Ph.D. Tamás Visi

Ursula and Kurt Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies

Palacky University, Olomouc

10 Křížkovského, 771 80 Olomouc

Tel: +420-585 633 490

E-mail:visi.tamas@gmail.com

• 1992–2000: Undergraduate studies at ELTE, Budapest
• 1996–1999: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, ELTE University, Budapest
• 1996–1999: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, ELTE University, Budapest
• 1999–2000: Assistant Researcher, Center for Jewish Studies, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, Budapest
•  2001–2002: MA program in Medieval Studies, CEU
•  2002–2006: Doctoral Program in Medieval Studies, CEU (Ph.D. Medieval Studies:dissertation on the early Ibn Ezra supercommentaries)
• 2006–2012: Assistant Professor, Kabinet Judaistiky, Palacky University, Olomouc
• 2012: Doc. Philosophy Palacky University, Olomouc
•  2012:Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• since 2012: Associate Professor, Kurt and Ursula Schubert Centre for Jewish Studies, Palacky University, Olomouc
• Main interests:Moravian Jewish history, (especially rabbinic literature and other Hebrew sources), medieval Jewish philosophy and intellectual history
• Recent publications: “Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae in Hebrew: A New Finding” in Resianne Fontain, Gad Freudenthal (eds.), Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies, vol. 1 (2013), 275-293; “The Emergence of Philosophy in Ashkenazic Contexts –The Case of Czech Lands in the Early Fifteenth Century” in Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, vol. 8 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009), 213-243. “Remembering and Forgetting Idolatry: Moses Maimonides, Moses Narboni, and Eliezer Eilburg on the Biblical Past” in Lucie Doležalová (ed.), The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 415-438. “Ibn Ezra, a Maimonidean Authority: The Evidence of the Early Ibn Ezra Supercommentaries,” in James T. Robinson (ed.), The Cultures of Maimonideanism (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 89-131