Laura Minervini, PhD (1991), is Professor of Romance Philology and Linguistics in the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. She has published extensively on Judeo-Romance languages and linguistic contact in the Middle Ages and the early modern period. She has edited a corpus of Castilian and Aragonese texts in Hebrew script (Testi giudeospagnoli medievali, 1992) and a narrative poem on the biblical story of Joseph (Las coplas de Yosef, 2006, with Luis Girón Negrón); she has written the entries on Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, and Judeo-Occitan for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2021). Frank Savelsberg, Ph.D. (2008) at Freie Universität Berlin, is Senior Lecturer in Romance Philology at Georg-August University Göttingen. He finished his studies of Romance and German Philology and Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne with a Master thesis about the role of Jewish mysticism in the work of the Galician author José Ángel Valente. His Ph.D.-thesis was dedicated to the satirical work of Francisco de Quevedo. One of his main research interests is the medico-botanical terminology of Old Romance in Hebrew script (Medical synonym lists of Medieval Provence, 2011, with Gerrit Bos, Martina Hussein, and Guido Mensching) and he is one of the editors of the Manual of Judaeo-Romance Linguistics and Philology (2023, with Guido Mensching).