Fellows’ Recent Publications

2020

Lila Corwin Berman,  The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, eds.: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8 (Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939) (Yale University Press, 2020)

Matthias B. Lehmann and Jessica M. Marglin, eds.: Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020)

Derek Penslar, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (Yale University Press, 2020)

David B. Ruderman: Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis: The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

Peter Schäfer, Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth (Harvard University Press, 2020)

2019

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Jay R. Berkovitz, Law’s Dominion: Jewish Community, Religion, and Family in Early Modern Metz (Brill Academic Publishers, 2019)

Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman, eds., Connecting Histories:
Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Jeffrey S. Gurock, Parkchester: A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity (New York University Press, 2019)

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David C. Kraemer: A History of the Talmud (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Shaul Magid, ed., The Bible, The Talmud and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentray to the Gospels (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Shaul Magid, Piety and Rebellion: Essays in Hasidism (Academic Studies Press, 2019)

Kadya Molodovsky, A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg’s Journal (Indiana University Press, 2019), translated by Anita Noric

Pamela S. Nadell, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today (W.W. Norton, 2019)

David Novak, Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature (University of Toronto Press, 2019)

Saul M. Olyan: Violent Rituals of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Jonathan D. Sarna, AMERICAN JUDAISM: A HISTORY Second Edition (Yale University Press, 2019)

Naomi Seidman, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Dimitry Shumsky, Jonatan Meir, and Gershon Hundert, eds., ‘Am ve-‘Olam: Shai le-Yisrael Bartal (Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2019)

David Sorkin, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2019)

David Stern, Jewish Literary Cultures: The Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019)

Cora Wilburn: Cosella Wayne Or, Will and Destiny,  Jonathan D. Sarna ed. (University of Alabama Press, 2019)

Elliot R Wolfson Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiēsis (Indiana University Press, 2019)