Iris Idelson-Shein

Iris Idelson-Shein is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. Her book Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century was published in 2014. She is currently working on a second book, which explores representations of monsters in Jewish texts from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.