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Director, The Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany

Prof. Debra Kaplan

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debra.kaplan@biu.ac.il
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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Name:  Debra Kaplan

E-mail address: debra.kaplan@biu.ac.il

 

HIGHER EDUCATION

 

  • 2003 Ph.D., Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • 1998 MA, in the doctoral track, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • 1997 BA, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, summa cum laude, History degree with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

 

  • 2023-present, The Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany
  • 2019-present, Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Jewish History
  • 2019-2023, Director, Halpern Center for the Study of Jewish Self-Perception, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2014-2019, Senior Lecturer with tenure, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Jewish History
  • 2011-2014, Associate Professor with tenure, Yeshiva University
  • 2009, Core Faculty Member, Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University
  • 2007, Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Chair in Jewish History
  • 2005-2011, Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Department of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University
  • 2004-2005, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of History and Jewish Studies Program, Queens College, CUNY
  • 2003-2004, Instructor, Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Jewish Studies Certificate Program
  • 2003-2004, Full-time Lecturer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2002-2004, Instructor, Department of History, Queens College, CUNY
  • 1998-1999, Teaching Assistant Liaison, University of Pennsylvania Department of History
  • 1997-2000, Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

 

RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

  • 2023-2027, Israel Science Foundation grant for Women, Gender and Early Modern European Synagogues, c. 1460-1800
  • 2022, Rosl und Paul Arnsberg-Preis, Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft (Frankfurt am Main), for The Patrons and their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
  • 2022, GIF Grant for Young Scientists’ Workshop in Speyer and Alsace, together with Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University), Christoph Cluse and Lukas Clemens (Universität Trier)
  • 2018-2022, Israel Science Foundation grant for Mapping Daily Life in Early Modern Ashkenaz
  • 2018-2019, Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
  • 2018, Outstanding Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2015-2018, Israel Science Foundation grant for Charity and Community in Ashkenaz
  • 2013, NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend
  • 2013, Adjunct Fellow, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Fall)
  • 2012, Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Award
  • 2010-2011, North American Scholars Circle, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America
  • 2008-2009, Yad Ha-Nadiv/Beracha Foundation Fellowship
  • 2006-2007, Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year Award, Yeshiva University
  • 2005, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Prize, American Historical Association
  • 2004-2005, Rose and Morris Danzig Post-Doctoral Appointment in Jewish Studies at Queens College, City University of New York
  • 2002-2003, Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, 2002-2003
  • 2002, Visiting Fellow/Assistant Professor, Einstein Forum, Potsdam and Simon-Dubnow- Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur (Leipzig)
  • 2000, Fritz Halbers Fellow, Leo Baeck Institute/Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst
  • 1998-2002, Jacob K. Javits Fellow                                                                                                         

 

ADVISORY BOARDS

 

  • 2019-present Board of Directors, Historical Society of Israel
  • 2018-present Board of Directors, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
  • 2023-present, International Advisory Board, "Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne -- Raum, Form, Inschrift," (Digital stone Witnesses: German-Jewish sepulchral culture between the Middle Ages and modernity - space, form, inscription), funded by the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
  • 2017-present International Advisory Board, Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  • 2021-present Advisory Board, SION-Digit (Funded by Rothschild Foundation)
  • 2013-2018 Advisory Board, The Pinkassim Project
  • 2009-2014 Academic Advisory Council, Center for Jewish History, New York
  • 2009-2014 Liaison between Yeshiva University Museum and University Faculty
  • 2005-2014 Advisory Board, Early Modern Workshop

 

EDITORAL BOARDS

 

  • 2016-present Hiddushim

 

REFEREE/CONSULTANT

 

Over the past several years I have served as a referee/consultant for the following institutions, journals and presses: AJS Review, American Academy of Berlin, Ars Judaica, Brandeis University Press, Brill, Cambridge University Press, Central European History, German Studies Quarterly, Chiddushim, Israel Historical Society, Israel Science Foundation, Jewish Law Association, Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Social Studies, Leo Baeck Institute, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Merkaz Zalman Shazar, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, National Library of Israel, Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, Princeton University Press, Scholion – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Studia Rosenthaliana, Tel Aviv University, Yale University Press, Zion

