Articles

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Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews and the Reformation (with Debra Kaplan), Sixteenth Century Studies (2009)

Existing historiography has created a historiographic ghetto, seldom considering Jewish sources and Jews as relevant...

 

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Apostasy, Fraud and the Beginnings of Hebrew Printing in Cracow (with Edward Fram), AJS Review (2006)

The article investigates the mysterious history of three Jewish brothers who began a Jewish press...

 

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The Legend of Ger Zedek (Righteous Convert) of Wilno as Polemic and Reassurance, AJS Review (2005)

The article analyzes the popular legend of a righteous convert to Judaism in eighteenth-century Wilno...

 

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Matai nosad ha-defus ha-`ivri be-Qraqov? [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?] (with Edward Fram), Gal-`Ed (2005)

The article challenges the common assumption that the first Hebrew book printed in Poland was...

 

Books

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Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation (2011)

My book, Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation tells a story of...

 

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Social and Cultural Boundaries in Pre-Modern Poland (with Adam Teller and Antony Polonsky) (2010)

Boundaries—physical, political, social, religious, and cultural—were a key feature of life in medieval and early...

 

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Jews and Catholics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era (2006)

My first book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post...

 

Contributions to Books

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Sacrilegi e spazi sacri e profane: Ebrei e cristiani in Polonia d’età moderna, Brotherhood and Boundaries: Fraternià e barriere (2011)

As late as the 1926, and perhaps even up to the eve of World War...

 

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Crime and Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Poland, Kommunikation durch symbolische Akte. Religiöse Heterogenität und politische Herrschaft in Polen-Litauen (2010)

This principle of intersection between action and sacredness was shared by both Jews and Christians....

 

Popular Press

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Putting "Blood Libel" in Historical Context, Harvard University Press Blog (2011)

When Sarah Palin used the term “blood libel” in response to the shooting in Arizona...

 

Other

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Review of Michael Ostling, Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. Oxford University Press, 2011, for Polin/American Association for Polish Jewish Studies (2013)

Witches and witchcraft have fascinated not only the people of the premodern era, but also...