Pavel Sládek, PhD is an associate professor of Hebrew Studies and the Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. In 2012, he was a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania. In 2023 he was awarded a fellowship from the Oxford Bibliographical Society, and in 2024 a fellowship from the European Association for Jewish Studies. He is the principal investigator of the project “The Makers of Printed Books for Jews,” supported by the Czech Science Foundation (2026–2028).
Contact information: pavel.sladek@ff.cuni.cz
“From Manuscript to Print and Back Again: Two Case Studies in Late Sixteenth-Century Jewish Book Culture”, in: Kogman-Appel, Katrin – Steinman, Ilona (eds.), The Jewish Book 1400–1600: From Production to Reception, Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, s. 97–131.
“Before the law: Jewish Correctors of Early Printed Books”, in: Della Rocca de Candal, Geri – Grafton, Anthony – Sachet, Paolo (eds.), Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to typos and Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450–1650), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, s. 259–275.
(Spoluautorka Andrea Schatz) “The Editorʼs Place: Samuel Boehm and the Transfer of Italian Print Culture to Krakow”, Jewish Quarterly Review 112 (2022), č. 3, s. 468–519.
“David Gansʼ Magen David: Text and Context”, Aleph 21 (2022), č. 1–2, s. 235–276.
“Printing of Learned Literature in Hebrew, 1510–1630: Toward a New Understanding of Early Modern Jewish Practices of Reading”, in: Dillenburg, Elizabeth – Louthan, Howard Paul – Drew, Thomas B. (eds.), Premodern Jewish Books, Their Makers and Readers in an Era of Media Change, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2021, s. 387–410.
“A Sixteenth-Century Rabbi as a Published Author: The Early Editions of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffeʼs Levushim”, in David Ruderman – Francesca Bregoli (eds.), Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in the Early Modern Period, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, s. 49–66.