Dr. Ilaria Briata

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Ilaria Briata is a researcher in Jewish literature and intellectual history specialising in early modern musar and late antique rabbinics. She is currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg, where she is part of the “Jewish Moralistic Writings of the Early Modern Period” project, working on a project on Shevet Musar by Elijah ha-Kohen Itamari (Constantinople, 1712). She has studied Hebrew language and literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2015, she received her PhD from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, defending a dissertation on the rabbinic tractates Derekh Ereṣ Rabbah and Derekh Ereṣ Zuta, which was published as Due trattati rabbinici di galateo (Brescia: Paideia, 2017). Her recent articles include “Disgust, Ethics and Etiquette in the Rabbinic Tractates Derekh Ereṣ Rabbah and Zuta,” Materia Giudaica 23 (2018): 67–75; “¿Cual madre a hijo comio? La storia di Maria di Eleazar nelle fonti spagnole e giudeo­spagnole,” Materia Giudaica 24 (2019): 161–71; and “Repentance through Fear: Cosmic and Body Horror in Shevet Musar,” European Journal of Jewish Studies 14.2 (forthcoming).