Debra Kaplan Associate Professor of Jewish History Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Chair Yeshiva University Belfer Hall 546 2495 Amsterdam Avenue 212-960-5400, ext 6866 New York, NY 10033 dkaplan1@yu.edu http://www.yu.edu/faculty/pages/kaplan-debra http://yeshiva.academia.edu/debrakaplan Education University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D., Department of History, December 2003 Dissertation: Negotiating Boundaries: Jewish-Christian Interactions in Strasbourg, 1450-1648 Advisors: Thomas Max Safley, David B. Ruderman MA, Department of History, 1998 Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY B.A., History with Honors, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May 1997 Academic Appointments Yeshiva University (2005-present; tenured in 2011) Associate Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University, 2011 Associate Chair for Jewish History, Beren Department of Jewish Studies, Yeshiva College, 2010 Core Faculty Member, Bernard Revel Graduate School, 2009 Dr. Pinkhos Churgin Memorial Chair in Jewish History, 2007 Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University, 2005
Debra Kaplan CV 2 Queens College, City University of New York (2002-2005) Rose and Morris Danzig Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, 2004-2005 Instructor, 2002-2004 University of Pennsylvania (2003-2004) Lecturer, Department of History Wurzweiler School of Social Work (2003-2004) Instructor, Jewish Studies Certificate Program Publications Books Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, Stanford University Press, 2011. Reviewed by: Elisheva Baumgarten, American Historical Review 117, 4 (2012): 1310-1311. Joel Harrington, Renaissance Quarterly 65, 1 (2012): 260-261. Milton Kooistra, Renaissance and Reformation 105 (2012): 203-206 Dean Philip Bell, H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews, https://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=33911 Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, Cardozo Law School, Review Panel: Law and Identity in Comparative Perspective: Panel Discussion of Debra Kaplan s Beyond Expulsion, April 21, 2013 A Hebrew translation of Beyond Expulsion has been accepted for publication by Merkaz Zalman Shazar. Articles in Refereed Journals To Immerse their Wives : Communal Identity and the Kahalishe Mikveh of Altona, AJS Review, 36, 2 (2012): 257-279. Sharing Conversations: A Jewish Polemic Against Martin Luther, Archiv für Reformationgeschichte, 103 (2012): 41-63. Jews in Early Modern Europe: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, History Compass 10/2 (2012): 191-206. DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2011.00821.x Women and Worth: Female Access to Property in Early Modern Urban Jewish Communities, Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 55 (2010): 93-113. Out of the (Historiographic) Ghetto: European Jews and Reformation Narratives [with Magda Teter], Sixteenth Century Journal 40, 2 (2009): 365-393.
Debra Kaplan CV 3 The Self in Social Context: Asher ha-levi of Reichshofen s Sefer Zikhronot, Jewish Quarterly Review, 97, 2 (2007): 210-236. Creating Community in Rural Alsace Early Modern Jewish Life after the Urban Expulsions, Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 2 (2004): 59-73. Chapters in Anthologies/Collected Volumes (* denotes peer-reviewed contributions) * Adopt This Person [who is] So Totally Born Again : Elias Schadeus and the Conversion of the Jews, in Festschrift for David Ruderman, ed. Richard I. Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann, Elhanan Reiner, and Adam Shear, forthcoming 2014. [accepted] * Because Our Wives Trade and Do Business with Our Goods : Gender, Work, and Jewish- Christian Relations, in New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations: In Honor of David Berger, ed. E. Carlebach and J.J. Schacter (Brill, 2012), 241-261. * Confessionalization and the Jews: Impacts and Parallels in the City of Strasbourg, in Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800, ed. Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen and Franz A. J. Szabo (Berghahn Books, 2011), 137-152. * Writing History, Defining Community: The Construction of Historical Space in Josel of Rosheim s Chronicle, in Räume des Selbst. Selbstzeugnisforschung transkulturell, ed. Andreas Bähr, Peter Burschel, Gabriele Jancke (Bohlau, 2007), 97-109. Conflict and Collaboration: Alsatian Jews and Questions of Authority as seen through Processes of the Reichskammergericht in the Sixteenth Century [German], in Juden im Recht. Neue Zugänge zur Rechtsgeschichte der Juden im Alten Reich, Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 39, ed. A. Gotzmann and S. Wendehorst (Duncker &Humblot, 2007), 333-346. Book Reviews David Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, in Jewish History (2013). Published online 12 March 2013 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2fs10835-012-9175-1 Christopher Close, The Negotiated Reformation: Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525-1550, in Renaissance Quarterly 63, 2 (2010): 668-669. Jay Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 and Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism, in Jewish Quarterly Review 98, 4 (2008): 559-565. Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe, in Tradition 40, 2 (2007): 93-101. Online Annotated Translations (available on www.earlymodern.org) The Mikvaot of Seventeenth-Century Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck Yair Bacharach, Havot Yair responsa nos. 66 and 73 Excerpts, Asher of Reichshofen, Sefer Zikhronot
