Martina Mampieri

Martina Mampieri is currently a Martin Buber Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned a double Ph.D. in History and Jewish Studies from the University of Roma Tre and the University of Hamburg and received fellowships from the University of Oxford, Harvard University, the University of Göttingen, the American Jewish Archives and the Rothschild Foundation among others. She has published on Jewish cultural and religious history in the early modern and modern periods.

In 2024, she will join Penn as a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow. The project will be hosted by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (supervisor: Prof. Matteo Al Kalak) and the University of Pennsylvania (supervisor: Prof. Joshua Teplitsky), with a secondment period at the University of Amsterdam (supervisor: Prof. Emile Schrijver). As a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, she will work on a project entitled “BookSHUK: The International Market of Jewish Manuscripts and Books (1900-1948).

”The project endeavors to provide a comprehensive historical and transnational analysis and digital visualization of scholarly and trade networks, assessing the impact of major historical events (such as WWI and WWII) on the market for Jewish manuscripts and early printed books in Europe, Mandatory Palestine (then Israel), and the United States.