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Visiting Fellow

Rivka Elitzur-Leiman

Postdoctoral Affiliate in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies NYU, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Biography

Rivka Elitzur-Leiman is a researcher of ancient Jewish magic and an epigraphist interested especially in material culture. Her research collaboration at the Neubauer Collegium focuses on visuality and materiality in Ancient Jewish amulets. Elitzur-Leiman wrote her PhD thesis at Tel Aviv University on Jewish amulets from Late Antique Palestine. She is currently a postdoctoral affiliate at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and a research fellow of the ERC project “Licit and Illicit Ritual in Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions” at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.

Project

Textual Amulets of the Mediterranean World: 1000 BCE-1000 CE

2023 – 2024