Hanna-Barbara Rost M.A.
Research Associate | hanna-barbara.rost[at]hfjs.eu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014 – 2019
M.A. History of Jewish Cultures, Heidelberg Center of Jewish Studies & University Graz
2015/16
Semester abroad in Graz (Austria)
2010 – 2014
B.A. Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, Freie Universität Berlin & University of Vienna
2012 – 2013
2 Semester abroad in Vienna (Austria)
Employment
Since 02/2022
Project Management, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, Chair of Bible and Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Project "Corpus Masoreticum"
07/2019 – 02/2022
Team Member, University Library Frankfurt/Main, Project "Special Information Service (FID) for Jewish Studies"
01/2019 – 06/2019
Project Assistant, University Heidelberg, Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies”, Subproject B04 “Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe”
2018 – 2019
Student Assistant, University Heidelberg, Institute for European Art History, Project "ShUM sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz. Nomination for the UNESCO World Heritage List"
2017 – 2018
Student Assistant, University Heidelberg, Collaborative Research Centre 933 “Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies”, Subproject B04 “Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The Masora Text of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Forms in Western Europe”
Lectures and Presentations as Part of Corpus Masoreticum
09.05.2018, Masorah Workshop: Philology & Aesthetics, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies: Iconographic Researchon Masoretical Illustrations in Bible Manuscripts of the 13th and 14th century
Publications
Rost, Hanna-Barbara. 2020. „The Interconnection Between Images and Texts. The Analysis of Four Masoretic Illustrations in MS Vat. ebr. 14 and Their Intertwined Relations.“ In Philology and Aesthetics: Figurative Masorah in Western European Manuscripts, edited by Hanna Liss, Series Judentum und Umwelt, Peter Lang: Berlin, 2021, 225-242.
Rost, Hanna-Barbara. 2021 (to be published). Review of Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual Profile of Elisha Ben Abraham Cresques (1325–1387) by Katrin Kogman-Appel, Tournhout 2020. In Trumah. Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg 25.