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My work, exploring problems of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, is
unified by an attempt to see Jewish life unfolding against the backdrop
of social forces that were often mystified and sometimes repelled by the
Jewish presence. It concentrates on moments of interaction and mutual
cultural negotiation and extends to internal institutional growth, including
the institution of the family and problems of gender, as well as of legal
accommodation.
Apart from the selected list of books and essays below, I am most proud
of my work as founder and editor of the periodical Jewish History, founded
over fifteen years ago, and which now appears three times annually, published
by Kluwer Academic Publishers, perhaps the leading house for scholarly
journals. In Jewish History, articles have appeared whose authors range
from scholars beginning their careers to distinguished luminaries, whose
home is Israel, the United States, and Europe. Articles may be submitted
to me electronically.
Books
Theater
of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century.
University of Washington Press: Seattle, 2001, 260 pages.
The Jews in Rome, vols. 1 and 2. Brill, Leiden, 1995, 1997. 411 pages,
and 540 pages.
Alienated Minority: The Jews
of Medieval Latin Europe. Harvard, Cambridge, 1992. 346 pages (revised
paperback version, 1994), (Hebrew version, Mercaz Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem,
1997)
The Jews, A Mediterranean Culture. Schena, for the Community of Mediterranean
Universities, Bari, 1994. 151 pages.
Solomon Grayzel: The Church
and the Jews in the Thirteenth Century, Volume II, edited and arranged,
with additional notes, by K.R. Stow. Jewish Theological Seminary, New
York - Wayne State University Press, 1989. 357 pages.
The 1007 Anonymous and Papal Sovereignty: Jewish Perceptions of the
Papacy and Papal Policy in the Middle Ages. Hebrew Union College Annual
Supplements, no. 4. Cincinnati, 1984. 91 pages
Taxation, Community and State: The Jews and the Fiscal Foundations of
the Early Modern Papal State. Vol. 19 of Paepste und Papsttum, ed. G.
Denzler. Stuttgart, 1982. 192 pages.
Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy, 1555-1593. New York, 1977.
411 pages.
Editor
Jewish History: A
Journal of Jewish Historical Studies Haifa University Press & E.J.
Brill, Leiden, then, University Press of New England Vols. I-XIII, June,
1986-August, 1999; Kluwer Academic Publisher, vol. 14, and onward.
Articles
and Chapters in Books
"Conversion,
Apostasy, and Apprehensiveness: Emicho of Flonheim and the Fear of Jews
in the Twelfth Century," Speculum, 76 (2001): 211-33.
"The Knotty Problem
of Yom Tov Soporto," Italia, 13-15 (2001): 137-51, in Memory of
Josef Sermoneta, 2001.
"The New Fashioned From
the Old: Parallels in Public and Learned Memory and Practice in Sixteenth
Century Jewish Rome," Memory and Identity, The Jews of Italy, ed.
B. D. Cooperman and B. Garvin. University Press of Maryland, 2001
"Gli ebrei di Roma," with Anna Foa, in Storia d'Italia, Annali
vol. XIV, ed. A. Prosperi and L. Fiorani, Einaudi: Turin, 2000.
"The Catholic Church
and the Jews," Antisemitism in the Renaissance," and "The
Jewish Community in the Renaissance (with Anna Foa), Encyclopedia of
the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler, Scribners': New York, 1999.
"The Church and the
Jews in the Thirteenth Century," New Cambridge Medieval History
(The Thirteenth Century). ed. David Abulafia. Cambridge, 1999. Vol.
5, pp. 204-220.
"Corporate Double Talk:
Kehillat Kodesh and Universitas in the Roman Jewish Sixteenth Century
Environment," The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 8 (1999):
283-301.
"Marriages are Made
in Heaven: Marriage and the Individual in the Roman Jewish Ghetto,"
Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 452-91.
"Sanctity and the Construction of Space: The Roman Ghetto as Sacred
Space," Jewish Assimilation, Acculturation and Accommodation. ed.,
M. Mor. Lanham, Md., 1992. pp. 54-76.
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