Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Jewish History
History of Science and Medicine
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Ladino and Jewish Languages
Email: ilil.baum@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Website: Ilil Baum
Current Projects:
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Reading from the Margins: The Place of Language among the Jews of Christian Spain (twelfth-fifteenth centuries)
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Castilian Hegemony in the Jewish Mediterranean: The Formation of Sephardic Communities (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries)
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018: PhD, Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012: MA in Romance Languages, Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009: BA, General Linguistics; Communication & Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Post Doctoral Research
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2019-2023: The Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow.
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2019: The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral Researcher.
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2018-2019: The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Postdoctoral Fellow.
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2017-2021: Collaborating Researcher, University of Barcelona: “Vernacular Science in the Crown of Aragon and Its Romance Context (13th-16th Centuries)” [2017-2019]; “Vernacular Science in the Medieval and Early Modern Western Mediterranean” [2019-2021], financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Publications
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Baum, Ilil. “Jewish Lullism around the Expulsion: Spanish-Catalan Fragment in Hebrew Characters from Ramon Llull’s Introductorium Magnae Artis Generalis.” Jewish Quarterly Review 110.3 (2020), forthcoming.
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Baum, Ilil. “Traces of Jewish Scotism Among Late Medieval Catalan Jews: A Catalan Translation in Hebrew Script of De Distinctione Predicamentorum by Petrus Thomae.” Medieval Encounters, forthcoming.
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Baum, Ilil. “Jofre (Jaufre): The Circulation of Arthurian Romances Among Late Medieval Catalan Jews.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2019), 1-28.
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Baum, Ilil. “A Hebrew-letter fragment in mixed Castilian-Catalan from around the time of the Expulsion and its implications for the emergence of Judeo-Spanish.” In Caminos de leche y miel. Jubilee Volume in Honor of Michael Studemund-Halévy, vol. 2. edited by David M. Bunis, Ivana Vučina Simović, and Corinna Deppner. Barcelona: Tirocinio, 46-63.
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Baum, Ilil. “El Català en les fonts hebrees: algunes consideracions de l’aportació d’un tresor negligit.” Estudis Romànics 39 (2017): 345-354.
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Baum, Ilil. “Jewish-Catalan: On the Satirical Functions of the Hebrew Component and Other Linguistic Aspects in Five Wedding Songs from Medieval Catalonia.” Journal of Jewish Languages 4.2 (2016): 1-37.
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Baum, Ilil. “On the Extensive Use of the Suffix -ada in Judeo-Spanish.” Massorot 18 (2016): 1-24 [in Hebrew].
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Baum, Ilil. “El judeoespañol y la conservación del léxico popular del castellano medieval.” In Con una letra joven. Avances en el estudio de la Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española, edited by Clara Grande López, Leyre Martín Aizpuru, Soraya Salicio Bravo. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2014: 187-191.