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Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio I am interested in comparing the literary (poetic and prose) representations of Jewish martyrs in Hebrew medieval texts, mainly from northern France 12th-13th centuries, with contemporary Christian representations. I am also interested in comparing conventions of representations between genres -- i.e., in the (almost always Hebrew) liturgical verse v. the prose "chronicle" accounts. Two conference papers, one currently submitted for publication, discussed shared motifs in Christian and Jewish hagiography and martyrology, and the use of romance narrative conventions in the reconfiguration of Pucelina of Blois (burnt with 32 Jews in 1171 as the result of a blood libel). My earlier research was on Hebrew literature of Jews in Arab lands (particularly, the muwashshah and zajal), so this is a big shift. ------------------------------------- 05/18/96 06:41:37 Susan Einbinder Hebrew Union College 3101 Clifton Avenue Cincinnati OH 45220 office: 513-221-1875 [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%