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Tamás TuránSenior Research Fellow (TK KI)
Department:Academic Title: PhDEmail: [email protected]: +36-1 411 6749Building: ELTE BTK
Research Interests
Rabbinic literature
The history of ideas, religion, and scholarship, of 19th-20th century Hungarian Jewry
History of the Hebrew book in Europe
Selected Publications
Turán, Tamás; Carsten, L. Wilke (szerk.) Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016)
Two Peoples, Seventy Nations. Parallels of National Destiny in Hungarian Intellectual History and Ancient Jewish Thought, In: Hatos Pál, Novák Attila (szerk.), Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish / Israeli ethnical and cultural experiences in recent centuries, Budapest: Balassi Intézet, 2013. pp. 44-73.
Wherever the Sages Set Their Eyes, There is Either Death or Poverty - On the History, Terminology and Imagery of the Talmudic Traditions about the Devastating Gaze of the Sages; héber cím: Kol makom se-natnu hakhamim enehem, o mita o oni - le-toldot ha-maszorot al mabbatam ha-harszani veha-kotel sel ha-hakhamim, dimmujehen u-lesonotehen), Sidra 23: pp. 137-205. (2008)
Képfogyatkozás: Vázlat az ikonofóbia történetéről a rabbinikus hagyományban (Waning Images: A Short History of Iconophobia in the Rabbinic Tradition), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004.
Research Projects
Ongoing project:
The Political Contexts of the Hungarian Jewish Congress (1868-69) and Split
Past project:
Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Hungarian Public Collections (research project sponsored by OTKA)
Work in Progress
A magyarországi zsidó tudomány története (Academic Jewish Scholarship in Hungary) (konferencia-kötet, bevezetés)Goldziher mint tudós és zsidó (Goldziher as Scholar and Jew)
Academic Career
2018– Eötvös Loránd University, Dept. of Assyriology and Hebrew, assistant professor
2001– Center of Jewish Studies, Institute for Minority Studies, HAS Centre for Social Sciences (research fellow; from 2005 senior research fellow)1988–2001 Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow)1987-1989 librarian, the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest1985-86 high-school teacher of philosophy
Education
1994-1995: Visiting Research Student, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1989-1990, 1993-2004 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Talmud and Rabbinics (MA, PhD)1979-1985 Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), philosophy (MA)1978-1984 Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest): mathematics (MA)
Membership in Academic and Professional Organisations; Editorial Board Membership
Magyar Hebraisztikai Társaság (Hungarian Association for Hebrew Studies; member)European Association of Jewish Studies (member)
Awards and Honours
2017 József Schweitzer Prize
2008 Alexander (Sándor) Scheiber Sándor Prize2003-2005 Post-doctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem1997-98 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research1994-1997 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship1993-1995 Charles Revson Doctoral Fellowship
Teaching Experience
Since 1988: graduate courses (M.A. and Ph. D. level) at the Jewish Studies program of the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (Bible, Talmudic and later Rabbinic literature, Jewish history of Late Antiquity)2012: Summer School at Central European University (Polemus/Pulmus: Ways of Confrontation in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity in Late Antiquity)2005-2009: Lecturer, The Hebrew University, Rothberg School of International Students (Rabbinic Thought)2007: Lecturer, Paideia (The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden) (Talmud)1990-1992: Lecturer, Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest (Rabbinic Literature)
Further Affiliations
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Dept. of Assyriology and Hebrew
Languages
Hungarian (Native)English (Proficient)Hebrew (Proficient)German (Intermediate)
