David B. Ruderman

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According to Wikipedia, David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1994 to 2014 he was the Ella Darivoff Director of Penn's Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, where he also held a fellowship from 2017 to 2018. He was trained at the City College of New York, the Teacher's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Columbia University. He earned rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and his doctorate in Jewish History from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prior to taking his position at the University of Pennsylvania, he held teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Maryland.

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David B. Ruderman's Published Works

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Early Modern Jewry (2010) (120)
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (1995) (63)
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History (2010) (61)
Essential papers on Jewish culture in Renaissance and baroque Italy (1993) (33)
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought (2000) (31)
The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol (1982) (26)
The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians (2000) (23)
The Insight of Unbelievers (2017) (23)
Catholic thought and papal Jewry policy, 1555-1593 (1977) (22)
History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua (1979) (22)
Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (1988) (16)
A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel. (1990) (14)
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (2007) (14)
The Founding of a Gemilut asadim Society in Ferrara in 1515 (1976) (13)
Hope against Hope: Jewish and Christian Messianic Expectations in the Late Middle Ages (1991) (13)
Preachers of the Italian Ghetto (1995) (13)
The Italian Renaissance and Jewish Thought (1988) (12)
Cultural Intermediaries: Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (2005) (10)
Historical Consciousness and Religious Tradition in Azariah de' Rossi's Me'or `Einayim. (1989) (9)
Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A New Perspective on the Modernization of European Jewry (2002) (8)
Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy (2017) (7)
Jewish Thought in Newtonian England: The Career and Writings of David Nieto (In Memory of Jacob J. Petuchowski) (1992) (6)
Towards a Preliminary Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: The Many Faces of Alexander McCaul (1799-1863) (2015) (5)
Gli Ebrei a Perugia (1977) (5)
Robert Frost's ambivalence: Borders and boundaries in poetic and political discourse (2016) (4)
Three Contemporary Perceptions of a Polish Wunderkind of the Seventeenth Century (1979) (4)
On Defining a Jewish Stance toward Newtonianism: Eliakim ben Abraham Hart's Wars of the Lord (1997) (3)
Converts of Conviction: Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society (2017) (3)
The Cultural Significance of the Ghetto in Jewish History (1997) (3)
The Breathing Space of Ballad: Tennyson’s Stillborn Poetics (2009) (3)
Cecil Roth, Historian of Italian Jewry: A Reassessment (1998) (3)
The Impact of Science on Jewish Culture and Society in Venice (With Special Reference to Graduates of Padua's Medical School) (1987) (2)
Introduction: Romanticizing Historical Poetics (2018) (2)
A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era (2014) (2)
MISSIONARIES, CONVERTS, AND RABBIS: THE EVANGELICAL ALEXANDER MCCAUL AND JEWISH‐CHRISTIAN DEBATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYDavid B.Ruderman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 203. Hardcover, $44.00. (2020) (2)
The Impact of Early Modern Jewish Thought on the Eighteenth Century: A Challenge to the Notion of the Sephardi Mystique (2007) (2)
The Idea of Infancy in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry: Romanticism, Subjectivity, Form (2019) (2)
Reflecting on American Jewish History (2003) (2)
Kabbalah, magic, and science (1988) (2)
Three. Knowledge Explosion (2010) (2)
Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio's Appearance in Italy as Seen through the Eyes of an Italian Jew* (1975) (2)
Elisheva Carlebach, John M. Efron, and David N. Myers (eds.), Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (2000) (2)
Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key (2018) (2)
Review of Jonathan I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750 (1987) (2)
Jewish Preaching and the Language of Science: The Sermons of Azariah Figo (1992) (1)
Kabbalah and the Subversion of Traditional Jewish Society in Early Modern Europe (1993) (1)
Romantic Childhood, Romantic Heirs: Reproduction and Retrospection, 1820–1850 / British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest (2019) (1)
Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis (2020) (1)
On divine justice, metempsychosis, and purgatory: Ruminations of a sixteenth-century Italian Jew (1986) (1)
Greenville Diary: A Northern Rabbi Confronts the Deep South, 1966-70 (2012) (1)
Breathing space: Infancy and aesthetics in 19-century British poetry and poetics (2008) (1)
Romantic Objects in Coleridge and Erasmus Darwin (2008) (1)
Contemporary science and Jewish law in the eyes of Isaac Lampronti of Ferrara and some of his contemporaries (1992) (1)
Six. Toward Modernity: Some Final Thoughts (2010) (1)
Two. Communal Cohesion (2010) (1)
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews: Source Reader (1984) (1)
Was There an English Parallel to the German Haskalah (1999) (1)
One. Jews on the Move (2010) (1)
“Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit” (2012) (0)
The Divergent Path of Two Brothers: The Jewish Scholar David Cassel and the Protestant Missionary Paulus Cassel (2017) (0)
At the Intersection of Cultures: The Historical Legacy of Italian Jewry Prior to the Emancipation (1989) (0)
Allison P. Coudert. The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614–98). Brill's Series in Jewish Studies. Leiden: Brill, 1999. xx, 418 pp. (2002) (0)
Behind the Best Sellers: A Scholar Revisits an 18th-Century Popular Tone—Reprinted for Centuries—That Mixes Science, Kabbalah and Ethics (2011) (0)
The 12 Covenants of Pinchas Hurwitz: How an 18th-Century Eastern European Kabbalist Jew Produced One of the First Hebrew Bestsellers (2016) (0)
Ivan G. Marcus. Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany. (Études sur le Judaisme Médiéval, number 10). Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1981. Pp. xii, 204. f 78 (1982) (0)
Some Literary and Iconographic Influences of the Renaissance and Baroque on Sefer Gei Hizzayon of Abraham ben Hananiyah Yagel (1988) (0)
The Interval in Coleridge: Meter and Temporality (2021) (0)
Early Modern Jewish History (2012) (0)
Review of Paul Lawrence Rose, Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser (1982) (0)
Rabbi and Teacher (1986) (0)
Medicine and the German Jews: A History (review) (2012) (0)
The Transformations of Judaism (2015) (0)
Tragedy and Transcendence: The Meaning of 1492 for Jewish History (1992) (0)
Stillborn Poetics and Tennyson’s Songs (2016) (0)
3. A Valley of Vision, Part II: The Second Night (1990) (0)
Barry B. Levy. Planets, Potions and Parchments: Scientific Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century . Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 140, illus. ISBN 0-7735-0793-0, £47.45 (hardback); 0-7735-0791-4, £28.45 (paperback). (1992) (0)
Martin Goodman. A History of Judaism. (2019) (0)
Review of Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and His World (1991) (0)
Are Jews the Only True Monotheists? Some Critical Reflections in Jewish Thought from the Renaissance to the Present (2016) (0)
Jerusalem Letters: Vasily Levison’s Ruminations on Faith, Doubt, and Conversion from Judaism to Russian Orthodoxy (2017) (0)
Padua's medical school on its Jewish students but makes an embar- rassing mistake in crediting the Biblical Ecclesiastes rather than the Apocryphal Ecclesiasticus (Ben Sirach) with an aphorism he quotes (2018) (0)
On the Production and Dissemination of a Hebrew Best Seller: Pinḥas Hurwitz and His Mystical-scientific Encyclopedia, Sefer Ha-Brit (2016) (0)
The Hague Dialogues (2012) (0)
ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( History ) Department of History 2012 The Hague Dialogues (2017) (0)
5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe (2017) (0)
Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul’s “Israel Avenged” (2018) (0)
Review of Gad Freudenthal (Ed.), Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist (1994) (0)
Three Anglo-Jewish Portraits and Their Legacy for Today: Moses Marcus, the Convert; Abraham Tang, the Radical Maskil ; David Levi, the Defender of Judaism (2007) (0)
Bibliography of Secondary Works (2010) (0)
Review of Robert Bonfil, The Rabbinate in Renaissance Italy (1980) (0)
When I First Saw the Child (2016) (0)
Jewish Medicine and Science (2000) (0)
Bodies in Dissolve (2016) (0)
Looking Backward and Forward: Rethinking Modernity in the Light of Early Modernity (2017) (0)
Appendix. Historiographical Reflections (2010) (0)
Was There a "Haskalah" in England? Reconsidering an Old Question (1997) (0)
Review of Johann Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah (1984) (0)
Reformers, Missionaries, and Converts: Interactions Between the London Society and Jews in Warsaw in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (2017) (0)
2. A Valley of Vision, Part I: The First Night (1990) (0)
The Blessing of Gerson D. Cohen (2016) (0)
Merging and Emerging in the Work of Sara Coleridge (2016) (0)
Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter-Feb 1976 (1976) (0)
Review of Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy (1996) (0)
Philosophy, Kabbalah and Science in the Culture of the Italian Ghetto: On the Debate between Samson Morpurgo and Aviad Sar Shalom Basilae (1993) (0)
Elisheva Carlebach . Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe . Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xi, 292. $35.00. (2012) (0)
The Jewish Eighteenth Century: A European Biography, 1700–1750 (2021) (0)
Into a new century (2010) (0)
Chapter 4. The Intellectual and Spiritual Journey of Stanislaus Hoga: From Judaism to Christianity to Hebrew Christianity (2020) (0)
Moses Margoliouth: The Precarious Life of a Scholarly Convert (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Sketches of Modern Judaism in McCaul’s Other Writings (2020) (0)
Italian parachute regiment trains at home of Sky Soldiers (2013) (0)
The Academic Study of Judaism: A Challenge to the Reform Rabbi (1989) (0)
Rephrasing the Lyric Subject: Keats’s Dialectical Soul-Making (2018) (0)
Judaism and Enlightenment (review) (2012) (0)
Association for Jewish Studies Newsletter-March 1980 (1980) (0)
Four. Crisis of Rabbinic Authority (2010) (0)
Heritage: Civilization And The Jews: Study Guide (1984) (0)
Book Review:Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist Gad Freudenthal (1994) (0)
Review: Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London (2021) (0)
The Iggeret Orhot Olam of Abraham Farissol in Its Historic Context (1977) (0)
Three Reviewers and the Academic Style of the Jewish Quarterly Review at Midcentury (2010) (0)
Chapter 8. From Vilna to Aleppo: Two Additional Responses to McCaul’s Assault (2020) (0)
Review of John M. Efron, Medicine and the German Jews: A History (2021) (0)
shlomo simonsohn. History of the Jews in the Duchy of Mantua. (Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute, number 17.) New York: KTAV Publishing. 1977. Pp. xvii, 902. $35.00 (1979) (0)
Review of Judah Messer Leon and Issac Rabinowitz, The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow (Sepher Nopheth Suphim) (1985) (0)
The Authors of this Volume (2017) (0)
Chapter 7. The Jewish Response to McCaul: Isaac Baer Levinsohn (2020) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
Review of Yosef Kaplan, From Christianity to Judaism, Jerusalem (1984) (0)
Five. Mingled Identities (2010) (0)
The People and the Book (2014) (0)
Medieval and Modern Jewish History (1995) (0)

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