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Dr. Alessandro Grazi
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Dr. Alessandro Grazi
Academic Staff
EXC-Subproject "Pope Pius XII. and baptized Jews in Romania and Brazil"
Room 101
Aegidiistraße 67
48143 Münster
Postal Address: Domplatz 23 | D-48143 Münster
T: +49 251 83-26934
alessandro.grazi@uni-muenster.de
  • Research Foci

    • Jewish intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries
    • Jewish Christian Relations
    • History of the Jewish Book
  • CV

    Academic Education

    09.2008 – 11.2012
    PhD in the Humanities, University of Groningen. PhD Thesis: Patria ed Affetti. Jewish Identity and Risorgimento Nationalism in the Oeuvres of Samuel Luzzatto, Isaac Reggio, and David Levi
    09.2007 – 08.2008
    Visiting Research Graduate Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    09.2005 – 08.2007
    Research Master in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam
    11.1998 – 03.2004
    Master in Preservation of the Cultural Heritage (MA), University of Bologna
    09.2000 – 06.2001
    Overseas Student and Teaching Assistant, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA

    Positions

    since 03.2024
    Senior researcher responsible for the subproject "Pope Pius XII and baptized Jews in Brazil"
    2018 – 2023
    Senior researcher in Digital Jewish Studies. Department of History of Religions, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
    2016 – 2018
    Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Jewish Studies, University of Amsterdam
    2014 – 2016
    Lecturer of Italian Language and Culture, Volkshochschule Mittelhessen
    2015 – 2016
    Lecturer of Italian Language and Culture - Zentrum für fremdsprachliche und berufsfeldorientierte Kompetenzen Justus Liebig University Giessen
    2016
    Business English Teacher, English Learning Consultancy, Marburg (Siemens, GlaxoSmithKline, Behring, etc.)
    2013 – 2016
    Business Italian and Business English Teacher, SKT Gießen (Continental, Schunk, Isabellenhütte, etc.)
    2008 – 2012
    Research Assistant, University of Gronigen Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East
    2006 – 2007
    Rsearch Assistant - Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Amsterdam

    External Functions

    since 2019
    Incontri – European Journal of Italian Studies (Co-Editor)
    since 2018
    Annali d’Italianistica – Italian Studies Journal (Review Editor)
  • Publications

    • Books
    • Articles
    • Theses (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)
    • Web Publications (Blog Articles)
    • reviews as epapers

    Books

    Books (Monographs)
    • Grazi, A., 2022. Prophet of Renewal: David Levi, a Jewish Freemason and Saint-Simonian in nineteenth-century Italy. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
    Books (Edited Collections)
    • Dagnino, R. and Grazi, A. eds., 2017. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change: Believers in the Nation - European religious minorities in the age of nationalism (1815-1914). Leuven: Peeters Publishers.

