Biography

Daniel Stein Kokin is Junior Professor for Jewish Literature and Culture at the University of Greifswald in Germany and served previously as Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University. His primary research interests concern Medieval and early Modern Jewish-Christian relations as reflected in linguistic discourse and visual imagery. He has authored articles on Christian Hebraism, Christian Kabbalah, and Jewish-Christian polemic, and is co-editor of a forthcoming volume of the I Tatti Renaissance library, Renaissance Cabala: Introductory Texts. He is currently completing his first book, The Hebrew Question in the Italian Renaissance.

Project Summary

His research addresses the role of space and movement in the articulation of Christian-Jewish difference in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, focusing on the extensive discourse concerning the opposing directions of the Hebrew and Latin alphabets, as well as on Jewish and Christian liturgical, ritual, and visual formulations and practices.