Szakmai életrajz / CV (in English)
Bányai Viktória PhD

Szakmai életrajz / CV
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Personal details

E-mail: banyai.viktoria@hebraisztika.hu
Maiden name: Viktória Pusztai

Education
1995-2001      PhD in History (summa cum laude), Eötvös Loránd University
Title of dissertation: History of Jewish Education in Hungary, 1780-1850
(The dissertation was published in 2005.)
1997                Summer University Course, Central European University, Budapest
1995                MA in Jewish Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1994                MA in History, Eötvös Loránd University
1991-1992      Ulpan and One Year Programme, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Employment
2005-present   Senior research fellow, Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
1998-2005       Research fellow, Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1995-1998       Research assistant, Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Teaching
1995--present Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, Eötvös Loránd University (Biblical Hebrew, Biblical text reading, Jewish history in the pre-modern and modern times, Hebrew literature in Hungary, Jewish cemeteries)

Grants and Honours
2014-2016       János Bolyai Research Fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 
2011-2013       Research grant from the Rothschild Foundation Europe (London)
2007-2009       Research grant from the Rothchild Foundation Europe (London)
2003-2006       Postdoctoral Scholarship from the Hungarian Scientific Research Found
2004               Grant from the "Foundation for Hungarian Higher Education and Research" to support the publication of my PhD dissertation
2002                "Young Scholar" Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1998                Reseach Scholarship from the Soros Foundation, Budapest and from the Dinur Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
1997                Research Scholarship from Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna

Research Interest
Hungarian Jewish history and culture in the pre-modern and modern times; Hebrew language and literature in Hungary; Hebrew sources relating to the history of Hungary and the Hungarian Jewry, Jewish cemeteries in Hungary.

Conference Papers (selected)
"Hebrew Literature in Hungary in the Epoch of Haskalah" -- the Sixth International Conference of "Dr. Moshe Carmilly" Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History, Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca, 1996)
"Jewish Education in Hungary in the First Half of the 19th Century" -- Sixth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies, Section of Modern Jewish History (Toledo, 1998)
"Hungarian-Jewish Press from Beginning till 1868 [in Hungarian]" -- Conference of "Szombat" and the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association (Budapest, 2000)
"From Classical Hebrew to Ivrit [in Hungarian]" -- Conference of Department of Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, 2002)
"Hebrew Textbooks in Hungarian Jewish Education [in Hungarian]" -- Conference of Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies (Budapest, 2003)
"The Responsa of Ezekiel Landau [in Hungarian]" -- Conference of the Center of Jewish Studies (Budapest, 2006)
"Hebraization of Family Names - in Socio-historical and Linguistic Contex [in Hungarian]" -- Conference of the Hungarian Onomastic Society (Budapest, 2007)
"Aqedah as Archetype in Medieval Jewish Chronicles [in Hungarian]" -- The Aqedah in Jewish and Christian Tradition; Symposium at Sapientia College of Theology (Budapest, 2009)
"Bernát Munkácsi, the Inspector of the Jewish Schools in Budapest [in Hungarian]" -- Conference to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Birth of Bernát Munkácsi (HAS, Budapest, 2010)
"Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Hungary: Historical Sources in Responsa-literature [in Hungarian]" -- Conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Oriental Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, 2010)
"Hebrew Language as an Instrument of Nation Building: Ideologies Relating to the Hebrew Language during the early 19th and 20th centuries [in Hungarian]" -- Between Minority and Majority. Hungarian-Israeli Conference of Historians (Balassi Institute, Budapest, 2011)

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