Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (http://www.humboldt-professur.de/en/). Kogman-Appel’s research discusses illumination and decoration in Hebrew manuscripts and Jewish book culture. She will assume the Professorship in November 2016 at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster to establish a study track in Jewish cultural history.