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Current Position
2023-2025 Post-Doc Fellow in Jewish Studies, PRIN Project 2022_VERGARI “The Digital Kennicott: Textual Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in the Middle Ages - DiKe (TexTHBM)” – Project ID MUR 2022EA8FC7 – CUP B53D23001470001, SSD STAA-01/H (former L-OR/08 Hebrew), Unit coordinator: Prof Romina Vergari, Università degli Studi di Firenze, website: https://www.digitalkennicott.unito.it/
Higher Education
2019 PhD in Comparative Language, Literature and Culture - curriculum Linguistics and Oriental Studies (cycle XXXI), Università di Firenze (Italy).
Thesis: The Lexical Field of ‘Time’ Nouns in Post-Biblical Hebrew: Ben Sira and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
2015 MA in Languages and Cultures of Ancient and Modern East (LM-36), Università di Firenze (Italy).
Major: Hebrew Language and Literature
Thesis: The Lexical Field of ‘Time’ Substantives in Biblical Hebrew
2009 BA in Literary Studies – Oriental Studies (L-10), Università di Firenze (Italy).
Thesis: From the Genesis Narratives to the Praise of the Fathers: A Case of Intertextuality in Sir 44,19-23e (La ricezione dell’antico in Ben Sira: Sir 44,10-23e)
Additional Education
2019-2020 CPE Proficiency Course (C2 Level), British Institute of Florence.
2016 English course: Writing for Research C1, Centro Linguistico di Ateneo, Università di Firenze
Workshop on Ambrosiana’s manuscripts B 30-32 inf. — Director Prof. Malachi Beit-Ariè, Ambrosian Library (Milan)
2015 Course of Hebrew Codicology and Palaeography — Director Prof. Malachi Beit-Ariè, Ambrosian Library (Milan)
Intensive Hebrew Summer Ulpan 2015, Advanced 2 (רמה ה׳), University of Haifa, International School
Grants
2023-2025 Post-Doc Fellowship in Jewish Studies,PRIN Project 2022_VERGARI “The Digital Kennicott: Textual Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in the Middle Ages - DiKe (TexTHBM)” – Project ID MUR 2022EA8FC7 – CUP B53D23001470001, SSD STAA-01/H (former L-OR/08 Hebrew), Unit coordinator: Prof Romina Vergari, Università di Firenze
2019-2022 Post-doc Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Ancient Hebrew Lexical Semantics: Time Nouns in Qumran Hebrew, Supervisor: Prof Ida Zatelli, FORLILPSI Department, Università di Firenze.
2018 Travel grant for the University of Cambridge Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, International Exchange Program Funds (Università di Firenze), 3-30 August: research on time nouns in the mss of the Book of Ben Sira.
2017 Travel grant for the Hebrew University di Gerusalemme and the National Library of Israel, International Exchange Program Funds 2017 (Università di Firenze), 3-31 August: research on time nouns in Ben Sira and Qumran.
2015 Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana grant for the Course of Hebrew Codicology and Palaeography, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 12-22 October.
Foreign Ministry of Israel Grant for an intensive Summer Ulpan at the University of Haifa, International School, 3-29 August.
Conferences and Papers
(With Sebastiano Crestani) The Digital Kennicott: Preliminary Results of the Project for the Preparation of a Digital Edition of Benjamin Kennicott’s Vetus Testamentum Hebraicum, “Nuovi percorsi e temi della ricerca in ambito giudaistico. XXXVII Congresso Internazionale dell’AISG 2024”, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Ravenna, 9-10 September 2024
An (In)visible God: Light in Dante’s Paradise and in the Bible, “Musei della traduzione. Tradurre la Commedia di Dante”, Dipartimento FORLILPSI, Università di Firenze, 7 March 2024.
«The Time Has Come, the Day is Near» (Ezek 7:7): Spatial Representations of Time in Ancient Hebrew in Light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, “Nuovi studi e ricerche sull’Ebraismo. XXXV Convegno Internazionale dell’AISG 2022”, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Ravenna, 5-7 September 2022.
Beyond Canon: Note on Intertextuality in Ben Sira’s Praise of the Fathers, “Interculturalità e interazioni fra ebraismo e cultura Cristiana. XXXIV Convegno Internazionale AISG 2021”, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Ravenna, 1-3 September 2022.
Aharon Appelfeld and the Holocaust survivor in Israeli literature, “Distilla veleno una fede feroce (E. Montale). Shoà e letteratura” (Holocaust Remembrance Day 2020), Biblioteca Umanistica, Università di Firenze, January 28, 2020.
Time in Ancient Hebrew: Some Semantic Observations, “Nuovi studi sull’Ebraismo. XXXI Convegno AISG 2017”, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Ravenna, September 4-6, 2017.
Lelio (Hillel) Cantoni (1802-1857). Notes on the recently discovered documents from the Terracini Jewish Archive (Turin), “I rabbini piemontesi e il Congresso Israelitico di Firenze. Tra riforma e tradizione: nuove fonti per la storia del dibattito”, Università di Firenze, April 27, 2017 and Jewish Community of Turin, December 4, 2017.
Eliezer Ben Yehuda and the Revival of Hebrew, “Lashon. Un popolo per molte lingue” (Europaean Days of Jewish Culture 2016), Pisa, 18 September 2016.
Teaching Experience
2024 Hebrew Literature 1, Università di Firenze (contract, 60 ore).
2023 Hebrew Literature 1, Università di Firenze (contract, 60 ore).
2022 Hebrew Literature 1, Università di Firenze (contract, 60 ore).
Modern Hebrew Literature, Università di Firenze (contract, 15 hours).
2021 Hebrew Literature 1, Università di Firenze (contract, 60 ore).
2020 Modern Hebrew Literature, Università di Firenze (contract, 15 hours).
2019 Modern Hebrew Literature, Università di Firenze (substitute, 15 hours).
2018 Modern Hebrew Literature, Università di Firenze (substitute, 15 hours).
2017 Modern Hebrew Literature, Università di Firenze (substitute, 15 hours).
2016 Biblical Hebrew, Università di Firenze (substitute, 6 hours out of 30).
2015 Jewish Culture, Università di Firenze (substitute, 9 hours out of 30).
Tutoring in Jewish History, Middlebury College School in Italy (Florence).
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