Fields
Medieval and early modern Jewish cultural and intellectual history, history of the Jewish book and the impact of print on Jewish culture and thought in the early modern period, the cultural role of Jewish philosophy in the formation of early modern Jewish identities, Jewish thought and intellectual culture in early modern Italy, the Jewish Enlightenment movement and its relation to the medieval and early modern Jewish past.
Education & Training
- PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
Representative Publications
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, coedited with (HUCP/Pitt Press, 2014).
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy, coedited with Joseph R. Hacker. Jewish Culture and Contexts series, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
The Kuzari and the Shaping of Jewish Identity, 1167-1900, Cambridge University Press, 2008. Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award, Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award in Scholarship, and the 2008 Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best First Book in Intellectual History, awarded by the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Digital Humanities
Footprints, co-compiled with Michelle Chesner, Marjorie Lehmann, and Josh Teplitsky, launch of a long-term digital humanities project that focuses on the circulation of Hebraica and Judaica in early modern Europe and the Middle East.