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Carsten Wilke is Professor at the Departments of History and Medieval Studies at Central European University Budapest. He obtained his doctorate in Jewish Studies from the University of Cologne (1994) and a Diploma in Religious Studies from the EPHE in Paris. Before his professorship in Budapest, he has been a member of research institutions in Mexico City, Duisburg, and Philadelphia. In his books and articles, he has researched intercultural aspects of Jewish religious history in a wide time frame, with focus areas in Iberian Crypto-Judaism, the Sephardic diaspora, and rabbinic reform movements of the nineteenth century. He authored the monograph publications Jüdisch-christliches Doppelleben im Barock: Zur Biographie des Kaufmanns und Dichters Antonio Enríquez Gómez (Peter Lang, 1994); "Den Talmud und den Kant". Rabbinerausbildung an der Schwelle zur Moderne (Olms, 2003); Histoire des juifs portugais (Chandeigne, 2007); The Marrakesh Dialogues: A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance (Brill, 2014); and Farewell to Shulamit: Spatial and Social Diversity in the Song of Songs (De Gruyter, 2017).