Dr. Roni Cohen

Dr. Roni Cohen is a Minerva postdoctoral fellow at Goethe University

Roni Cohen is a postdoctoral fellow at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Roni's research focuses on European Jewish popular culture in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. He examines the cultural roles and functionalities of different literary genres, including parodic literature, Yiddish ethical literature, and late medieval midrash, using tools from the fields of book history and translation studies, as well as anthropological and performance theories pertaining to the relationship between literature and cultural practice. His forthcoming book, Carnival and Canon: Medieval and Early Modern Parodies for Purim, will be published by Magnes Press.In his current project, “In Search of the Early Modern Earworm," Roni maps and analyzes short textual pieces that were added by scribes and book owners in the margins of late medieval and early modern Jewish manuscripts.

Education 

Tel Aviv University
2015 – 2022
PhD studies, Jewish History Dissertation: “Canon and Carnival: Medieval Parodies for Purim" Supervisor: Prof. Jeremy Cohen

2013 – 2015
MA, Biblical Studies (summa cum laude)Thesis: “Parallels, Origins and Hermeneutic Elements in Four Homilies from Midrash Va-Yosha Supervisors: Prof. Meira Polliack, Prof. Elchanan Reiner

2009 – 2012
BA, Biblical Studies and Jewish History (summa cum laude)

University Affiliation

09/2024 – 09/2026
Postdoctoral Fellow, Minerva Fellowship, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

03/2024 – 02/2025
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Open University of Israel.

04/2023 – 02/2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fulbright Israel, Columbia University, New-York.

10/2022 – 04/2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kreitman School, Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

10/2021 – 04/2023
Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC project “Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe", Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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Kontakt

E-Mail: ronich1988@gmail.com
Website: https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/RoniCohen