Dr. Daniella Zaidman-Mauer
CV
Curriculum Vitae
DANIELLA ZAIDMAN-MAUER
daniella.zaidman-mauer@biu.ac.il
Professional Experience
2025–ongoing Associate Editor, Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science
2024–ongoing Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Jewish Studies
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, Patterns of Knowledge Circulation (1500–1750): The Transmission and Reception of Jewish Esoteric Knowledge in Early Modern East-Central Europe led by Prof. Agata Paluch.
2022–ongoing Lecturer, University of Amsterdam
Courses: Modern Yiddish Language Acquisition (Beginners & Advanced), Early Modern and Modern Yiddish Literature.
2023 Winner, Education Award, University of Amsterdam
Awarded for the course Modern Yiddish Language Acquisition.
2022–2024 Associate Researcher, Heinrich Heine University
Project: Intersectional Identities in Old Yiddish Romance, led by Prof. Marion Aptroot.
2022–2023 Assistant Researcher, Open University of Israel
Project: Broadsheets: International Database and Study Tools, led by Prof. Avriel Bar-Levav.
1995–2022 Managing Editor, Yad Vashem Studies, Yad Vashem
Editor of the scholarly journal published in English and Hebrew.
Educational Background
2024 Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, Dept. of Hebrew, Aramaic and Jewish Studies
Dissertation: Plague and Piety: Yiddish Medical Literature in Early Modern Europe
Supervisors: Prof. Irene Zwiep, Prof. Bart Wallet
2016–2019 M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Yiddish Versions of Pereq Shira
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Rosenzweig
1993–1997 B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with Distinction)
Majors: Yiddish, German, History of Polish Jewry
Languages
English, French, Yiddish, Hebrew, Dutch, German.
Publications
Publications
Zaidman-Mauer, Daniella, and Anthony J. Bruder. “Pelukan in the Forest: Exploring Jewish Identity in Bovo d’Antona.” Renaissance Studies, special issue: ‘Discovering Europe through Early Modern Europe', Lieke Stelling and Anthony J Bruder (eds.) (2026) (Accepted for publication).
Zaidman-Mauer, Daniella. “A Remedy against the Quartan Fever in the Yiddish Remedy Book of Ẓevi Hirsch ben Yerachmiel Chotsch, Sgules u’refues (Amsterdam, 1703).” Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science 27 (2023): 81–108.
———. “The Key Role of Maskiel El Dal and Dr. E.J. Goldsmit in the Smallpox Vaccination in Amsterdam: ‘Blessed is He That Considereth the Poor.’” Studia Rosenthaliana 48, no. 2 (2022): 139–173.
———. “‘May God Shield Us from the Plague’: Vernacular Remedies for the Plague from Moyshe Kalish’s Yiddish Self-Help Medical Book Seyfer Yerum Moyshe (Amsterdam, 1679).” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (2022): 144–162.
———. “How People Should Handle Themselves during These Times When There Is a Plague G-d Forbid.” Korot: The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science 26 (2022): 153–172.
Zaidman-Mauer, Daniella, and Sivan Gottlieb. “‘Beat the Copper Nail in the Eye with a Hammer’: An Ancient Magic Spell in Yiddish for Catching a Thief.” European Journal of Jewish Studies (2022): 1–23.
Zaidman-Mauer, Daniella. “The Power of Song in Amsterdam: Pereq Shira in Yiddish and the Transmission of Piety.” Studia Rosenthaliana 1 (2021): 48–82.
Mauer, Daniella. “Yisroel Rabon’s Place in Modern Yiddish Literature: Di gas and Jewish Alienation.” Jews and Slavs 26 (2020): 208–217.
Book (Forthcoming)
PhD dissertation accepted for publication as a monograph in the series Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (Palgrave Macmillan), under the title: Yiddish Medicine in Early Modern Europe, 1679–1808 – Plague and Piety.
Last Updated Date : 05/11/2025
