Oded Zinger
Social history
Law & society
Gender studies
Cairo Geniza
Current Projects:
Gender and Law in the Jewish legal arena of medieval Egypt
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
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Fellow in the “Jewish Women’s Cultural Capital from the Late Middle Ages Through the Early Twentieth Century” research group at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. 2016/7
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Perilman Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, 2014-2016
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Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2016-2017
Prizes
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Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation, NES Department, Princeton University, 2015
Education
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2008-2014
PhD, Department of Near Eastern Studies. -
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2003-2007
BA History, Certificate in Near Eastern Studies,
Publications
See https://huji.academia.edu/OdedZinger
Presentations
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‘I am a woman without connections’: The Social Capital of Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt and its Absence. Jewish Women Cultural Capital Under Islam, an Israel Advanced Studies Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcASpaWedk
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Women's letters of request in medieval Egypt, Literary Genres and Their Changing Functions among Jews, Christians & Muslims in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages. IIAS (Jerusalem) - IAS (Princeton) Joint Workshop in Humanities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYzjQ3aE0_s
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Toward a Social History of Responsa in Medieval Egypt
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FROM FUSTAT TO HAIFA: 120 YEARS OF GENIZAH RESEARCH conference at Haifa university