Carsten L. Wilke - CEU People

Carsten L. Wilke
Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture, Central European University,
Budapest
Born Sept. 8, 1962 in Cologne, Germany.
Address: History Department, Central European University, Nádor u. 9. H-1051
Budapest; Tel. 0036-1-327300 ext. 2632, E-mail: [email protected].
Academic Studies and Grades
Febr. 1994
PhD in Jewish Studies, University of Cologne, Germany, with the
distinction "summa cum laude".
Jan. 1994
Diploma in Religious Sciences, École Pratique des Hautes Études,
Cinquième Section, Paris.
Dec. 1987
Magister Artium in Jewish Studies, Romance Philology, Philosophy,
University of Cologne.
Academic Positions: Teaching
from 2009
Associate professor of Jewish Thought and Culture, CEU, Budapest
2008
Visiting professor, chair of Jewish Identities, Free University of Brussels
2006-2008
Visiting professor (since 2007, lecturer), chair of Jewish Religion,
Institute of Jewish Studies, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf.
2005-2006
Visiting professor, chair of History of the Jewish People, College of
Jewish Studies, Heidelberg.
Academic Positions: Research
from 2011
Head of project, "Medieval Hebrew Inscriptions, a European Database",
Central European University, Budapest.
2008-2009
Research fellow in the group on "Jews, Commerce, and Culture", Katz
Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Philadelphia.
2006-2008
Research fellow, Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German Jewish
History, Duisburg.
2002-2005
Research fellow, Documentation and Research Center of the Ashkenazi
Community of Mexico, Mexico City.
2000-2002
Research fellow, Portuguese Science Foundation, Lisbon.
1999-2000
Research grant, Institute for Medieval Philosophy, University of Bonn.
1997-1999
Research assistant, Dept. of Jewish Studies, University of Duisburg.
1995-1997
Research assistant, College of Jewish Studies, Heidelberg.
1994-1995
Research assistant, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
Language Proficiencies
- Spoken and written:
English, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish.
- Reading knowledge:
Dutch, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Yiddish.
- Basic notions:
Arabic, Aramaic, Czech, Greek, Hungarian.
Books
The Marrakesh Dialogues: A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance,
Leiden, Brill, forthcoming, ca. 300 p.
Elias Grünebaum, Die Sittenlehre des Judenthums anderen Bekenntnissen gegenüber. Nebst dem
geschichtlichen Nachweise über die Entstehung und Bedeutung des Pharisaismus und dessen Verhältniß
zum Stifter der christlichen Religion. Edition der Ausgaben von 1867 und 1878 hrsg. v. Carsten Wilke,
Köln: Böhlau, 2010, 336 p.
História dos Judeus Portugueses, trl. Jorge Campos Costa, Lisbon, Edições 70 (= series Lugar da
História, 75), 2009, 247 p.
Histoire des juifs portugais, Paris, Éditions Chandeigne, 2007, 272 p. The book obtained the 2008 Prix
du livre d'Histoire et de Recherche juives discerned by the French Jewish Social Fund.
Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit in den deutschen, böhmischen und großpolnischen Ländern, 17811871, Munich, Saur (= series Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner, ed. Michael Brocke und Julius
Carlebach, vol. I), 2004, 965 p. in 2 vols.
Den Talmud und den Kant: Rabbinerausbildung an der Schwelle zur Moderne, Hildesheim and New
York, Olms, 2003, 726 p.
I. S. Révah, Uriel da Costa el les Marranes de Porto. Cours au Collège de France 1966-1972, édition
présentée et annotée par Carsten L. Wilke, Paris, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004, 603 p.
I. S. Révah, Antonio Enríquez Gómez, un écrivain marrane (v. 1600-1663), édition établie, présentée et
annotée par Carsten L. Wilke, préface de Gérard Nahon, Paris, Éditions Chandeigne, 2003, 686 p.
I. S. Révah, Des Marranes à Spinoza, textes réunis par Henry Méchoulan, Pierre-François Moreau et C.
L. Wilke, Paris, Vrin, 1995, 288 p.
Jüdisch-christliches Doppelleben im Barock: Zur Biographie des Kaufmanns und Dichters Antonio
Enríquez Gómez, Frankfurt, Peter Lang (= series Judentum und Umwelt, No. 56), 1994, 474 p.
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