Dr. Alessandro Grazi

Current affiliations

Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Jewish intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries
Jewish Christian Relations
History of the Jewish Book

Academic Education
09/2008 - 11/2012	PhD in the Humanities, University of Groningen. PhD Thesis: Patria ed Affetti. Jewish Identity and Risorgimento Nationalism in the Oeuvres of Samuel Luzzatto, Isaac Reggio, and David Levi
09/2007 - 08/2008	Visiting Research Graduate Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
09/2005 - 08/2007	Research Master in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam
11/1998 - 03/2004	Master in Preservation of the Cultural Heritage (MA), University of Bologna
09/2000 - 06/2001	Overseas Student and Teaching Assistant, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA
Work Experience
since 03/2024	Senior researcher responsible for the subproject "Pope Pius XII and baptized Jews in Brazil"
2018 - 2023	Senior researcher in Digital Jewish Studies. Department of History of Religions, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
2016 - 2018	Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow - Department of Jewish Studies, University of Amsterdam
2016	Business English Teacher, English Learning Consultancy, Marburg (Siemens, GlaxoSmithKline, Behring, etc.)
2015 - 2016	Lecturer of Italian Language and Culture - Zentrum für fremdsprachliche und berufsfeldorientierte Kompetenzen Justus Liebig University Giessen
2014 - 2016	Lecturer of Italian Language and Culture, Volkshochschule Mittelhessen
2013 - 2016	Business Italian and Business English Teacher, SKT Gießen (Continental, Schunk, Isabellenhütte, etc.)
2008 - 2012	Research Assistant, University of Gronigen Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East
2006 - 2007	Rsearch Assistant - Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana Amsterdam
Functions and Memberships
since 2019	Co-Editor, Incontri – European Journal of Italian Studies
since 2018	Review Editor, Annali d’Italianistica – Italian Studies Journal

Publications

Questioning the Canon: Prayer Books and Jewish Reform in Nineteenth-Century Italy Grazi, Alessandro (2023) In: Gissibl, Bernhard; Hofmann, Andrea (eds.), Multiple Sacralities. Rethinking Sacralizations in European History. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Prophet of Renewal: David Levi, a Jewish Freemason and Saint-Simonian in nineteenth-century Italy Grazi, Alessandro (2022) Leiden/Boston: Brill. Type of Publication: Book (monograph)
Wissenschaft des Judentums goes digital: Neue Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen und Spannungen Grazi, Alessandro (2022) In: Cursor - Zeitschrift Für Explorative Theologie, 1 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
On the Road to Emancipation. Isacco Samuele Reggio’s Jewish and Italian Identity in 19th-century Gorizia Grazi, Alessandro (2021) In: Hansen-Kokoruš, Renate; Terpitz, Olaf (eds.), Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe. Experiences, Positions, Memory. Wien: Böhlau. Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Review of E. D’Antonio, Il sangue di Giuditta. Antisemitismo e voci ebraiche nell’Italia di metà Ottocento Grazi, Alessandro (2021) In: Annali d’Italianistica - Italian Studies Journal, 39 Type of Publication: Review (journal)

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Projects

EXC 2060 A3-37 - Pope Pius XII. and baptized Jews in Romania and Brazil

Duration: 01/04/2023 - 31/12/2025 | 1st Funding period

Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster