S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, History
Ph.D. 1967, M.A. 1963, Columbia University, Rabbi Jewish Theological Seminary 1962, M.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary 1962, B.H.L. Jewish Theological Seminary 1958, B.A. 1958, Columbia College.

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Research Interests:

Medieval Jewish history

Affiliations:

Executive Committee, American Academy for Jewish Research, President- American Academy for Jewish Research, Chairman- Graduate Fellowship Committee, Wexner Foundation, Board of Directors, Association for Jewish Studies.

Selected Works:

Medieval Jewry in Northern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)

Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages (New York: Behrman House, 1980)

European Jewry and the First Crusade (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)

Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)

Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)

In the Year 1096: The Jews and the First Crusade (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1996)

Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)

God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives, to be published in 2000 by the University of California Press

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