Milan Žonca, PhD is a lecturer of Hebrew Studies. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Academic Board of Prague Centre for Jewish Studies. In his dissertation completed in 2015 at Queen Mary, University of London, he examined the intellectual diversity in Jewish communities of late-medieval Central and Eastern Europe. In 2012, the publishing house Academia published his Czech translation and commentary of the polemical works of Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides). Since 2022, he has been the Vice-Dean for International Relations.
Contact information: milan.zonca@ff.cuni.cz
‘Israel ben Abraham: An Ashkenazic Translator of Aquinas?’ Zutot 19 (2022), 103–120.
‘Menaḥem ben Jacob Shalem and the Study of Philosophy in Late Medieval Prague’, in: Ota Pavlíček (ed.), Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), 27–47.
‘Baby, kde jste? Úvahy o významuplné absenci seniorek ve středověké židovské literatuře’, in: Vojtěch Bažant et al. (eds.), Staré baby: Ženy a čas ve středověké Evropě (Praha: Lidové noviny, 2021), 199–213.
“Avigdor Ḳara’s Appeal Reconsidered: A Transcription and English Translation of a Begging Letter Written by a Late Medieval Scholar from Prague”, Judaica Bohemiae, 54:2 (2019), 31–48.
“The ‘Imagined Communities’ of Yom Ṭov Lipman Mühlhausen: Heresy and Communal Boundaries in Sefer Niẓẓaḥon”, in: Christoph Cluse and Lukas Clemens (eds.), The Jews of Europe around 1400: Disruption, Crisis, and Resilience (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2018), 95–119.
“‘…And Order Was Upset’: Easter, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Prague, 1389”, in: Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß (eds.), The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (New York: Routledge, 2018), 287–305.
‘Židovská konverze ke křesťanství ve středověku mezi metaforou a realitou’, Religio 25:2 (2017), 189–204.
“Několik poznámek k intelektuálnímu profilu Avigdora Kary“, in: Daniel Boušek, Magdalena Křížová, Pavel Sládek (eds.), Dvarim meatim: Studie pro Jiřinu Šedinovou [Festschrift for Jiřina Šedinová] (Praha: Filozofická fakulta, 2016), 35–56.
Nachmanidovy polemiky (Praha: Academia, 2012).
(with Daniel Boušek) “The Reflection of Interreligious Relations in Medieval Aragon in the Works of Solomon ibn Adret and Profiat Duran”, Czech Science Foundation, 2016–2017