Research Fields
- German and German-Jewish history and culture
- Christian-Jewish relations
- The history of the Yiddish-German encounter
- The social and cultural history of language and translation
About
Dr. Aya Elyada is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem History Department and a permanent academic member at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. She joined the Hebrew University in 2012, and since October 2020 she has been serving as the Chair of the History Department. Her current book project explores the place of Old Yiddish literature in modern German and German-Jewish culture.
Selected Publications
Protestant Scholars and Yiddish Studies in Early Modern Europe,” Past and Present 203 (2009), 69-98"
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, 280 pp.
Zwischen Austausch und Polemik: Christliche Übersetzungen jiddischer Literatur im Deutschland der Frühneuzeit," Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 69 (2017), 47-73"
Early Modern Yiddish and the Jewish Volkskunde, 1880-1938," Jewish Quarterly Review 107 (2017), 182-208"
Contested Heritage: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Yiddish Biblical Literature in Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Zion: A Quarterly for the Research of Jewish History 86:4 (2021), 563-91 [in Hebrew]"
Selected Awards
2012-2015 Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Israeli Council for Higher Education
2013-2017 "Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (CIG), "From Yiddish into German: A Cultural History of Translation
Teaching
Bachelor's degree courses
The Protestant Reformation as a Theological, Social, and Cultural Revolution
Luther, the Reformation and the German Language
Religion and Society in Sixteenth-Century Germany
Poverty and Crime in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Subordinated Groups in Early Modern Germany
Christian-Jewish Relations in Early Modern Germany
Christian-Jewish Relations in the First Reich: 1096-1648
Women and Gender in the Protestant Reformation
Books and Readers in Early Modern Germany
Master's degree courses
Language and Identity in Early Modern Germany
The Yiddish-German Encounter Throughout the Ages
Christian Hebraism in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Hebrew-Yiddish-German: Cultural History of Language