University / institution contact details
Position: Lecturer/Professor
University of Amsterdam
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Spuistraat 134
Amsterdam
1012 VB
Netherlands
https://www.uva.nl/profiel/w/a/b.t.wallet/b.t.wallet.html
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
12: Medieval: T
Early Modern: TR
Modern: TR
Regional and National (i.e. in North Africa, Greece, Eastern Europe, Germany, Middle East, Spain, India, South America, United States, etc): TR
20: Historiography: R
3. Religion and Religious Movements: TR
22: Jewish religion - general: T
30: Religion in the State of Israel: T
Liturgy and prayer: TR
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): R
46: Yiddish: R
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
64: State of Israel: T
65: Jews in the United States: T
Jewish identity and assimilation: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
77: Scholarship, history of: R
78: Teaching and Study of Judaism: R
82: Hebrew Printing: T
11. Digital Humanities: R
86: Digital humanities: R
Description
Bart Wallet is professor of early modern and modern Jewish history at the Middle Eastern Studies: Hebrew and Jewish Studies department of the University of Amsterdam.
His field of specialization is Jewish history, in particular early modern and modern Dutch Jewry. His research includes early modern Yiddish historiography, policies of integrating Jews into Dutch society, Jewish funerary culture, postwar reconstruction of Dutch Jewry, and the use and transformation of the genres of lukhot (Yiddish-Hebrew almanacs), sidurim and makhzorim (prayerbooks) in the early modern and modern periods.