 

SELECTED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (selected, last five years)

 

  • 2024, “Jewish Communal Archives and the Social History of the Early Modern Kehillah,” National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
  • 2024, “Spatial Hierarchies in Early Modern Jewish-German Communities” Tel-Aviv University
  • 2024, “Excommunication within the Community: The Importance of Space in Early Modern Jewish Communities in Germany,” Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2023, Keynote Address: “From Manuscript to Map: Space and Status in Early Modern Ashkenazic Communities,” Histoires des juifs, portraits urbains: Au-delà du renvoi géographique dans l’Europe prérévolutionnaire, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
  • 2023, “Beyond the Judengasse: Mapping as an Historical Tool,” Ben-Gurion University
  • 2022, "Inscribed with a Bronze and Lead Pen:" Jewish Communal Documents and the Theology of Memory in Early Modern Europe, Fourth Annual Liss Lecture in Judaica, University of Notre Dame
  • 2022, Synagogue Seats and the Economy of Early Modern Jewish Communities, World Economic History Conference, Paris
  • 2022, Between Center and Periphery: Everyday Travel and Jewish Communal Life in Early Modern Germany, Early Modern Workshop
  • 2021, Jews Crossing Borders: Examples from Worms and the Electoral Palatinate, Arye Maimon Institut, Universität Trier
  • 2020, Communal Etrogim, Social Status and Social Discipline in Early Modern European Jewish Communities, The Saga of the Citron: Historical and Global Perspectives, Historical Society of Israel and Brandeis University
  • 2019, Jewish and Christian Neighbors in a City without Jews: Expulsions and Beyond in Strasbourg, Jews and Christians in the Medieval City: Art, Archaeology and Traces of the Past, Fordham University
  • 2019, Jewish Communities in Premodern Alsace, The Colmar Treasure, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 2019, Demography, Social Status and Charity in the Jewish Community of Early Modern Frankfurt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • 2019, Documentation and Early Modern Jewish Legal Culture, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
  • 2019, Intersecting Authorities: Jews in the Bishopric of Speyer, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem
  • 2019, Differentiating among the Poor in Frankfurt‘s Judengasse, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2019, Women, Gender and Poverty, Machon Schechter, Jerusalem

 

ORGANIZATION OF PROGRAMS, SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS

 

  • 2024, Co-Director, Workshop for Young Scholars, Jewish Communal Registers and Records:
    Reading Early Modern and Modern Jewish Texts, Society and Culture, National Library of Israel
  • 2024, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of the Israel Historical Society, History and Communication, Open University
  • 2024, Annual Lecture of the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany: Crisis and Tradition: Jewish Life After Epidemic in Early Modern Europe, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2023, GIF Workshop for Young Scientists, Connecting Individuals and Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Ashkenaz, Speyer and Alsace

 

