OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia	2
Maḥzor Vitry: A Study of Liturgical-Halakhic Compendia from Medieval Franco-Germany	1
Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities	1
Tabling Codification of Jewish Law: Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Ventures	1
Jews “Holding the Keys to the Church” and the Posthumous Career of Zelman Wolfowicz of Drohobych	1
The Latin Inscription of Rabbi Jacob of Mérida: Dating and Contextualization	1
The Conflation of Judaism and Islam in Hernando de Talavera’s Conversion Plan	1
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History. By Jonathan Ray.	1
Distant Relatives: Shklov Jews and Their Correspondence with the Ten Tribes from Bukhara	1
Conflicted Disciples: Graetz Through the Eyes of Dubnow, Baron, and Scholem	1
Manuscript Marginalia in a Fourteenth-Century Torah Commentary and the History of Jewish Reading: Ephraim ben Shabbetai on Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets	1
American Jews Face the Ku Klux Klan, 1865–2025	1
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. By Ari Joskowicz.	0
La povertà degli ebrei: Voci dal ghetto. By Luciano Allegra.	0
Jews, Economic Metaphors, and the Healthy Body Politic: The Jewish Role in Christian Economic Narratives and the Birth of Modern Economics	0
Introduction: Cultural and Religious Boundary-Crossing in Early Modern Spain	0
Major Trends in the Historiography of European Ashkenazic Jews from the 1970s to the Present	0
A Hebrew Fragment in the Municipal Archive in Münster as a Witness to a Little-Known Ritual Practice	0
Reading Against the Grain, Readings of Substitution: Catholic Books as Inspiration for Judaism in Early Modern Iberia	0
A Memorandum on Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University, 1926	0
An Ambivalent Coexistence: Jews and Christians in Late Ottoman Edirne	0
The Lord’s Justice: Blood Libel, Legalism, and Neighborly Negotiation in an Eighteenth-Century Private Town	0
“Polishing” the Jewish Masses: Personal Hygiene, Public Health, and Jews in Fin de Siècle Warsaw	0
Yiddish and Social Science at the YIVO Economic-Statistical Section, 1926–1939	0
Yiddish in Israel: A History. By Rachel Rojanski.	0

Entangled Discourses of Dissent in Early Modern Spain	0
Bernhard Blechmann’s Body: The “Jewish Race” in Nineteenth-Century Physical Anthropology in Transnational Perspective	0
“It Requires Privacy”: Sharing a House in Thirteenth-Century Paris	0
Where Did Rav and Shmuel Preside? Lingering Institutional Assumptions in the Study of the Late Antique Rabbis	0
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. By Paola Tartakoff.	0
The Misadventures of Luis Méndez Chávez and the Origins of the Sephardic Colonization Movement	0
Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?	0
The Conversos of Valencia: Prosopography of a Socio-Religious Community (1391–1420)	0
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger.	0
A Sage of the Golden Age of Safed: Rabbi Moses Najara	0
The Dreyfus Affair’s Forgotten Hero: Bernard Lazare and the First Modern Fight against Antisemitism	0
The Architecture of Gender: Women in the Eastern European Synagogue	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
“Jewish Political Circles Denounce Every Kind of Terror?” Jewish Media Response to Kristallnacht in Japanese-Controlled Harbin	0
Becoming a Cold Warrior: The Peregrinations of a Soviet Jewish Defector	0
Law and Spirituality in Jewish History: On the Contribution of Isadore (Yitzḥak) Twersky	0
Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe	0
Accusation and Innuendo: Oligarchic Jewish Politics in Fourteenth Century Valencia	0
The Jew Is to Be Burned: A Turning Point in the Communist Approach to the “Jewish Question” on the Eve of Catastrophe	0
Our Small World: Hebrew Children’s Letters and Modern Upbringing in Czarist Russia	0
Imagination and History Converge: The Danites in the Middle Ages	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
Where to Turn? How One Italian Rabbi Understood Ashkenaz, ca. 1600	0
Rabbi Isaac of Rus’ and His Esoteric Teachings	0
Praying in French in the Nineteenth Century: Religion and Identity	0
Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. By Adam Teller.	0
Population Research and the Modernization of German Jewry	0
Reconsidering Early Modern Jewry: Reflections on the Methodology of Legal History	0
Rav Hai Gaon’s Jurisprudential Monograph Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā: A Reconstructed Text from the Cairo Genizah	0
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. By Jaclyn Granick.	0
“Dissension Amongst the Community”: Transnational Jewish Philanthropy, the Jewish Emergency Committee, and the Failure to Rebuild ‘Aden’s Jewish Quarter After the 1947 Riots	0
Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy	0
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean. By Yaron Z. Eliav.	0
Social and Educational Consciousness in Twentieth- Century Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Halakhic Literature	0
Conversos, Moriscos, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Spain: Some Reflections on Jewish Exceptionalism	0
“Burning Villages”: Leo Katz’s Novels on the 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt and the Question of Antisemitism	0
In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence. By Pinchas Roth.	0