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Joshua Holo, Ph.D.
Director, Louchheim School of Judaic Studies;
Associate Professor of Jewish History
Dr. Holo is an Associate Professor of Jewish History at HUC-JIR/LA, and Director of the Louchheim School of Judaic Studies. Dr. Holo's studies focus on Medieval Jews of the Mediterranean, particularly in the Christian realm. Prior to his role at HUC-JIR, he served as Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, CA. He is currently finishing up his first book, Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Areas of Expertise
- Medieval Jews of the Mediterranean
Education
- Ph.D. with distinction from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- B.A. in Classics and International Relations, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Awards
- 2004: Koret Foundation Jewish Studies Publications Program subsidy for Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy
Publications and Editorial Work
- Forthcoming: Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Forthcoming: "Bibliography of Jewish Sources for Byzantine Prosopography, 1025-1204." Byzantium and the Crusades: the
non-Greek sources, 1025-1204. Oxford: published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
- Forthcoming: "Byzantine Church and the Jews." The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History. Louisville and London:
Westminster John Knox Press
- "Jewish Communities and Personalities within Obadiah's Chronicle." Giovanni-Obadiah da Oppido, atti del convegno
internazionale, Oppido Lucano, 28-30 marzo 2004. Florence: Giuntina, 2005
- Ed., Spanish Jewry according to the Hebrew Sources [Los judios españoles según las fuentes hebreas] (ed.).
Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 2002
- "The Scola Grande Tedesca: a Synagogue's Return." Studies in Venetian Art and Conservation 2001. Venice: Save Venice,
2001
- Review of The Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah. By Nicholas de Lange. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1996.
The Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59/3, 2000
- "A Genizah Letter from Rhodes Evidently Concerning the Byzantine Reconquest of Crete." The Journal of Near Eastern
Studies59/1, 2000
- "Some Observations on the Trilingual Epitaph of Tortosa" ["Algunas observaciones sobre la lápida trilingüe de
Tortosa"]. Recerca 7, 1999
- Revision of Brazilian edition of Norman Golb, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? [Quem escreveu os manuscritos do Mar
Morto?]. Rio de Janeiro: Imago Editora, 1996
Selected Conference Papers & Public Lectures View Full List 
- January, 2006: "German Jewish Nationhood in the Venetian Ghetto, "conference of the American Historical Association, .
Philadelphia
- January, 2006: "Karaite Biblical Exegesis," teaching session at the conference of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis, Palm
Springs
- December, 2005: "The Inquisition and the German Jews of Venice," conference of the Association for Jewish Studies,
Washington, D.C
- May, 2004: "Medieval Jewishness: Race et al.," Spectacles of Race, UC Humanities Research Institute, Irvine
- March, 2004: "Jewish Personalities and Communities within Obadiah's Chronicle," International Conference on Johannes-Obadiah the
Proselyte, Oppido Lucano, Italy
Selected Conference Papers & Public Lectures Hide Full List 
- January, 2006: "German Jewish Nationhood in the Venetian Ghetto, "conference of the American Historical Association, .
Philadelphia
- January, 2006: "Karaite Biblical Exegesis," teaching session at the conference of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis, Palm
Springs
- December, 2005: "The Inquisition and the German Jews of Venice," conference of the Association for Jewish Studies,
Washington, D.C
- May, 2004: "Medieval Jewishness: Race et al.," Spectacles of Race, UC Humanities Research Institute, Irvine
- March, 2004: "Jewish Personalities and Communities within Obadiah's Chronicle," International Conference on Johannes-Obadiah the
Proselyte, Oppido Lucano, Italy
- November, 2003: "Byzantine Jewry and the Line between Astronomy and Astrology," Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
- August, 2003: "The Biblical Culture of Medieval Jewry," Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; "Cultural Limitations of
the Golden Age of Spain," State University of Rio de Janeiro; "The Missing Link: the Dead Sea Scrolls and Intertestamental Judaism,"
Jewish Congregation of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
- November, 2002: "Hebrew Culture in Medieval Spain," Sephardic Diaspora Lecture Series, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley,
California
- October, 2002: "Building the Jewish City: Byzantine Jews and the Development of the Urban Economy," Medieval Jewish History
Inaugural Lecture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
- March, 2002: "Factionalism and Solidarity in the Ghetto of Venice," Medieval Studies Talks, University of California,
Berkeley
- February, 2001: "The Power Language: the Hebrew Politics of Menahem b. Suruq," Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, the
University of Wisconsin, Madison
- December, 2000: "Jewish Autonomy in the Byzantine Empire," conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston
- October, 2000: "Byzantine Jewish Demography: Fluidity and Exchange," Workshop on Byzantine and Late Antique Studies, University
of Chicago
- December, 1999: "Merely a Religion: the De-Nationalization of the Jews of Byzantium," Boston University
- November, 1999: "The Inner Economy of the Jews of Byzantium," Workshop on Byzantine and Late Antique Studies, University of
Chicago
- October, 1999: "Capturing the Golden Age of Jewish Spain," Comparative Literature Program Lecture, Colorado College
- October, 1999: "Was Menahem b. Suruq a Karaite?" conference of the Midwest/Western Jewish Studies Associations, Colorado
Springs
- May, 1999: "A Diaspora within a Diaspora: Byzantine Jews in the Eastern Mediterranean Economy," International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
- October, 1998: "Correspondence from the Cairo Genizah," conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Chicago
- April, 1998: "A Mysterious Conversion to Judaism in Fifth-Century Byzantium," Workshop on Byzantine and Late Antique Studies,
University of Chicago
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