Lichter Lecture Series: Old Age as a Paradigm and Ideal in Medieval Jewish Culture

Old Age as a Paradigm and Ideal in Medieval Jewish Culture

**Elisha Russ-Fishbane** , Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at
New York University, is a historian of the Jewish communities of the medieval
Islamic world and a scholar of medieval Jewish culture, including the legacies
of Maimonides in later Jewish life and thought. His first book on the movement
of Jewish-Sufi pietism in medieval Egypt, entitled _Judaism, Sufism, and the
Pietists of Medieval Egypt: A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Circle_
(Oxford University Press, 2015), was awarded the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book
Prize by the American Academy for Jewish Research. His second book, _Ageing in
Medieval Jewish Culture_ (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022),
is a study of aging in the Jewish communities of the medieval Mediterranean
and Near East and of old age as a paradigm and ideal in medieval Jewish
culture. He is currently at work on a book on the many ways in which Islam
features in the medieval Jewish imagination both among the Jews of the Islamic
world and of Christian Europe.

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