Essential papers on Jewish studies (New York
University Press)
Individual volumes:
Michael Chernick, The Talmud(1994)
Jeremy Cohen (ed.) Judaism and Christianity in Conflict(1991)
Naomi Cohen, Jewish–Christian Relations in the United States(1991)
Lawrence Fine, Kabbalah(2000)
Frederick E. Greenspahn, Israel and the Ancient Near East(1991)
Gershon Hundert, Hasidism(1991)
Ezra Mendelsohn, Jews and the Left(1997)
Jehuda Reinharz and Anita Shapira, Zionism(1995)
David Ruderman, Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy(1992)
Marc Saperstein (ed.), Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History(1992)
The ancient world
Shaye J. D. Cohen, The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties(University of
California Press, 1991)
David Weiss Halivni, Revelation Restored: Divine Writ And Critical Responses(Westview, 1998)
——, Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis(Oxford University
Press, 1998)
W. Lee Humphreys, Crisis and Story: Introduction to the Old Testament(McGraw-Hill, 1990)
Lee Levine, The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years(Yale University Press, 2005)
Alan Segal, Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World(Harvard University
Press, 1986)
Lawrence Shiffman, From Text to Tradition: A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic
Times(Ktav, 1991)
Islam and Medieval Christendom
Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe(Princeton
University Press, 2007)
Marc Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages(Princeton University Press,
2008)
Kenneth Stow, Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe(Harvard University Press,
1998)
The early modern period
Dean Bell, Jews in the Early Modern World(Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
Elisheva Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies
(Columbia University Press, 1990)
J. H. Chajes, Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism(University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2003)
Jacob Katz, Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages(Syracuse University
Press, 2000)
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