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:

Medieval and early modern history of the Italian Jews

Early modern history of the Jews in the Netherlands   

Interreligious encounters in the Middle Ages and Jthe Early Modern period 

Jewish Enlightenment

Publications

Monographs:

2021 - Jews without Popes: Inclusion and Anti-Judaism between Rome and Avignon (in German)(peer-reviewed) ISBN: 978-3-11-070440-2

Editions:

2024 - (With Martin Borýsek): The many faces of early modern Italian Jewry: Religious, Cultural, and Social Identities (peer reviewed) ISBN 9783111049151

Articles:

2024 - "The Notion of universitas Judaeorum as a Centralizing Instrument in the Late Medieval Papal States", in B. Cooperman, S. Di Nepi, G. Maifreda, (eds.): The Jews and the State Building (peer reviewed)

2023 - "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

Conferences and Workshops

2026 - International Conference Bridges Across the Continent: Jewish Worlds Between Venice and Amsterdam

2024 - Workshop Shaping Identities through Polemics: The Jewish Portuguese Nation in Amsterdam (17th and 18th Centuries)

2019 - International Conference The many faces of early modern Italian Jewry