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Alessia Bellusci
Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in Medieval Jewish
History, Yale University, 2018-2020.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Library
of Israel (Rothschild and Beracha Foundations),
2017-2018.
PhD in Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv
University, Faculty of Humanities, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies,
2017.
Research Fellowship, Italian National
Research Council (CNR), Institute for Computational Linguistics (ILC), Pisa,
2013-2014.
MA in Talmud and Ancient Jewish Literature
(Magna cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of
Hebrew Culture, 2011.
BA
in History and Culture of the East and the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the
Modern Era (Summa cum Laude and Thesis Publication Request), University of
Rome, Sapienza, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Department of Ancient
World Studies, 2007.
E-mail: alessia.bellusci@yale.edu;
albellusci@gmail.com
https://judaicstudies.yale.edu/people/alessia-bellusci
https://yale.academia.edu/AlessiaBellusci
TEMI DI
RICERCA
Late
Antique and Medieval Jewish history; Jewish Magic; Hebrew Manuscripts; Cairo Genizah; Manuscript Cultures; Italian Jewish History;
History of Medicine; Religious Studies; Rabbinic Literature.
PUBBLICAZIONI
“Jewish Oneiric Divination: From Daniel’s
Prayer to the Genizah She’elat
Ḥalom.” In Divinatory Practices among Jews, edited by Josefina Rodriguez Arribas. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
“The Greek Prayer to Helios in Sepher Ha-Razim, in Light of New
Textual Evidence.” In Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and
Practices. Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related
Traditions, edited by Ljuba Merlina
Bortolani, William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Oriental Religions in Ancient Times. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, pp. 259–275. Together with Gideon Bohak.
“Un manuale moderno di magia in ebraico ed italiano dalla
Collezione di Lisa e William Gross.” In L'eredità di
Salomone. La magia ebraica in Italia e nel Mediterraneo, Emma Abate and Saverio
Campanini. Florence: MEIS-Giuntina, pp. 279–313.
“Immaginazione e modelli onirici tardo antichi nei frammenti magici
della Genizah del Cairo,” Materia Giudaica 23 (2018):
65–77.
“Jewish Magia in
Renaissance and Baroque Italy: Preliminary Notes on Ms. GFC 325,” in Flavia Buzzetta (ed.), Cabbala. Cahiers d’Accademia
11, Lucca: San Marco Litotipo, 2018, pp. 23–42.
“Oneiric Aggressive Magic: Sleep Disorders
in Late Antique Jewish Tradition.” In Demons and Illness: Theory and Practice
from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, edited by Siam Bhayro
and Catherine Rider, pp. 134–174. Magical and Religious Literature of Late
Antiquity 5. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
“A Genizah
finished product for She’elat Ḥalom based on Sefer Ha-Razim,” Journal of Jewish
Studies 67.2 (2016): 305–326.
“Towards a Translation Platform as a Bridge
between Ancient and Modern Languages. Part I. The Babylonian Talmud: A Web of
Knowledge between Past and Present.” In Greek into Arabic. Philosophical
Concepts and Linguistic Bridges: Digital Texts, Translations, Lexicons in the
Web, Biblioteca dell’ “Archivum Romanicum,”
Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia, edited
by Andrea Bozzi, pp. 57–68. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2015.
“Towards a Decision Support System for Text
Interpretation.” In the Proceedings of CLIC-it 2014, edited by Roberto Basili, Alessandro Lenci, and
Bernardo Magnini, pp. 58–62. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2014. (Together
with Andrea Bellandi, Giulia Benotto,
Amedeo Cappelli, Emiliano Giovannetti and Simone
Marchi). http://clic.humnet.unipi.it/proceedings/Proceedings-CLICit-2014.pdf
“The Talmud System: a Collaborative Web
Application for the Translation of the Babylonian Talmud into Italian.” In the
Proceedings of CLIC-it 2014, edited by Roberto Basili,
Alessandro Lenci, and Bernardo Magnini,
pp. 53–57. (Together with Davide Albanesi, Andrea Bellandi,
Andrea Bozzi, Emiliano Giovannetti). http://clic.humnet.unipi.it/proceedings/Proceedings-CLICit-2014.pdf
“Content Elicitation: Towards a New
Paradigm for the Analysis and Interpretation of Text.” In Proceedings of the
IASTED International Conference on Informatics. February 17-19, 2014, Innsbruk, Austria, edited by Mohamed H. Hamza, pp. 140-147.
Calgary, CA: International Association for Science and Technology for
Development, 2014. (Together with Andrea Bellandi,
Enrico Carniani).
“Graphic Visualization in Literary Text
Interpretation.” In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on
Information Visualization IV 2014, edited by Ebad Banissi et al., pp. 392–397. New York: IEEE, 2014.
(Together with Andrea Bellandi, Amedeo
Cappelli, Emiliano Giovannetti).
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6902939
“Computer Assisted Translation of Ancient
Texts: The Babylonian Talmud Case Study.” In Proceedings of the 11th International
Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (Venice, 2014),
edited by Bernadette Sharp and Rodolfo Delmonte, pp.
287-302. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. (Together with
Andrea Bellandi, Emiliano Giovannetti).
“A Dream Request for Ṣedaqah ben Maqmalyah: Mosseri
VI.5,” Cambridge University Library. Fragment of the Month: December 2014, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Taylor-Schechter/fotm/december-2014/index.html
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