Welcome
As a scholar of Jewish history and of early modern religious and cultural history, I teach a broad variety of courses in Jewish history, early modern European history, and religious and cultural history of the pre-modern era. In my research I specialize in Jewish-Christian relations.
My book, Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland: A Beleaguered Church in the Post Reformation Era, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, integrates Jews into religious history of the post-Reformation Catholic Church in Poland and challenges the perception that the Catholic Church triumphed in Poland by demonstrates the superficiality of the re-Catholicization of the ruling elites, whose economic interests trumped their religious loyalties.
My work has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Koret Foundation, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation (Israel), among others. In 2002, I was a Harry Starr Fellow at Harvard University. In the academic year 2007-2008, I was an Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.
I direct the Early Modern Workshop project, an online resource for scholars and students of early modern history and Jewish studies (at http://www.earlymodern.org), which was supported by the Mellon Foundation, Library of Congress, University of Maryland, and Yeshiva University, and in 2009 also the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.