Dr. Reuven Kiperwasser

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsJewish Studies,Religious Studies
KeywordsRabbinic Literature, Iranica, Syrian Patristics, Transculturation, Jewish Late Antiquity
Honours and awards

2020: Research Fellowship, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton UK

2019: ISF project fellowship at the Melton Centre For Jewish Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2018: ISF project fellowship at the Melton Centre For Jewish Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2017: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Free University of Berlin

2016: Hamburg University Maimonides center of Advanced Studies Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryIsrael
CityRaanana
InstitutionOpen University of Israel
InstituteDepartment of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Tal IlanInstitut für Judaistik (WE 5), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Maria MacuchInstitut für Iranistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ruben ZimmermannEvangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2015

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2019Reuven Kiperwasser: Three Partners in a Person, The Metamorphoses of a Tradition and the History of an Idea . In: Irano-Judaica 8, 2019, 393-438
2019Reuven Kiperwasser: “Going West: Migrating Babylonians and the Question of Identity”. In: D. Rivlin-Katz, N. Hacham, G. Herman and L. Sagiv A Question of Identity: Social, Political, and Historical Aspects of the Formation, Transition, and Negotiation of Identity in Jewish and Related Contexts,. De-Cruyter, 2019. 111-130
2019Tal Ilan and Reuven Kiperwasser: “Virginity and Water: Between the Babylonian Talmud and Iranian Myth”. In: Almut Hintze, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst and Claudius Naumann, A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch, . Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. 193-208
2018Reuven Kiperwasser: “A Spindle for the Caesars Daughter”. In: Geoffrey Herman, Saskia Dönitz and Meron Piotrkowsky, Sources and Interpretation in Ancient Judaism: For Tal Ilan at Sixty. Brill, 2018. 229-251
2018Reuven Kiperwasser: “Narrative Bricolage and Cultural Hybrids in Rabbinic Babylonia: On the Narratives of Seduction and the Topos of Light”. In: Geoffrey Herman and Jeffrey Rubenstein, (Providence, RI: Brown Judaic Studies), The Aggada of the Babylonian Talmud and it's Cultural World. Brown Judaic Studies, 2018. 23-45
2017Reuven Kiperwasser: “Wives of Commoners and the Masculinity of the Rabbis: Jokes, Serious Matters and Migrating Traditions”. In: Journal for the Study of Judaism 48, 418-445., 2017, 418-445
2016 Aryeh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer; Reuven Kiperwasser. Reshaping Identities in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia. Gorgias Press, 2016