Projects and Research

Cooperation with IASA, Israeli High-School for Arts and Sciences

For three years the Department of Classics is cooperating with IASA. In the center of the project stands the teaching of Latin as part of the school's curriculum. There are three classes which study for four hours per week (10th, 11th, and 12th graders). The first class graduated this last May and are able to read Latin prose and poetry in the original. Overall there are c. 30 sudents in the project.

The classes are taught by an alumna of the department, Ms. Ella Kaplan who taught Latin in the deaprtment as well. For the teaching in IASA the materials were adapted and made more suitable for a high-school teaching. Students who finish the program reach the level of a second year university student and may enter studies in the Department based on their high-school records.

The project hopes to inspire students with the love for the language and classical culture.

IASA

Graduation ceremony, 2018

Graduation ceremoy for the third class of the IASA project (May 16, 2018)

Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae

A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad

Galen Reading Group

A reading group in Galen led by Prof. Donna Shalev and Dr. Orly Lewis (a fellow of The Martin Buber Society, Hebrew University), along with other experienced researches of Galen. The group focuses on Galen (in the original Greek), medieval Arabic medical manuscripts, and on the transmission of knowledge in Arabic in the middle ages.

Guests are more than welcome!

Informal meetings are held once in every few weeks in the Mandel building in Mount Scopus campus on Tuesday mornings.

You may contant Prof. Shalev with any question: donna@mail.huji.ac.il, 0546508882.

Le Groupe d'anthropologie historique de l'Occident médiéval (GAHOM)

The Exempla project: Reading, translating, and publishing of Latin manuscripts containing exempla, and enriching current data bases of parallel Jewish sources. The Exempla project is part of the research projects in the Parisian study center GAHOM: "Le Groupe d'anthropologie historique de l'Occident médiéval". The research group was founded in 1978 and since then has been working on three online data-bases: A bibliography of Exempla literature, a texts data-base in five different languages, and ThEMa (Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii aevi), a research group working with illustrated medieval manuscripts.

Dr. Ilana Klutstein is a research member of ThEMa.

In 2016 the Aluma research group was founded and it expands both the research themes and the time period.

GAHOM online (in French), and an info. sheet.