  • 2023, Organizer of Workshop of the Halpern Center:  new Perspectives on Modern Jewish History: Artistic, Social and Gendered Perceptions, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2023, Organizing Committee, A New Era - Europe in an Age of Change: Conference in honor of Shmuel Feiner, Bar-Ilan University  
  • 2023, Organizing Committee, Journeys to Jewish Cultures: Conference in honor of David Malkiel, Bar-Ilan University  
  • 2022, Gender, Migration, Dislocation: The Second Annual Bar-Ilan - Tel Aviv Workshop on Jewish Social History
  • 2021, Organizing Committee, Humankind and the Environment: Nature, the Senses and Culture, Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Israel, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2021, The Second Annual Bar-Ilan - Tel Aviv Workshop on Jewish Social History
  • 2021, Research Group in Ritual and Space in Jewish Communities, 1200-1800, Halpern Center, Bar-Ilan University
  • 2020-21, Program for Outstanding BA Students in Jewish History, Halpern Center Bar-Ilan University
  • 2019, Organizing Committee, Travel in German Lands, Braun Chair in German-Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University 
  • 2018, Organizing Committee, My Dear Fromet! Letter Writing in German-Speaking Lands, Braun Chair in German-Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University 
  • 2017-2020, Organizing Committee, Forum Ashkenaz
  • 2017-2018, Organizing Committee, Early Modern Workshop on Space and Identity
  • 2017, Organizing Committee, Annual Conference of Israeli Historical Society, Charity and Care for Others
  • 2017, Member, Interdisciplinary Research Group, Bar-Ilan University, Marriage and Divorce Across Jewish Societies (with upcoming meetings and a conference)
  • 2017, Member, Committee for Early Modern History in Israel Historical Society
  • 2017, Co-Facilitator [with Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University] Institute for Advanced Studies, Israel Historical Society, ERC Beyond the Elite, Graduate Student Workshop on Gender and Medieval Europe with Professor Katherine French
  • 2016, Member, Organizing Committee of 500 Years of Reformation. Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem
  • 2012, [with Judah Galinsky] History of Jewish Giving, Center for Jewish History, New York
  • 2012, Jews in Early Modern Europe:  A Day-to-Day Perspective, Center for Jewish History, New York     
  • 2011, Faculty Mentor, Messianism through the Ages, International Conference run by students from the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, Yeshiva University
  • 2008, 2011 Initiated and headed program for Majors/Minors in Jewish Studies
  • 2008, Law: Continuity and Change, Fifth Annual Early Modern Workshop, Yeshiva University
  • 2005-2006, Founder and Organizer, Jewish Studies Faculty Colloquium, Yeshiva University

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

American Historical Association; Association for Jewish Studies; Israel Historical Society; Sixteenth Century Studies; World Union of Jewish Studies

 

LANGUAGES

 

English and Hebrew (reading, writing, speaking); French (reading, speaking, some writing); German (reading, proficient speaking); Latin (reading); Yiddish (early modern Western -- reading) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

מחקר

Research Interests

1) Early modern Europe

2) Jewish-Christian relations in medieval and early modern Europe

3) Protestant Reformation

4) Autobiography

5) social history 

פרסומים

 

Prof. Debra Kaplan- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 

Books

               

  1. Debra Kaplan, The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Awarded the Rosl und Paul Arnsberg-Preis.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Strasbourg: Yehudim, Notzrim, Reformatziah.  Trans. Lahad Lazar. Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2016. [Hebrew translation of Beyond Expulsion]

 

Books: Accepted for Publication

 

  1. With Elisheva Carlebach, Hiding in Plain Sight: A New History of Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe, Princeton University Press, forthcoming.

 

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Wine, Power and Honor in Late Medieval and Early Modern Worms,” Chiddushim, forthcoming 2025. [Hebrew]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Urban History on the Seam: Frankfurt’s Judengasse and the Early Modern City,” Journal of Urban History (2004): 1-22.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Between Regulations and Emotion: Burying and Mourning Children in Early Modern Ashkenaz,” Jewish Social Studies 29, 1 (2004): 1-31.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Intersecting Authorities: The Early Modern Legal System of the Jewish Community in the Bishopric of Speyer,” Chiddushim 25, 1 (2023): 49–84. [Hebrew]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, “Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities,” Jewish History 36 (2022): 297-336.

 

  1. Verena Kasper-Marienberg and Debra Kaplan, “Nourishing a Community: Food, Hospitality and Jewish Communal Spaces in Early Modern Frankfurt,” AJS Review 45, 2 (2021): 305-333.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “‘Holy Households’: Women and Patriarchy in the Wake of the Protestant Reformation,” Zmanim 140 (2019): 48-60. [Hebrew]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Crossing Borders: Safe Conducts and Jews in Early Modern Germany,” Jewish Quarterly Review 108, 3 (2018): 316-349.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Entangled Negotiations: Josel of Rosheim and the Peasants’ Rebellion of 1525,” AJS Review 40, 1 (2016): 125-143.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Rituals of Marriage and Communal Prestige: The Breileft in Medieval and Early Modern Germany,” Jewish History 29 (2015): 273-300.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Transactions financières entre Juifs et chrétiens dans l’Alsace du XVIe siècle,” Archives Juives 47, 2 (2014): 29-46.