    Articles

    Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
    Research Articles (Journals)
    • Grazi, A., 2024. Rhyming Jewish: Secular Jewish poetry in nineteenth-century Italy: Yod - Revue des études hébraïques et juives, 24 doi: 10.4000/12j35.
    • Grazi, A., 2022. Wissenschaft des Judentums goes digital: Neue Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen und Spannungen: Cursor - Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologie, 1
    • Grazi, A., 2020. Il pensiero di Isacco Samuele Reggio tra Haskalah e Wissenschaft des Judentums: Filosofia Italiana, XV(1), pp. 181–194.
    • Grazi, A., 2018. Divergent Jewish approaches to Italian nationalism and nation-building: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 36, pp. 261–282.
    • Grazi, A., 2017. Il Teatro di David Levi: La rassegna mensile di Israel, 83(2-3), pp. 133–146.
    • Grazi, A., 2015. David Levi – A child of the Nineteenth Century: Quest - Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 8 doi: 10.48248/issn.2037-741X/740.
    • Grazi, A., 2012. In Quest of a (Jewish) Identity: David Levi's Il Mistero delle Tre Melarancie: Zutot, 9, pp. 97–110.
    • Grazi, A., 2011. A Jewish Construction of a Catholic Hero: David Levi's A Pio IX: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 6(1) doi: 10.6017/scjr.v6i1.1909.
    • Perani, M. and Grazi, A., 2006. La “scuola” dei copisti ebrei pugliesi (Otranto?) del sec. XI. Nuove scoperte: Materia Giudaica, XI(1-2), pp. 13–42.
    Review (Journals)
    • Grazi, A., 2021. Review of E. D’Antonio, Il sangue di Giuditta. Antisemitismo e voci ebraiche nell’Italia di metà Ottocento: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 39, pp. 675–677.
    • Grazi, A., 2021. Review of G. Schorch – B. Klosterberg (ed.), Mission ohne Konversion? Studien zu Arbeit und Umfeld des Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum in Halle: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 132(1), pp. 113–114.
    • Grazi, A., 2020. Review of E. Mortara, Writing for Justice. Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 38, pp. 424–426.
    • Grazi, A., 2019. Review of G. Veltri – L. Pisano, L’ebraismo come scienza. Cultura e politica in Leopold Zunz: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 37, pp. 499–501.
    • Grazi, A., 2018. Review of E. Castelnuovo, The Moncalvos, Translated by Brenda Webster and Gabriella Romani: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 36, pp. 499–501.
    • Grazi, A., 2018. Review of F. Bregoli, C. Ferrara degli Uberti & G. Schwarz, eds. Italian Jewish Networks from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Bridging Europe and the Mediterranean: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 36, pp. 496–499.
    • Grazi, A., 2018. Postmodern tricksters: a comparative approach to contemporary picaresque literature: Incontri - European Journal of Italian Studies, 33(1), pp. 151–153. doi: 10.18352/incontri.10248.
    • Grazi, A., 2017. Review of C. Ferrara degli Uberti, Making Italian Jews. Family, Gender, Religion and the Nation: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 35, pp. 515–517.
    • Grazi, A., 2017. Review of C. Pontecorvo – A. Salah (eds.), Diari risorgimentali: due ragazzi ebrei si raccontano. Libro delle cronache (1861-1862) di Giuseppe Luzzatto. Giornale ebdomadario (1863-1864) di Amalia Cantoni: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 35, pp. 518–520.
    Book Contributions
    Research Article (Book Contributions)
    • Grazi, A., 2023. Questioning the Canon: Prayer Books and Jewish Reform in Nineteenth-Century Italy. in: B. Gissibl and A. Hofmann eds. Ein Europa der DifferenzenMultiple Sacralities. Rethinking Sacralizations in European History. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 81–102.
    • Grazi, A., 2021. On the Road to Emancipation. Isacco Samuele Reggio’s Jewish and Italian Identity in 19th-century Gorizia. in: R. Hansen-Kokoruš and O. Terpitz eds. Schriften des Centrums für Jüdische Studien, Volume 037: Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe. Experiences, Positions, Memory. Wien: Böhlau. pp. 33–46. doi: 10.7767/9783205212904.33.
    • Grazi, A., 2019. Freemasonry and Saint-Simonism as carriers of Enlightenment values in David Levi’s Weltanschauung. in: Y. Harel and M. Perani eds. The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press. pp. 268–288.
    • Grazi, A., 2017. The Role of the Italian Jews in Freemasonry and Secret Societies during the Risorgimento. in: R. Dagnino and A. Grazi eds. Believers in the Nation - European religious minorities in the age of nationalism (1815-1914). Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. 77–96.
    Review Articles (Book Contributions)
    • Grazi, A. and Dagnino, R., 2017. Religious minorities’ adaptation strategies in the Nineteenth century. in: R. Dagnino and A. Grazi eds. Groningen Studies in Cultural ChangeBelievers in the Nation - European religious minorities in the age of nationalism (1815-1914). Leuven: Peeters Publishers. pp. ix–xxvi.

    Theses (Doctoral or Postdoctoral)

    • Grazi, A., 2012. Patria ed Affetti. Jewish Identity and Risorgimento Nationalism in the Oeuvres of Samuel Luzzatto, Isaac Reggio, and David Levi. Dissertation thesis. University of Groningen Groningen: University of Groningen Press.

    Web Publications (Blog Articles)

    • Grazi, A., 2021. 'Hello, World!': a Python course for beginners with the Codingschule Düsseldorf.
    • Grazi, A., 2020. Initial familiarity with Transkribus: The User Conference 2020.
    • Grazi, A., 2020. Minhag Italia: Variations of Jewishness in the nineteenth century as reflected in Italian prayer books; A digital analysis.

    reviews as epapers

    • Grazi, A. and Müller, M., 2019. Rom.
  • Scientific Talk

    • Wolf, Hubert; Schüler, Barbara; Hinkel, Sascha; Grazi, Alessandro; Richter, Elisabeth; König, Lorena; Middendorf, Christian 2025: “Asking the Pope for Help. Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the sources of the Vatican”. Asking the Pope for Help. Jewish victims of the Nazi regime in the sources of the Vatican, Deutsche Botschaft beim Heiligen Stuhl, Rom, Feb 6, 2025.
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