Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Minority Studies

Research Interests

• Rabbinic literature

• The history of ideas, religion, and scholarship, of 19th-20th century Hungarian Jewry

• History of the Hebrew book in Europe

Selected Publications

Turán, Tamás; Carsten, L. Wilke (szerk.) Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016)

Two Peoples, Seventy Nations. Parallels of National Destiny in Hungarian Intellectual History and Ancient Jewish Thought, In: Hatos Pál, Novák Attila (szerk.), Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish / Israeli ethnical and cultural experiences in recent centuries, Budapest: Balassi Intézet, 2013. pp. 44-73.

Wherever the Sages Set Their Eyes, There is Either Death or Poverty - On the History, Terminology and Imagery of the Talmudic Traditions about the Devastating Gaze of the Sages; héber cím: Kol makom se-natnu hakhamim enehem, o mita o oni - le-toldot ha-maszorot al mabbatam ha-harszani veha-kotel sel ha-hakhamim, dimmujehen u-lesonotehen), Sidra 23: pp. 137-205. (2008)

Képfogyatkozás: Vázlat az ikonofóbia történetéről a rabbinikus hagyományban (Waning Images: A Short History of Iconophobia in the Rabbinic Tradition), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004.

Research Projects

Ongoing project:

• The Political Contexts of the Hungarian Jewish Congress (1868-69) and Split 

Past project:

• Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Fragments in Hungarian Public Collections (research project sponsored by OTKA)

Work in Progress

• A magyarországi zsidó tudomány története (Academic Jewish Scholarship in Hungary) (konferencia-kötet, bevezetés)
• Goldziher mint tudós és zsidó (Goldziher as Scholar and Jew)