Asher Salah is Associate Professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in 2011–2012 and in 2014–2015, and at the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies in Jewish Scepticism in 2016–2017 and 2020–2021.

His scholarship deals with Jewish literature in early modern Italy, Sephardic studies and Jewish cinema in the Mediterranean area. His publications include a translation into Italian and an analysis of Samuele Romanelli’s Masa‘ Be‘arav (Florence: Giuntina, 2006), La République des Lettres: Rabbins, médecins et écrivains juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siècle (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2007), L’epistolario di Marco Mortara: un rabbino italiano tra riforma e ortodossia (Florence: Giuntina, 2012), Diari Risorgimentali: due ragazzi ebrei si raccontano (Livorno: Belforte, 2017), Il mondo fuori dal Ghetto: I viaggi di Moise Vita Cafsuto, gioielliere alla corte dei Medici (Turin: Claudiana, 2022), Jeremy Popkin, Asher Salah, Giuseppe Veltri (eds.), A Sceptical Jew. Richard H. Popkin’s Private Republic of Letters (Boston: Brill, 2025).