University of Oxford
Regional Variation in Ashkenazi Hebrew Script in the Thirteenth Century
Caleb Klein is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Faculty and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His research assesses the calligraphic typology and regional variation among thirteenth century Ashkenazi Hebrew scripts. Specifically, this work aims to systematically characterize the hallmark characteristics of the Hebrew Square calligraphy found in thirteenth-century England as it contrasts with French and German counterparts, and in so doing generate historiographical tools for tracing the movement of Jewish book-making traditions across Europe in the context of the English Edict of Expulsion in 1290.