Team


The HebrewPal team is an international collaboration between universities and researchers from Germany, UK, France, and Spain

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

Judith Olszowy-Schlanger


Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, FBA (PhD Cantab., 1995, Habilitation Paris-Sorbonne, 2002) is Professor of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences Lettres, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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Mark (מיכה) Farnadi-Jerusálmi

Mark (מיכה) Farnadi-Jerusálmi


Mark Farnadi-Jerusálmi is a postdoctoral researcher on the project Hebrew Manuscripts in the Digital Age at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (PSL, Paris).

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Alexander Gordin

Alexander Gordin


Alexander Gordin is a postdoctoral research associate in medieval Hebrew palaeography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in the framework of MiDRASH project.

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Fabio Ioppolo

Fabio Ioppolo


Fabio Ioppolo is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

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Elena Lolli

Elena Lolli


Elena Lolli earned her Joint Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the University of Bologna and École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL, Paris in 2019. Her doctoral research focused on the Book of the Dead of the Jewish Community of Lugo di Romagna, a work that has been published as a monograph by Giuntina, Florence, in 2020.

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Joseph O'Hara

Joseph O'Hara


Joseph O'Hara is Junior Research Fellow in Hebrew palaeography at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

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Celeste Pan

Celeste Pan


Celeste is a student of art history who works on manuscript decoration for the HebrewPal database.

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Blanca Villuendas Sabaté

Blanca Villuendas Sabaté


Blanca Villuendas is a Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona, working on intellectual history in the Islamicate world.

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Ronny Vollandt

Ronny Vollandt


Ronny Vollandt is Professor of Judaic Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität Munich and currently the first chairperson of the German Association of Jewish Studies.

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Evgeniya Zarubina

Evgeniya Zarubina


Evgeniya Zarubina is a postdoctoral research associate in medieval Hebrew palaeography at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL-University.

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