Anna Abulafia
Anna Sapir Abulafia (born May 8, 1952) is a British academic. She is the Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the faculty of theology and religion at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.[1][2][3] She was appointed to the position on 1 April 2015.[4] Abulafia specialises in the history of relations between Jews and Christians in the European Middle Ages.[5] She once commented that when she asked her father whether she would stoke antisemitism by publishing an article on the subject, he replied that "Antisemites ... were not created by work like mine; they existed already without it and had no interest in historical analyses".[6]
Personal life
Anna Abulafia is married to the historian David Abulafia. They have two daughters.[7]
Selected publications
- Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Routledge, 1995.
- Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000-1150), 1998.
- Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: medieval roots, modern perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. (Editor)[8]
- Christian-Jewish relations, 1000-1300. Jews in the service of medieval Christendom, Routledge, 2011. (Medieval World Series)
References
- ↑ Prof Anna Abulafia. Lady Margaret Hall. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ↑ "Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia — Cambridge Forum for Jewish Studies". Jewishstudies.group.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "Abulafia, Anna Sapir - View scholar details - European Association for Jewish Studies". Eurojewishstudies.org. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "Dr Anna Abulafia appointed to Oxford Chair — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "Anna Sapir Abulafia: "Doing the King's Service: The Jews in Medieval England"". Ihr.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ Abulafia, Anna. "Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews". History Today. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "A Jewish Telegraph Newspaper". Jewishtelegraph.com. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ↑ "Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews - Anna Sapir Abulafia - Palgrave Macmillan". Palgrave.com. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
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