Dr. Leor Jacobi

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Jewish Studies,Art History
Keywords	Acoustics, Spectroscopy, Rabbinic Literature, Bookbinding, Manuscripts
Honours and awards	2026: National Endowmend of the Humanities (USA) -- Binational Science Foundation (Israel) 2025: Shvidler Visiting Research Fellow, Fordham University & Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library 2024: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant 2024: Judaist in Residence: Juedisches Leben Erfurt, Germany 2021: First Book Award, World Union of Jewish Studies 2021: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellow 2021: Schatzmiller Fellow, Duke University 2016: President's Fellow, Bar-Ilan University

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Mainz
Institution	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institute	Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehnardt	Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Joan Ferrer Godoy	, Mainz
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Langer	Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Start of initial sponsorship	01/06/2021

Programme(s)

2020	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026	Leor Jacobi: Christian Books, Jewish Covers: ‘Mudejar’ Bookbinding Craft in Medieval Girona and Catalonia. In: Andreas Lehnertz, Maria Stürzebecher, Simha Goldin and Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials. De Gruyter, 2026. 221-250
2026	Geetika Vadali, Hugo Cherid, Erwan Émile, Haolian Shi, Leor Jacobi, D.S. Citrin, Cédric Pradalier, Alexandre Locquet: Terahertz reflectivity dataset: Reading text on both sides of the page. In: Data in Brief, 67, 2026,