Notes on Contributors
Judith R. Baskin
is Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities at the University of Oregon. Her books include Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature, and the edited collections Jewish Women in Historical Perspective and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing. The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, co-edited with Kenneth Seeskin, won a 2011 National Jewish Book Award.
Aviva Ben-Ur
is Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she teaches history. She is the author of Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825 (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
Francesca Bregoli
holds the Joseph and Oro Halegua chair in Greek and Sephardic Jewish Studies, and is Associate Professor of History at Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform (Stanford University Press, 2014).
Federica Francesconi
is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research and publications address the social, religious, and cultural aspects of the early modern history of Jews in Italy, focusing on the multifaceted politics and dynamics of ghetto life. Her forthcoming monograph is titled Invisible Enlighteners: Modenese Jewry from Renaissance to Emancipation.
Thomas F. Glick
is Professor of history emeritus at Boston University. He has written extensively on the comparative history of Islamic and Christian Spain, including Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (2nd ed., Brill, 2005) and From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle (Edinburgh, 1995).
Matt Goldish
holds the Samuel M. and Esther Melton Chair in History at The Ohio State University. He is author of Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton, The
Jessica Hammerman
is Assistant Professor of History at Central Oregon Community College, where she teaches courses on European imperialism and the Islamic world. She has published a number of articles about Jews in Algeria during decolonization.
Yaron Harel
is a full professor at the department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University and the vice-chairman of the Israeli Historical Society. He is the author of By Ships of Fire to the West—Changes in Syrian Jewry during the Period of the Ottoman Reforms 1840–1880 (Jerusalem 2003) and Between Intrigue and Revolution—the Appointment and Dismissal of Chief Rabbis in Baghdad, Damascus and Aleppo 1744–1914 (Jerusalem 2007).
Maud Kozodoy
is an independent scholar living in New York. Her research interests include the intersection between medieval Hebrew poetry and medieval Jewish science and medicine. Her publications include “Prefatory Verse and the Reception of the Guide of the Perplexed,” JQR 106.3 (2016): 257–282 and The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus: Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
Renée Levine Melammed
is a professor of Jewish History at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem and is the academic editor of Nashim. She has published Heretics of Daughters of Israel: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile (Oxford, 1999), A Question of Identity: Iberian Conversos in Historical Perspective (Oxford, 2004), and An Ode to Salonika: The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Vivian B. Mann
is Director Emerita of the MA Program in Jewish Art of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Curator Emerita of the Jewish Museum. Her writings focus on medieval art and Jewish art of the medieval and early modern periods. Among them are Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Art & Ceremony in Jewish Life. Essays in Jewish Art History (Pindar Press, 2005).
is the Harold and Jean Grossman Chair in Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of the forthcoming monograph The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press).
Gérard Nahon ז״ל
was Directeur d’Etudes à l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne), Section des Sciences Religieuses. His publications include Inscriptions hébraïques et juives de France médiévale (1986), Métropoles et périphéries séfarades d’Occident: Kairouan, Amsterdam, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Jérusalem (1993), Rashi et la culture juive en France du Nord au moyen âge, coedited with Gilbert Dahan and Elie Nicolas (1997), and Juifs et judaïsme à Bordeaux (2003), Epigraphie et sotériologie: l’épitaphier des «Portugais de Bordeaux» (1728–1768) (2018).
Benjamin Ravid
is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. His publications include Economics and Toleration in Seventeenth Century Venice (1978), and Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797 (2003). He co-edited (with Robert Davis) The Jews of Early Modern Venice (2001), has written over fifty articles on Venetian Jewry and their ghetto, and is currently working on a history of the Jews of Venice to 1797.
Jonathan Ray
is the Samuel Eig Professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006) and After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry (New York: NYU Press, 2013).
Norman Roth
is Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. His publications include Jews, Visigoths & Muslims in Medieval Spain (Leiden, 1994), Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion (Madison, 1995; revised and with new material, paper ed., 2002), The Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages (Westport, Conn., 2005), Dictionary of Iberian Jewish and Converso Authors (Madrid, Salamanca, 2007). In addition he is the editor of Medieval Jewish Civilization. An Encyclopedia.
Daniel J. Schroeter
is the Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota. He is author of The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (Stanford University Press, 2002), and Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844–1886 (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and co-editor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2011).
Brian M. Smollett
is Associate Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is co-editor (with Christian Wiese) of Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience (Brill, 2014).
Norman (Noam) A. Stillman
is the Schusterman/Josey Professor of Judaic History Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma and Founding Director of its Center for Judaic & Israel Studies. His books include: The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book, The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity, The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou, Morocco: An Ethnolinguistic Study. He is the Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World and currently is Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
D.G. Tor
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to numerous articles, her works include the books Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the ʿAyyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World, The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Empires: Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation, and, together with A.C.S. Peacock, Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation.