Dr. Nicola Kramp-Seidel

Research fellow in Subproject B04 "Rhetorical Strategies in Jewish and Islamic Legislative Texts"

CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Domplatz 6
Room 212
Phone: +49 251 83-28326
nkram_01@uni-muenster.de

  • Research areas

    • Rabbinica
    • Halakha
    • Medieval Hebrew Literature
    • Responsa Literature

  • Vita

    • since 2019: Research assistant at the CRC 1385
    • 2015-2019: Research Fellow at the CRC 1150 "Cultures of Decision-Making"
    • 2012-2015: Lecturer, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Düsseldorf
    • 2012-2013: Research Assistant, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Düsseldorf, and Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in Cultures of Premodernity and Modernity", WWU Münster
    • 2012-2016: Doctoral Project Isaak Alfasis Kodifizierung im Sefer ha-Halakhot zum Traktat Pesachim (funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
    • 2009-2011: Master of Arts in Jewish Studies, University of Düsseldorf
    • 2006-2009: Bachelor of Arts in History and Jewish Studies, University of Düsseldorf

  • Publications

    Books

    1. Salomon Adrets Responsa als Praxis religiösen Entscheidens. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022.
    2. Isaak Alfasis Kodifizierung des talmudischen Rechts im Sefer ha-Halakhot zum Traktat Pesachim. Berlin/Boston 2019.

    Editorship

    1. Europe in Law and Literature. Vigoni Conversazioni Continued. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2022 (forthcoming, with Laura Zander).

    Papers

    1. "Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt's View on Europe." In: Kramp-Seidel and Zander (eds.): Europe in Law and Literature. Vigoni Conversazioni Continued. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter 2023 (forthcoming).

    2. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf et al.: "Rhetorik", including: "2.4. Jüdische/hebräische
      Rhetorik." In: Thomas Gutmann, Eberhard Ortland and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.): Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur Online (forthcoming).

    3. "Responsa." In: Thomas Gutmann, Eberhard Ortland and Klaus Stierstorfer (eds.): Enzyklopädie Recht und Literatur Online (forthcoming, with Regina Grundmann).

    4. "'Der Satan tanzt': Rhetorische Strategien in der Responsa-Sammlung Ele Divre ha-Brit." In: Asckenas 32.1 (2022): 125-152.
    5. "Normen und Entscheiden. Bemerkungen zu einem problematischen Verhältnis." In: Ulrich Pfister (ed.): Kulturen des Entscheidens. Praktiken – Ressourcen – Narrative. Göttingen 2019. 248-265 (with Maximiliane Berger and Clara Günzl).
    6. "Semantiken des Entscheidens in mittelalterlichen rabbinischen Responsa." In: Philip Hoffmann-Rehnitz et al. (eds.): Semantiken und Narrative des Entscheidens. Göttingen 2021.

    Smaller works

    1.  "Olivia Bergdahl’s Writing of 'Europe'. Europe in Law and Literature: Vigoni Conversations Continued." Blog SFB 1385 "Recht und Literatur". https://sfb1385.hypotheses.org/69 (with Laura Zander).

  • Talks

    1. "Law and Gender in Jewish responsa of the 20th and 21st century." CRC 1385-Workshop Feminist Perspectives on Law and Literature, 14.-16.09.2022 (with Martin Herholz).
    2. "Between tradition and modernity: Decision-making-processes in the responsa written by David Zevi Hoffmann." 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, 08.-12.08.2022.
    3. "Forms and Functions of Quotations and Allusions in David Zvi Hoffmann's Responsa." CRC 1385-Workshop Forms and Functions of Legal Discourse Intertextuality in Works of Jewish and Islamic Law and Literature – Quotations, Allusions, References, and Plagiarism, 21.-23.06.2022.
    4. "Kuh im Recht – Kühe und Schweine in jüdischen Rechtstexten." Institut für Jüdische Studien, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, 03.06.2022.
    5. "'Ist es erlaubt, 'Amen' via Zoom zu antworten?' Responsa – Eine Literaturgattung des jüdischen Rechts früher und heute." Haus der Universität Düsseldorf, 16.11.2021.
    6. "Solomon Adret's Responsa and the Process of Decision-Making in Medieval Jewish Law." International Workshop The Relationship of Norms, Ritual and Law in Judaism, 17.-18.02.2020.
    7. "Asymmetry of Knowledge in Responsa." Workshop of the CRC 980 Asymmetries of Knowledge, 15.-16.04.2019.
    8. "Mittelalterliche rabbinische Responsa als Praxis religiösen Entscheidens." 1. Forschungstag des Fachbereichs Philologie der WWU Münster, 28.06.2018.
    9. "Entscheiden durch Externalisierung: Die Responsa des Salomon Adret (13. Jh.) zum religiösen Ritus." Workshop Responsa, Consilia and Fatwas. Practices of decision-making across the cultures – Judaism, Christianity, Islam, 23.-24.11.2017.