Alongside my research and teaching, I pursue academic diplomacy through sustained international engagement across Germany, Spain, Poland, and the United Arab Emirates. This takes the form of conference participation, invited lectures, collaborative workshops, and editorial/peer-review service, with an emphasis on building durable scholarly bridges around Jewish manuscripts, material culture, and the humanities. My conference activity includes appearances in Abu Dhabi (NYU Abu Dhabi, 2018) and Poland (Bialystok, 2015), where I contributed Jewish textual and visual evidence to interdisciplinary conversations on cultural transfer and heritage.

A concrete example of this work’s public-facing dimension is my engagement with the recovery and circulation of Hebrew artifacts across institutions, including the Mainz scroll episode covered in the press (“After 50 years on a shelf in Germany, Hebrew scrolls return to Israel,” Times of Israel), alongside my related scholarly presentation “Homecoming and Healing: Hebrew Scroll Donations from the Mainz Martinus Bibliothek” (BAJS, 2021). In 2025, I also hosted a prominent Spanish professor in a Bar-Ilan University seminar, creating a platform for direct scholarly exchange and structured student exposure to current Iberian research agendas. In 2024, I delivered a public lecture in Erfurt addressing the October 7 war and its implications for scholarly and cultural discourse.