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Profile
| Academic position | Currently without academic position |
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| Research fields | Jewish Studies,Musicology |
| Keywords | Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish Bible translation, Jewish Enlightenment, German Jewish thought, Wissenschaft des Judentums |
| Honours and awards | 2023: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, research grant 2022: World Union of Jewish Studies, Book Publishing Grant 2017: German Israeli Research Foundation, Research Grant 2014: ICORE Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Research Grant 2013: Society for Renaissance Studies, UK, Renaissance Studies Prize 2007: Society for Seventeenth Century Music, Irene Alm Memorial Prize |
Current contact address
| Country | Israel |
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| City | Jerusalem |
| Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Institute | The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese | Seminar für Judaistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Prof. Dr. Rebekka Voß | Seminar für Judaistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2023 |
Programme(s)
| 2023 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Sela, Yael: The People of the Song: Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah. Brill, 2025 |
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| 2025 | Sela, Yael: “Psalms, Book of: Modern Judaism”. In: Constance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, Joel LeMon, et al., The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR). De Gruyter, 2025. 24–25 |
| 2024 | Sela, Yael: Book of the Songs of Israel: Three Introductions to Psalms on Aesthetics, Translation, and Music by Joel Bril (1791). A Bilingual Edition. Brill, 2024 |
| 2024 | Sela, Yael: “Weisheit besingen, Tugend preisen. Musik und Neuhumanismus an der Breslauer Wilhelmsschule”. In: Uta Lohmann and Kathrin Wittler, Joel Bril Löwe in Breslau. Die Schulprogramme und andere Schriften im Kontext (1791–1801). Waxmann, 2024. 611–621 |
| 2022 | Sela, Yael: The Eternal Jew and the Poetics of Jewish History in Gustav Landauer’s Lecture on Historical Miniatures”. Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer. Brill, 2022. 348–356 |
| 2022 | Sela, Yael: “Sacred Poetry, Eternal Felicity, and the Redemption of Israel: Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms Commentary in the Berlin Haskalah”. In: European Journal of Jewish Studies 16, 2022, 1–20 |
| 2021 | Sela, Yael: “Fashioning Biblical Poetry as a Diasporic Motherland in the Berlin Haskalah”. In: Azimuth, 9, 2021, 15-30 |
| 2019 | Sela, Yael “The Voice of the Psalmist: Moses Mendelssohn on Psalms, Music, and Redemption” . In: Ilana Pardes and Ophir Münz-Manor, Psalms in and on Jerusalem. De Gruyter, 2019. 109–133 |
| 2018 | Sela, Yael “Longing for the Sublime: Jewish Self-Consciousness and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Biedermeier Berlin” . In: Nancy Sinkoff and Rebecca Cypess, Sara Levy’s World: Bach, Gender, and Judaism in Enlightenment Berlin. University of Rochester Press, 2018. 147–177 |
| 2018 | Sela, Yael: “Songs of a Nation: The Book of Psalms in Late Eighteenth-Century Jewish Enlightenment” . In: The Musical Quarterly 101, 2018, 1–32 |
| 2013 | Sela, Yael “Music, Acculturation, and Haskalah between Berlin and Königsberg in the 1780s”. In: The Jewish Quarterly Review, 103, 2013, 352–384 |