Alexandra Cuffel is professor for Jewish religion in past and present times at the Center for Religious Studies.
ERC Grant Juden Christen Cuffel (EN)
JewsEast, CERES
ERC Consolidator Grant 2015
Coexistence of Jews and Christians
How Jews and Christians encountered each other and lived together from the end of late antiquity is the research question of the project JEWSEAST from Alexandra Cuffel.
Professor Alexandra Cuffel and her team are investigating how Jews and Christians outside Europe and the Byzantine Empire encountered each other and lived together from the end of late antiquity. The results are intended to close a gap in research: while there has been a great deal of research into the coexistence of European Jews and Christians, the encounter between Oriental Orthodox churches and Jewish communities has so far only been investigated in very isolated cases. The researchers will examine and evaluate manuscripts, books, inscriptions on gravestones, and other archaeological artifacts in various languages, for instance in Armenian, Arabic, and Ancient Ethiopian.
The ERC Consolidator Grant "Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" of Alexandra Cuffel is endowed with around 2 million euros. The project starts in 2015.
ERC Grant Projects