Rethinking European Jewish History
Jeremy Cohen & Moshe Rosman

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The major cultural, ideological, and social changes that occurred in Europe in the past century have generated widespread reassessment of European history in terms of its presuppositions, its methodologies, its directions, its emphases, and its scope. This timely volume looks at the Jewish past in the spirit of this reassessment. It points to a new framework for the study of Jewish history and helps to contextualize it within the mainstream of historical scholarship.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Jeremy Cohen holds the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center between 2002 and 2005. A specialist in the history of Jewish–Christian relations and three times a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, his various publications include The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (1982), Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (1999), and Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (2007).

Moshe Rosman is Professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He has been a Fulbright scholar, an IREX fellow, a fellow of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in History (1996), the Zalman Shazar Prize (2000), the Jerzy Milewski Award (2000), and visiting professor at the University of Michigan and at Solomon University in Kiev. Professor Rosman has conducted extensive archival research in eastern Europe and specializes in integrating Jewish, Polish, and other sources. His previous books include The Lords’ Jews: Jews and Magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov.

CONTRIBUTORS

Ram Ben-Shalom, Miriam Bodian, Jeremy Cohen, Judah M. Cohen, David Engel, Gershon
David Hundert, Paula Hyman, Maud Mandel, David Nirenberg, Moshe Rosman, David B. Ruderman, Daniel Soyer

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Ram Ben-Shalom, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel
Miriam Bodian, Professor of Jewish History, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College, New York
Jeremy Cohen, Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Professor of European Jewish History, University of Tel Aviv
Judah M. Cohen, Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
David Engel, Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History; New York University; Fellow, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, University of Tel Aviv
Gershon David Hundert, Professor of History and Leanor Segal Professor of Jewish Studies, McGill University.
Paula Hyman, Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
Maud Mandel, Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University
David Nirenberg, Professor, Committee on Social Thought and Department of History, University of Chicago
Moshe Rosman, Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
David B. Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and Ella Darivoff Director, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Soyer, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University, New York

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