In 2024 I am Marko Feingold Distinguished Fellow at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, Austria.

Marko Feingold did a lot for displaced Jewish persons who had ended up in Austria and whom he helped flee over the mountains from Krimml to Italy, where they could take the boat to immigrate to Palestine. In honor of this undertaking, every year a peace hike is conducted from Krimml. I participate in this event on June. 29-30. My report can be read here .

First lecture: The Judensau

As Marko Feingold fellow I do research about antisemitism in pre-modern times. In this capacity I gave two public lectures. The first lecture, held on 13 June 2024 dealt with the ancient roots of the medieval iconography of the Judensau, a depiction of Jews in combination with a female pig that thrived with some varieties in German-speaking lands between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Judensau has been the subject of several studies before. I investigate Biblical, early Christian and early Jewish texts and ideas that have eventually given lead to these (and similar) anti-Jewish christian images, and eventually lay bare the identity politics behind this imagery.

The text of the lecture, along with the Powerpoint and a video recording can be found here. For all references and quotations, please refer to prof. dr. Lieve Teugels, Marko Feingold Fellow PLUS Salzburg 2024.

This blog is was first sample of the research for this lecture.

Here is the German version; and the Dutch version,

Second lecture: Higher Criticism-Higher Antisemitism

I held my second lecture on October 17, 2024, in Salzburg.

Here you can find the text of the lecture. A video and a link to the published version will be posted latere/.