Debra Kaplan CV 4 Excerpts, Archives Municipales de Strasbourg, Archives Communales de Haguenau Excerpts, Elias Schadeus, Mysterium: Das ist Geheimnis S. Pauli Rom. am II Bekherung der Juden als gelegt und geprediget zu Strassburg Munster, (Strasbourg, 1592) Current Projects Submitted Article: Rural Jewry As Seen Through the Lens of Rabbinic Responsa: The Example of Yair Hayyim Bacharach, to a conference volume from Trier, on Juden und ländliche Gesellschaft. In-progress Book project: Charity and Community in Early Modern Ashkenaz (awarded a grant from HBI) New edition and annotated English translation of the memoirs of Asher of Reichshofen (ongoing) Books Reviews for AJS Review, American Historical Review, Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations Research and Publication Grants NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Stipend, 2013 Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Award, 2012 Dr. Kenneth Chelst Book Grant, Fall 2010 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Prize, American Historical Association, 2005 Fritz Halbers Fellow, Leo Baeck Institute/Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, 2000 Awards and Fellowships North American Scholars Circle, Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, 2010-2011 Yad Ha-Nadiv/Beracha Foundation Fellowship, 2008-2009 Lillian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year Award, Yeshiva University, 2006-2007 Rose and Morris Danzig Post-Doctoral Appointment in Jewish Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, 2004-2005 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, 2002-2003 Visiting Fellow/Assistant Professor, Einstein Forum, Potsdam and Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur V. an der Universität Leipzig, Summer 2002 Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 1998-2002
Debra Kaplan CV 5 Professional Service Advisory Boards and Selection Committees Selection Committee, Ephraim Urbach Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013 Academic Advisory Council, Center for Jewish History, New York, 2009-present Selection Committee, Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Program, Center for Jewish History, New York, 2010-2012 Advisory Board, Early Modern Workshop, 2005-present Liaison, Yeshiva University Museum and University Faculty, 2009-present Conferences and Programs Organized Organizer [with Judah Galinsky, Bar Ilan University] History of Jewish Giving, Center for Jewish History, New York, October 2012 Organizer, Jews in Early Modern Europe: A Day-to-Day Perspective, Center for Jewish History, New York, May 2012 Faculty Mentor, Messianism through the Ages, International Conference run by students from the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program, Yeshiva University, April 2011 Organizer, Law: Continuity and Change, Fifth Annual Early Modern Workshop, Yeshiva University, August 2008 Organizer, Program for Majors/Minors in Jewish Studies, 2011; 2008 Founder and Organizer, Jewish Studies Faculty Colloquium, Yeshiva University, 2005-2006 Supervision and Advising Doctoral Exam Committee, Jesse Abelman, Bernard Revel Graduate School, 2012-2013 Outside Reader, Doctoral Dissertation, David Horowitz, Columbia University, 2010 Mentor for graduate students at Bernard Revel Graduate School, 2009-present Mentor, first year undergraduates, Yeshiva College, 2010-present Director, Independent Senior Research, Yeshiva College (2 semesters), 2006-2007 Outside Reader, Senior thesis, Yeshiva College, 2010 Director, Senior thesis, Queens College, 2005
Debra Kaplan CV 6 University Committees Elected Member, Divisional Committee in Jewish Studies (tenure and promotion committee), 2012-present Appointed Member, University-wide Presidential Task Force on Jewish Studies, 2012-2013 Appointed Member, University-wide Grievance Committee for Disabilities Services, 2012- present Executive Committee, Jewish Studies (governs Jewish Studies at Yeshiva College), 2010-2011 Departmental Committee to Revise Jewish Studies Undergraduate General Education Requirements, 2012-2013 Elected Member of Yeshiva College Academic Standards Committee, 2007-2012 Member, Committee to Revise the Major in Jewish Studies, 2009-present Member, Assessment of First Year Writing Program, 2011 Member, Yeshiva College Curriculum Review, First Year Task Force, 2006-2008 Member, Yeshiva College Committee on Professionalism and Boundaries, 2008 Member, Website Committee for Jewish Studies Department, 2007-2008 Miscellaneous Consultant, Jewish National and University Library, manuscript purchase, 2010 Referee, Jewish Quarterly Review Guest Lecturer, Columbia University, 2008 Professional Affiliations American Historical Association Association for Jewish Studies German Studies Association Sixteenth Century Society and Conference World Union of Jewish Studies
