and practice of the spatial expansion of the sacred in Jewish religious history, in: Cultural mobility research: topics - theories - trends, ed. N. Franz, R. Kunow. Potsdam: Potsdam University Press 2011, 285-310. Link to the publication
Talabardon, Susanne: The righteous is the foundation of the world. Jewish legends of saints from the Hasidic world. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003 (Jewish culture. Studies in intellectual history, religion and literature 11).
Lectures (selection)
11.09.2024
„Labors of a Long Journey. The Chevra Qadisha in Bamberg and their Cemetery “, International Conference "Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Duisburg-Essen.27.06.2024
„Stone witnesses in digital form - researching Jewish cemeteries in Germany“, Conference "From History Book to Museum: Research and Presentation of Bavarian Jewry", Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities / Ad-hoc-AG "Judaism in Bavaria in the Past and Present", Munich.17.04.2024
„Stone Witnesses in Digital Form - German-Jewish Sepulchral Culture between the Middle Ages and Modernity“, with Tobias Arera-Rütenik, 3rd Network Meeting "Jewish Cemeteries in Franconia", Chair of Jewish Studies, University of Bamberg.17.07.2023
„From Rabbi to Lawyer: Emancipation History as Reflected in Grave Monuments“, Section "Jewish Cemeteries in Early Modern Germany: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", 12th European Association for Jewish Studies Congress, Frankfurt am Main.
