OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Jewish History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Home and Away: The Opposition to Travel in Sefer Ḥasidim	2
West and East in Ashkenaz in the Time of Judah he-Ḥasid	1
The Conflation of Judaism and Islam in Hernando de Talavera’s Conversion Plan	1
Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities	1
The Architecture of Gender: Women in the Eastern European Synagogue	1
Maḥzor Vitry: A Study of Liturgical-Halakhic Compendia from Medieval Franco-Germany	1
The Impact of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz in Northern France: The Evidence of Sefer Ḥasidut and Ḥayyei ‘Olam	1
The Misadventures of Luis Méndez Chávez and the Origins of the Sephardic Colonization Movement	1
Introduction: Cultural and Religious Boundary-Crossing in Early Modern Spain	1
Introduction: Sefer Ḥasidim—Book, Context, and Afterlife	1
Suspicion and Evidence: Manuscript Sources of the Hermeneutic Gates of German Pietism	1
The Jew Is to Be Burned: A Turning Point in the Communist Approach to the “Jewish Question” on the Eve of Catastrophe	1
Isaac Sasportas, the 1799 Slave Conspiracy in Jamaica, and Sephardic Ties to the Haitian Revolution	1
Conversos, Moriscos, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Spain: Some Reflections on Jewish Exceptionalism	1
Judah he-Ḥasid and the Tosafists of Northern France	1
The Importance of Agriculture in Medieval Jewish Life: The Case of Crete	0
Sages of Spain in the Eye of the Storm: Jewish Scholars of Late Medieval Spain [in Hebrew]. By Yoel Marciano.	0
Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. By Adam Teller.	0
Reading Against the Grain, Readings of Substitution: Catholic Books as Inspiration for Judaism in Early Modern Iberia	0
Composing Arugat ha-Bosem: How Piyyut Commentary Became Associated with Ḥasidei Ashkenaz	0
The Dreyfus Affair’s Forgotten Hero: Bernard Lazare and the First Modern Fight against Antisemitism	0
Menasseh ben Israel’s Thesouro dos Dinim: Reeducating the New Jews	0
Jews “Holding the Keys to the Church” and the Posthumous Career of Zelman Wolfowicz of Drohobych	0
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice. By Dana E. Katz.	0
From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia	0

“Burning Villages”: Leo Katz’s Novels on the 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt and the Question of Antisemitism	0
The Wars in Eastern Europe, the Jews of Jerusalem, and the Rise of Sabbateanism: The Shaping of the Jewish World in the Mid-Seventeenth Century	0
Praying in French in the Nineteenth Century: Religion and Identity	0
Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880). By George Y. Kohler.	0
Distant Relatives: Shklov Jews and Their Correspondence with the Ten Tribes from Bukhara	0
A Hebrew Fragment in the Municipal Archive in Münster as a Witness to a Little-Known Ritual Practice	0
The Distinction between Sage and Exilarch in Sassanian Babylonia: The Case of (Rav) Huna bar Natan	0
Swaying in Three Directions: Ilya Galant in Russian/Ukrainian-Jewish Historiography	0
Who Was a Ḥasid or Ḥasidah in Medieval Ashkenaz? Reassessing the Social Implications of a Term	0
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean. By Yaron Z. Eliav.	0
Where Did Rav and Shmuel Preside? Lingering Institutional Assumptions in the Study of the Late Antique Rabbis	0
Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe	0
The Emancipation of Slaves and the Auto-Emancipation of the Jews: The Impact of the American Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery on the Precursors of Zionism	0
When the Rabbi’s Soul Entered a Pig: Melchiorre Palontrotti and His Giudiata against the Jews of Rome	0
Law and Spirituality in Jewish History: On the Contribution of Isadore (Yitzḥak) Twersky	0
Old Prophesies, Multiple Modernities: The Stormy Afterlife of a Medieval Pietist in Early Modern Ashkenaz	0
Assessing the Manuscripts of Sefer Ḥasidim	0
A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, “Shevet Yehudah,” and the Jewish-Christian Encounter. By Jeremy Cohen.	0
The Hatam Sofer and the Land of Israel	0
Our Small World: Hebrew Children’s Letters and Modern Upbringing in Czarist Russia	0
Conflicted Disciples: Graetz Through the Eyes of Dubnow, Baron, and Scholem	0
In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence. By Pinchas Roth.	0
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. By Jaclyn Granick.	0
The Lord’s Justice: Blood Libel, Legalism, and Neighborly Negotiation in an Eighteenth-Century Private Town	0
“Jewish Political Circles Denounce Every Kind of Terror?” Jewish Media Response to Kristallnacht in Japanese-Controlled Harbin	0
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History. By Jonathan Ray.	0
La povertà degli ebrei: Voci dal ghetto. By Luciano Allegra.	0
Population Research and the Modernization of German Jewry	0
Failure That Matters: Two Abortive Agreements and the Dynamics of Orthodox Jewish Politics on the Eve of World War II	0
Was Judah he-Ḥasid the “Author” of Sefer Ḥasidim?	0
Major Trends in the Historiography of European Ashkenazic Jews from the 1970s to the Present	0
Apostasy, Conversion, and Marriage: Rabbi Jacob Tam’s Ruling Permitting the Marriage of a Female Apostate	0
Towers and Lions? Identifying the Patron of a Medieval Illuminated Maḥzor from Cologne	0
A Sage of the Golden Age of Safed: Rabbi Moses Najara	0
Entangled Discourses of Dissent in Early Modern Spain	0
The Jews of Provence and Languedoc: Renaissance in the Shadow of the Church [in Hebrew]. By Ram Ben-Shalom.	0
Yiddish in Israel: A History. By Rachel Rojanski.	0
Imitator of the Old Law/Advocate of Revealed Grace: Visualizing Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Regensburg	0
Where to Turn? How One Italian Rabbi Understood Ashkenaz, ca. 1600	0
Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?	0
The Latin Inscription of Rabbi Jacob of Mérida: Dating and Contextualization	0
Rav Hai Gaon’s Jurisprudential Monograph Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā: A Reconstructed Text from the Cairo Genizah	0
Imagination and History Converge: The Danites in the Middle Ages	0
Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings	0
Manuscript Marginalia in a Fourteenth-Century Torah Commentary and the History of Jewish Reading: Ephraim ben Shabbetai on Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets	0
Walking the Even Tenor of Our Ways: Liberty and Tradition in Isaac Leeser’s Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights	0
The Conversos of Valencia: Prosopography of a Socio-Religious Community (1391–1420)	0
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. By Ari Joskowicz.	0
Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy	0
Accusation and Innuendo: Oligarchic Jewish Politics in Fourteenth Century Valencia	0

“Polishing” the Jewish Masses: Personal Hygiene, Public Health, and Jews in Fin de Siècle Warsaw	0
Jews, Economic Metaphors, and the Healthy Body Politic: The Jewish Role in Christian Economic Narratives and the Birth of Modern Economics	0
Yiddish and Social Science at the YIVO Economic-Statistical Section, 1926–1939	0
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. By Paola Tartakoff.	0