Debra Kaplan CV 7 Courses Taught Undergraduate Courses Medieval Jewish History (632-1500) Modern Jewish History (1500-1933) Europe in the Age of Reformation Jewish Autobiography Jews and Christians: From Early Christianity until Contemporary Times Jews in Early Modern Europe (1450-1800) Popular Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1200-1800) Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in the Western World (1200-1900) [honors writing seminar] Graduate Courses Charity and the Jewish Community Historical Methods [doctoral seminar] Jewish Women, Gender and Family (1000-1800) Major Concepts in Jewish Cultural History Medieval Jewish Family Print Culture and the Jews (1450-1800) Selected Scholarly Presentations Connecting Individuals and Communities: Seventeenth-century Donations from the Holy Roman Empire to the Holy Land, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Chicago, December 2012 Coercion and the Communal Chest: Funding Early Modern Jewish Communities, History of Jewish Giving, Center for Jewish History, New York, October 2012 Rural Jewish Life and Its Religious Challenges: Examples from the Responsa of R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach, Jews and Rural Society, Arye Maimon-Institut für Geschichte der Juden, Universität Trier, March 2012 The Pursuit of Hebraica: How Words Bridged and Broke Jewish-Protestant Relations in the Reformation City, German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, September 2011
Debra Kaplan CV 8 I Listened to a Jew Give the Following Report: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Era Hebraism, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Montreal, October 2010 Regulating Communal Space: The Mikvaot of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck, Seventh Annual Early Modern Workshop, Wesleyan University, August 2010 Sharing Scripture? Jews, Christians, and The Protestant Reformation, Was There a Golden Age of Christian-Jewish Relations?, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning of Boston College, April 2010 The Home: An Overlapping Sphere for Jews and Christians?, World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, August 2009 Jewish Women s Economic Activities, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, July 2009 Hannah and Her Children: A Jewish Family s Resistance to Expulsion, Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar, Duke University, March 2008 Jews in the Archives: Constructing a Social History of the Jews of Early Modern Alsace, Faculty Colloquium, Yeshiva College, March 2007 Jewish Women and Economic Encounters with Christians, Jews and Early Modern Social and Family Structures, Wesleyan University, August 2006 Confessionalization and the Jews, Religion and Authority in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Center for Austrian Studies and Wirth Institute, Minneapolis, April 2006 Writing History, Defining Community: The Example of Josel of Rosheim, Spacing the Self: Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective, Free University, Berlin, March 2006 The Thirty Years War and the Rural Jews of Alsace, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Washington D.C., December 2005 Strasbourg s Economic Contract with Rural Alsatian Jewry, Jews and Urban Spaces: Second Annual Workshop on Early Modern Jewish History, University of Maryland, August 2005 Address to the Graduates, Jewish Studies Graduation and Award Assembly, Queens College, New York, May 2005 Medieval and Early Modern Christian Reflections of Jewish Rituals, Annual Danzig Lecture, Queens College, New York, April 2005 Elias Schadeus: An Early Modern Attempt to Convert the Jews, Faculty Colloquium, Queens College, New York, November 2004 The Jews of Alsace between the Empire and the French Crown: Perceptions of Community [German], Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Life in the South
Debra Kaplan CV 9 of the Holy Roman Empire, Institut für Europäische Kulturgeschichte, Augsburg, October 2004 Conflict and Collaboration: Jews and Questions of Authority as seen through Processes of the Reichskammergericht, Conference on Legal Norms, Legal Praxis and Legal History of the Jews of the Holy Roman Empire, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig, March 2003 The Institutionalization of Christian Hebraism: The Case of the Strasbourg Gymnase, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Los Angeles, December 2002 Jewish-Christian Economic Encounters in Early Modern Strasbourg, 1450-1648, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, October 2002 Negotiating Daily Existence: Jewish Communal and Economic Structures in Early Modern Alsace, Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig, August 2002 Languages French, German, Hebrew, Latin