 

  1.  Debra Kaplan, “‘To Immerse their Wives’: Communal Identity and the ‘Kahalishe’ Mikveh of Altona,” AJS Review 36, 2 (2012): 257-279.

 

  1.  Debra Kaplan, “Sharing Conversations: A Jewish Polemic Against Martin Luther,” Archiv für Reformationgeschichte 103 (2012): 41-63.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Jews in Early Modern Europe: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” History Compass 10, 2 (2012): 191-206.  

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Women and Worth: Female Access to Property in Early Modern Urban Jewish Communities,” Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 55 (2010): 93-113.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Magda Teter, “Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: European Jews and Reformation Narratives,” Sixteenth Century Journal 40, 2 (2009): 365-393. 

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “The Self in Social Context: Asher ha-Levi of Reichshofen’s Sefer Zikhronot,” Jewish Quarterly Review 97, 2 (2007): 210-236.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Creating Community in Rural Alsace – Early Modern Jewish Life after the Urban Expulsions,” Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 2 (2004): 59-73.

 

Articles in Anthologies

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Poverty and Gender,” in A Cultural History of Poverty at the Dawn of the World Economy, ed. Nicholas Terpstra, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Le judaïsme alsacien, du Saint Empire au royaume de France,” in Histoire Juive de la France, ed. Sylvie Anne Goldberg, Albin Michel, 2023, 307-315.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early Modern and Modern Europe,” in Facing the Truths of History: Essays on Reception and Memory in Honor of Jacob J. Schacter, ed. Zev Eleff and Shaul Seidler-Feller, Academic Studies Press, 2023, 401-420.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Martin Luther and the Reformation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism, ed. Steven T. Katz, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 274-290.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Edward Fram, “The Four Species in Pre-Modern Europe: Views from East and West,” in Be Fruitful!: The Etrog in Jewish Culture, Art, and History, ed. Joshua Teplitsky, Sharon Mintz, and Warren Klein, Mineged Press, 2022, 97-120.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, “Jewish Women in Early Modern Central Europe,” in Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Federica Francesconi and Rebecca L. Winer, Wayne State University Press, 2021, 169-192.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Courtship and Ritual,” in A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age, ed. Joanne Ferraro, Bloomsbury, 2019, 19-34.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “‘The Poor of Your City Come First’: Jewish Ritual and the Itinerant Poor in Early Modern Germany,” in Connecting Histories: Jews and their Others in Early Modern Europe, ed. David B. Ruderman and Francesca Bregoli, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 39-48.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Living Spaces, Communal Places: Early Modern Jewish Homes and Religious Devotions,” in Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, ed. Alessia Meneghin and Marco Faini, Brill, 2018, 315-333.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Rural Jewry As Seen Through the Lens of Rabbinic Responsa: The Case of R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach,” in Juden und ländliche Gesselschaft in Europa zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (15.-17. Jahrhundert). Kontinuität und Krise, Inklusion und Exklusion in einer Zeit des Übergands, ed. Sigrid Hirbodian und Torben Stretz, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, 215-231.  

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “‘Adopt This Person [who is] So Totally Born Again’: Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews,” in Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe:  Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, ed. Richard I. Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann, Elhanan Reiner, and Adam Shear, Hebrew Union College Press, 2014, 193-104.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “‘Because Our Wives Trade and Do Business with Our Goods’: Gender, Work, and Jewish-Christian Relations, in New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations:  In Honor of David Berger, ed. E. Carlebach and J.J. Schacter, Brill, 2012, 241-261.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of Strasbourg,” in Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800, ed. Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo, Berghahn Books, 2011, 137-152.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Writing History, Defining Community: The Construction of Historical Space in Josel of Rosheim’s Chronicle,” in Räume des Selbst. Selbstzeugnisforschung transkulturell, ed. Andreas Bähr, Peter Burschel, Gabriele Jancke, Bohlau, 2007, 97-109.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Conflict and Collaboration: Alsatian Jews and Questions of Authority as seen through Processes of the Reichskammergericht in the Sixteenth Century,” in Juden im Recht. Neue Zugänge zur Rechtsgeschichte der Juden im Alten Reich, Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 39, ed. A. Gotzmann and S. Wendehorst, Duncker & Humblot, 2007, 333-346. [German]

