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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.

 

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

 

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

 

Books: Accepted for Publication

 

4. 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

8. 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]

 

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

 

10. 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

22. 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

 

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

 

24. 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.

 

25. 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.

 

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

 

27. 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.

 

28. 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.

 

29. 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.

 

30. 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.

 

31. 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.

 

32. 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.  

 

33. 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.

 

34. 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.

 

35. 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.

 

36. 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.

 

37. 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

42. 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.

 

43. 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]     

 

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

 

45. 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.

 

46. 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]

 

47. 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.

 

48. 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.

 

49. 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/.

 

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

 

51. 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.

 

52. 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.

 

53. 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

 

54. 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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

59. 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

 

60. 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.

 

61. 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.

 

62. 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)

 

63. 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.

 

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