Alessandra Maria Veronese

Tenured academic positions

(December 2018 – present) Associate Professor, Medieval and Jewish History, University of Pisa
(February 2000 – November 2018) Assistant Professor, Medieval History, University of Pisa

Non-Tenured positions

2026 (January-April) Visiting Professor, University of Trier (Germany)
2025 (May) Visiting Professor, University of Trier (Germany)
2008-2009 Visiting Professor, University of Trier (Germany)
1999 (October/December) Visiting Professor, University of Trier (Germany)



Education

“Perfezionamento” (= PhD), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, 1992, 70/70 cum laude Dissertation’s title: “Una famiglia di banchieri ebrei tra XIV e XVI secolo: i Da Volterra”. Referees: Cinzio Violante, Kenneth R. Stow, Michele Luzzati
“Laurea” (= MA), Pisa, Dept. of Medieval History, 1984, 110/110 cum laude. Dissertation’s title: “I monasteri femminili nell’Italia settentrionale, secc. VI-XI. Referees: Cinzio Violante, Reginald Gregoire, Giorgio Picasso

Scholarship

Postdoctoral Humboldt Fellowship, Aryeh Maimon Institut für Geschichte der Juden, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany (1998-1999)
Postdoctoral research fellowship, Dept. Of Medieval History, University of Pisa, Italy (1992-1993)
Exchange scholarship granted by Israel Foreign Office, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1986-1987)

Academic teaching at universities of Pisa, Trier (Germany) and Collegio rabbinico of Rome
“Medieval History”, “Hebrew Language and Literature”, “Jewish Culture and History”, “History of the Jewish People”, “History of socio-religious conflicts”, “Medieval Jewish History”


Short Visiting Appointments

April 2020 University of Bar-Ilan, Israel (KA 107 teaching exchange)
April 2017 State University of Mongolia, Ulaanbator, Dept. of History (KA 107 teaching exchange)
April 2010 INALCO, Dept. of Hebrew, Paris, France (Erasmus teaching exchange)
July 2001 Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, Dept. of History (Erasmus teaching exchange)Expertise

After starting to do research in Medieval history on issues related to women (in particular on female nuns and monasteries in the early centuries of the Middle Ages, following the school of Cinzio Violante, I then moved on to deal with the Jewish presence in the years of my PhD (= Perfezionamento) at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, under the guidance of Michele Luzzati.

Starting from his research on the Tuscan Jewish world, I then broadened my horizons to other regions of Italy, to travel and pilgrimages of Jews in the late Middle Ages and in the early decades of the modern age towards Eretz Yisra’el, to Jewish women (with particular attention to the differences in the patrimonial and testamentary sphere between Ashkenazi and "Italian" Jewish women), to the history of settlements and commercial and credit networks, to the judicial treatment of the Jews in the Florentine Republic.

I am particularly interested in placing Jewish history in a general framework, considering it not only an
important element, but also capable of providing a different perspective and a more complex pattern of
interpretation.


My field of research has tackled the topic of this project from at least three perspectives:

1) The translation of Jewish travelogues is linked to the mobility of the Jews throughout the ages, and therefore the exchange of goods and ideas among Jews, Christians and Moslems.
2) In my book on the Volterra, I have tried to link family history and Jewish history, showing the interactions among several important Jewish families of bankers and merchants, and the establishment of a credit- and commercial network throughout the Italian Peninsula.
3) In my articles on Ashkenazi settlements, I tried to investigate the movement of Ashkenazi Jewish families towards Italy, and the “contamination” between two different models of socio-economic organization.