Dr. Roni Cohen is a post-doctoral fellow in the ERC research project Jewish Translations and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe, at Ben Gurion University. His Ph.D. dissertation, written in the Jewish History department at Tel Aviv University, was titled “Carnival and Canon: Medieval Parodies for Purim.” Roni’s research deals with European Jewish popular culture in the late Middle Ages and the early modern, and the relationships between textual pieces and communities. He also worked on the Yiddish collection at the Israeli Center for the Documentation of the Performing Arts.
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