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Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies

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Mag. Phil. (Vienna), Dr. Phil. (Vienna)

Maria Diemling joined the department in September 2006, having previously been Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin |and a Research Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Centre |at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Courses taught in 2008-09:

• On maternity leave from January 2009.

Recent Publications:

• co-edited with Giuseppe Veltri, The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (=Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 17). Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2009.
• "'Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn': Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts", in: Maria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri (eds.), The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (=Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 17). Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2009, 93-125.
• "Grenzgängertum: Übertritte vom Judentum zum Christentum in Wien, 1500-2000", in: Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 7, 2 (2007), 40-63.
  
• "Anthonius Margaritha and his 'Der Gantz Jüdisch Glaub'", in: Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett (eds.), Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (=Studies in Central European Histories). Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2006, 303-33.
  
• "'Daß man unter viel tausend Menschen so fort einen Juden erkennen kan': Johann Jacob Schudt und der jüdische Körper", in: Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel and Robert Liberles (eds.), Die Frankfurter Judengasse. Jüdisches Leben in der Frühen Neuzeit (=Schriftenreihe des Jüdischen Museums Frankfurt am Main 9). Frankfurt, Societätsverlag, 2005, 67-80, 280-2. [2nd edition: December 2006]
  
• "'Mit Leib und Seele?' Christlicher Glaube und jüdischer Körper", in: Aschkenas 15, 2 (2005), 399-418.
  
• "Jewish-Christian Relations in Early Modern Germany - A Review", European Association of Jewish Studies Newsletter 16 (2005), 34-47. [Download as PDF-file]
  
• "Jewish Tales on Converts and Conversion in Early Modern Germany", in: Edward Kessler and Melanie Wright (eds.), Themes in Jewish-Christian Relations. Cambridge, Orchard Academic, 2005, 89-108.
  
• 'As the Jews Like to Eat Garlick'. Garlic in Christian-Jewish Polemical Discourse in Early Modern Germany", in: Leonard J. Greenspoon, Ronald A. Simkins and Gerald Shapiro (eds.), Food and Judaism (=Studies in Jewish Civilization 15). Omaha, NE, Creighton University Press, 2004, 215-34.
  

Recent book reviews in: Jewish Culture and History, L'Homme, Irish Political Studies, The Journal of Theological Studies, German History, sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, Aschkenas.

Research Interests

Dr Diemling has published on various issues of Early Modern Jewish history and Jewish-Christian relations. She is currently working on images of the Jewish body in Early Modern Germany.

She would welcome work with post-graduate students researching Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish religious, social and cultural history, contemporary Israeli culture and the body in religion.

Links

• Dr Diemling is a Member of the Committee of the British Association for Jewish Studies.
• Member of the Association for Jewish Studies.
• Member of the European Association for Jewish Studies.