This study considers violent conflicts and their resolutions within the Jewish communities of Northern France and Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based primarily on Jewish legal sources, it places ...

This dissertation investigates the religious phenomenon of the three images of Torah as a mediator between God and human beings which are manifest in Jewish and Christian sources from the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods ...

Between 1907 and 1913, Judah David Eisenstein (1854–1956), an amateur scholar and entrepreneurial immigrant to New York City, produced the first modern Hebrew encyclopedia, Ozar Yisrael. The Ozar was in part a traditionalist ...

This study seeks to advance the Jewish gender studies field by utilizing halakhic texts concerning the biblical prohibition of cross-dressing as a case study in conceptualizing rabbinic masculinity. We begin by sketching ...

As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, Sol Bloom (1870-1949) was arguably the most powerful Jew in Congress during the Holocaust. To the extent that historians discuss him at all, ...

Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (Ramban) was an influential communal leader, biblical exegete, Jewish philosopher, kabbalist, poet, and halakhist. Ramban contributed extensively and profoundly to the whole range of these disciplines. ...

This dissertation examines attitudes towards scent and smelling in the Babylonian Talmud. I compare material in the Babylonian Talmud to Palestinian Tannaitic and Amoraic texts to determine what is new and unique. The ...