Dr. Davide Liberatoscioli

Research Associate

Postdoctoral Project: Abraham Gómez Sylveira – between Enlightenment and Tradition

Davide Liberatoscioli has been a research associate at the Chair of Jewish Thought at the University of Potsdam since November 2020. He studied History and Jewish Studies in Rome at La Sapienza University and completed his doctorate at the University of Potsdam with a thesis on the political relationships between Jewish merchants and Christian powers in late medieval Italy. From 2015 to 2018, he was a research associate at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies and from 2018 to 2019, he was a fellow of the Ursula Lachnit Fixson Foundation.

Research Interests:

Interreligious encounters in the Middle Ages and Jthe Early Modern period 

Jewish Enlightenment

Medieval and Early Modern Economic History

History of political theories in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period

Publications

Monographs:

Jews without Popes: Inclusion and Anti-Judaism between Rome and Avignon (in German)(peer-reviewed) ISBN: 978-3-11-070440-2

Articles:

"The New Testament and the Qur’an as Depicted in Abraham Silveira’s ‘Telling’ Mute Book" (peer-reviewed), in European Judaism • Volume 56, No. 2, Autumn 2023: 47–62. ISSN: 0014-3006

Article "Lyon", in: NGGJ. Die Neue Gallia Germania Judaica (With Danny Grabe and Olivia Mayer) (http://serv1-nggj.nggj.eu/admin/dashboard/client/index/456/Lyon)

Article "Orléans", in: NGGJ. Die Neue Gallia Germania Judaica (http://serv1-nggj.nggj.eu/admin/dashboard/client/index/1423/Orl%C3%A9ans) (With Danny Grabe and Olivia Mayer)