Rivka Elitzur-Leiman

Rivka Elitzur-Leiman

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NYU / Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

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Rivka Elitzur-Leiman wrote her PhD thesis at Tel Aviv University, on Jewish amulets from Late Antique Palestine. She is currently a postdoctoral affiliate at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and a research fellow of the ERC project “Licit and Illicit Ritual in Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions”, at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Rivka is a researcher of ancient Jewish magic and an epigraphist, interested especially in material culture. Her research project will focus on visuality and materiality in Ancient Jewish amulets.