 

Book Reviews

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe,'' in AJS Review 46, 2 (2022): 412-415.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Kenneth Austin, The Jews and the Reformation, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 72, 4 (October 2021): 875-877.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Tamar Herzig, A Convert’s Tale, in American Historical Review 126, 3 (2021): 1331–1332.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Yosef Kaplan, ed., Early Modern Ethic and Religious Communities in Exile, in Historiah 42 (2019): 121-126. [Hebrew]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Yair Mintzker, The Many Deaths of Jud Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew, in AJS Review 43 (2019): 223-226.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Jay R. Berkovitz, Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771–1789, in Zion 82, 1 (2017): 139-143. [Hebrew]     

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Natalie Naimark-Goldberg, Ve-kolan yishama: yehuditot neorot be-Berlin, in Zion 80,4 (2016): 590-594.  [Hebrew]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Stephen G. Burnett, Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660): Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning, in Church History 83, 1 (2014): 194-196.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, in Marginalia Review of Books, http://themarginaliareview.com/archives/4976, December 2013. [selected as Editor’s Picks on www.mosaicmagazine.com]

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Aya Elyada, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany, in AJS Review 37, 2, (2013): 425-427.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Myriam Greilsammer, L’usurier chrétien, un Juif métaphorique? Histoire de l’exclusion des prêteurs lombards (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle), in American Historical Review, 118, 5 (2013): 1586-1587.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Yaacov Deutsch, Judaism in Christian Eyes: Ethnographic Descriptions of Jews and Judaism in Early Modern Europe, in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations (hosted by Boston College, at http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr/.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of David Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, in Jewish History 27, 1 (2013): 101-105. 

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Christopher Close, The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550, in Renaissance Quarterly 63, 2 (2010): 668-669.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “New Perspectives on the Challenges of Modernity in France,” (Review of Jay Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 and Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, The Abbé Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism), in Jewish Quarterly Review 98, 4 (2008): 559-565.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Review of Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe, in Tradition 40, 2 (2007): 93-101.

 

Additional Publications

 

Translated and annotated primary sources, available online

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Joshua Teplitsky, Fluid Boundaries (Excerpts, Juspe Schammes, Sefer Minhagim de K”K Warmaisa; Yair Hayyim Bacharach, Havot Yair, responsa 115; original Hebrew material)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, The Mikvaot of Seventeenth-Century Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek (Excerpts, CAHJP AHW/14; original Hebrew and Yiddish material)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Yair Bacharach, Havot Yair responsa nos. 66 and 73 (original Hebrew)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Excerpts, Asher of Reichshofen, Sefer Zikhronot (original Hebrew)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Excerpts, Archives Municipales de Strasbourg, Archives Communales de Haguenau (original German)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, Excerpts, Elias Schadeus, Mysterium: Das ist Geheimnis S. Pauli Rom. am II Bekherung der Juden als gelegt und geprediget zu Strassburg Munster, (Strasbourg, 1592) (original German)

 

Popular and Public Scholarship

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Personal and Ritual Items in Italy’s Jewish Homes,” in Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Deborah Howard, and Mary Laven. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017, 41-43.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “Haggadah, 1561,” in Madonnas and Miracles: The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy, ed. Maya Corry, Deborah Howard, and Mary Laven. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017, 44-45.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Adam Teller, “An Introduction to Jewish Philanthropy,” Center for Jewish History, 2013. (also used in a museum exhibit by the same title)

 

  1. Debra Kaplan and Aaron Koller, “The Power of an Idea: Gog and Magog from Biblical Figures to Inter-religious Polemics,” in Mitokh Ha-Ohel, Volume Two – The Haftarot: Essays on the Weekly Haftarah Reading from the Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University, ed. Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart Halpern. New York and Jerusalem: Yeshiva University Press and Maggid, 2011, 565-578.

 

  1. Debra Kaplan, “1600-1610.” Zero to Ten, Text for museum exhibit honoring the tenth anniversary of the Center for Jewish History.

 

 

 

Last Updated Date : 05/02/2025