M. (Magdaléna) Janosikova PhD
- Spuistraat 134
- Room number: 3.33
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Postbus 1641
1000 BP Amsterdam
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Publications
Magdaléna Jánošíková and Iris Idelson-Shein, “New Science in Old Yiddish: Jewish Vernacular Science and Translation in Early Modern Europe,” the Jewish Quarterly Review, 113.3 (2023): 394–423; https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a904505.
Magdaléna Jánošíková, “Humoral Regimens of Health in the Jewish Medical Cultures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” In Judaism, Jews, and Health, edited by Catherine Hezser (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023), pp. 159–180.
Magdaléna Jánošíková, “United in Scholarship, Divided in Practice: Seventeenth-Century Jewish Physicians on Smallpox and Measles.” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science, 113.2 (2022): 289-307; https://doi.org/10.1086/719576.
Magdaléna Jánošíková, “Studying Ibn Sına, Performing Abulafia in a Mid-Sixteenth-Century Prison: Emotional, Medical, and Mystical Bodies between Italy and Silesia,” European Journal of Jewish Studies. Special issue: “Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer,” edited by Agata Paluch and Patrick Koch, 16 (2022): 1–23; https://doi.org/10.1163/1872471X-bja10036.
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Publications
2025
- Janosikova, M. (2025). Repairing the Body and Repairing the Soul: Healthcare and its Pursuit in Premodern Jewish Cultures. Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341364
Jánošíková, M., & Idelson-Shein, I. (2025). The JEWTACT Database: Redefining the Jewish Archive. In H. Brown, R. Toepfer, & J. Wesche (Eds.), Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities (pp. 15-40). (Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit; Vol. 8). J.B. Metzler. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70483-7_2 [details]
2025
- Natalie B Dohrmann (2025). Q&A: Katz Center Fellow Magdalena Janosikova on the History of Medicine in Early Modern Ashkenaz. Web publication or website https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/qa-katz-center-fellow-magdalena-janosikova-history-medicine-early-modern-ashkenaz
Talk / presentation
- Janosikova, M. (speaker) (14-12-2025). The Trouble in the Archive: The Unnoticed Histories of Jewish Physicians in Early Modern Europe, Association for Jewish Studies.
- Janosikova, M. (speaker) (25-11-2025). The (Im)materiality of Embodied Knowledge: Early Modern Jews, Medical Knowledge, and the Book as its Source, University Utrecht.
- Janosikova, M. (speaker) (2-7-2025). Practical Knowledge in Medical Writings of the Early Modern Physicians in Europe, Freie Universitat Berlin.
- Janosikova, M. (speaker) (28-4-2025). The Intimate Networks of Jewish Medical Training: The Social Map of Knowers behind Texts, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
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Ancillary activities
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Jánošíková, M., & Idelson-Shein, I. (2025). The JEWTACT Database: Redefining the Jewish Archive. In H. Brown, R. Toepfer, & J. Wesche (Eds.), Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities (pp. 15-40). (Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit; Vol. 8). J.B. Metzler.