Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry

Research output

Research output per year 2011 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025

• 3440 Citations
• 26 h-index
• 270 Article
• 198 Chapter
• 81 Book
• 76 Review article
• 81 More
  • 31 Paper
  • 12 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 12 Foreword/postscript
  • 9 Other contribution
  • 5 Editorial
  • 3 Book/Film/Article review
  • 2 Conference contribution
  • 2 Book/Film/Article/Arts review
  • 2 Letter
  • 1 Report
  • 1 Short survey
  • 1 Special issue

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Halakhic Text and Historical Context: the Attitude of the Sages to Greco-Roman Culture from the Second to the Fourth Century

  Friedheim, E., 2025, Compendia Rerum Ludaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. den Dulk, M., Schwartz, J., Tomson, P. & Verheyden, J. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 272-298 27 p. (Compendia Rerum Ludaicarum ad Novum Testamentum; vol. 18).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2024

  Holocaust heroines: Definitions and dilemmas

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 29 Nov 2024, Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide. p. 17-29 13 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Introduction: Women's holocaust heroism

  Weintrob, L. R. & Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 29 Nov 2024, Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide. p. 1-13 13 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• THE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF ZIONISM

  Conforti, Y., 1 Jan 2024, Routledge Handbook on Zionism. p. 239-251 13 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Urban Aesthetics in Jewish Religious Law: Thoughts on the Role of Jewish Law in Urban Planning

  Flint Ashery, S. & Katz, Y., 2024, Urban Book Series. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 185-205 21 p. (Urban Book Series; vol. Part F2839).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • urban planning 100%
  • esthetics 98%
  • aesthetics 87%
  • planning 59%
  • Law 50%
• 2023

  Abraham Isaac Kook (1865- 1935): Biblical Ethics as the Basis of Rav Kook’s A Vision of Vegetarianism and Peace

  Breier, I., 1 Jan 2023, Animal Theologians. Oxford University Press, p. 273-293 21 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Biblical Ethics 100%
  • Vegetarianism 83%
  • Peace 68%
  • Animals 58%
  • Human Animal 43%

• CREATING SECOND GENERATION GROUPS IN THE USA AND ISRAEL: A Four-decade Perspective

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 1 Jan 2023, Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Descendants of Holocaust Survivors. p. 7-19 13 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Holocaust 100%
  • Holocaust Survivors 77%
  • Israel 67%
  • Descendant 57%
  • Survivors 35%

• Introduction: Haredim and Israel, haredim in Israel, Israeli haredim

  Caplan, K. & Leon, N., 29 Sep 2023, Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends, and Challenges. p. 1-31 31 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• הרועה העושק והמשורר שקם להושיע: לתולדות הקראים באלכסנדריה בתקופה הממלוכית

  ארד, ד., 2023, שמעו כי נגידים אדבר : עיונים בתופעת המנהיגות בקהילות ישראל בימי הביניים. אילן, נ., בן ששון, מ., בן-שמאי, ח. & פרנקל, מ. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 47-68 22 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ילדי זרים בישראל: התנגשות בין גישות אידיאולוגיות בהיעדר מדיניות הגירה סדורה.

  Translated title of the contribution: Foreign children in Israel: a clash between ideological approaches in the absence of an orderly immigration policy.ברדא, י., זילברשץ, י. & גרוס, ז., 2023, ספר יעקב נאמן. ברק, א. & גליקסברג, ד. (eds.). צפרירים, p. 663-712 50 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ראשי הקהל ורשות הקהל: קווים לדמותה של שכבה חברתית באשכנז בימי הביניים

  באומגרטן, א., 2023, שמעו כי נגידים אדבר : עיונים בתופעת המנהיגות בקהילות ישראל בימי הביניים. אילן, נ., בן ששון, מ., בן-שמאי, ח. & פרנקל, מ. (eds.). ירושלים, p. 69-87 19 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2022

  Animals in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Law Codes

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 105-130 26 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Animals 100%
  • animal 81%
  • code 77%
  • criminal law 64%
  • Watchmen 53%

• Conclusion

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 241-246 6 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Babylonia 100%
  • human-animal relations 84%
  • concentrating 62%
  • Millennium 47%
  • animal 45%

• Fauna in Ancient Sumerian Proverbs: The Role Animals Played in Shaping Southern Mesopotamian Social Norms and Conventions

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 19-49 31 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • imitation 100%
  • Social Conventions 95%
  • Saying 85%
  • Fauna 84%
  • Proverbs 81%

• Human-Animal Relations in Biblical Narrative and Historiography

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 131-173 43 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • animal ethics 100%
  • human-animal relations 94%
  • Human-animal Relations 91%
  • Biblical Narrative 77%
  • historiography 73%

• Human-Animal Relations in Classical Prophecy

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 175-205 31 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • human-animal relations 100%
  • prophecy 96%
  • Human-animal Relations 96%
  • Prophecy 69%
  • Animals 65%

• Human Relations with the Animal Kingdom in Mesopotamian Literary Genres

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 67-103 37 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • interpersonal relationships 100%
  • human relations 84%
  • Literary Genres 72%
  • Animals 69%
  • genre 62%

• Integrating National Consciousness into the Study of Jewish History.

  Conforti, Y., 2022, Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship: Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders. Albert, A. O., Gerber, N. & Meyer, M. (eds.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 137 - 155, 232-238 (Jewish Culture and Contexts).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Introduction

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 1-18 18 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • ethics 100%
  • animal ethics 60%
  • human-animal relations 57%
  • moral philosophy 56%
  • Human-animal Relations 55%

• Martin Luther and the Reformation

  Kaplan, D., 1 Jan 2022, The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism. Cambridge University Press, p. 273-290 18 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Martin Luther 100%
  • Reformation 77%
  • Pope Leo X 67%
  • Theological Controversy 62%
  • Religious Roots 62%

• Sumerian Faunal Fables: Talking Animals and Educational Lessons

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 51-65 15 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Fable 100%
  • Animals 89%
  • animal 72%
  • Education 54%
  • Millennium 50%

• The four species in pre-modern Europe: views from East and West

  Kaplan, D. & Fram, E., Jan 2022, Be Fruitful!: The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History. Klein, W., Liberman Mintz, S. & Teplitsky, J. (eds.). Jerusalem, p. 97-120 24 p.

  Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• The Genesis of Idumea

  Levin, Y., 2022, About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period. Benedikt, H., Ben Zvi, E. & Edelman, D. V. (eds.). Equinox Publishing Ltd, p. 80-98 19 p. (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Genesis 100%
  • Edomites 98%
  • Persian Period 84%
  • Written Sources 63%
  • Iron Age 63%

• The Place and Role of Animals in the Psalms and Biblical Wisdom Literature

  Breier, I., 2022, Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Springer Nature, p. 207-240 34 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Wisdom Literature 100%
  • literature 96%
  • god 74%
  • Psalms 74%
  • Animals 68%

• בין השואה למצדה: על מסע היסטורי שטרם נשלם

  פרידהיים, ע., 2022, חוקרים זוכרים. תידור באומל-שוורץ, י. & רפאל, ש. (eds.). ראשון לציון, p. 246-255

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• בין סמל שטני לבת שיח: הרפורמה היהודית ורבני הציונות הדתית

  פרזיגר, א., 2022, התנועה הרפורמית בישראל: מבטים על זהות ועל קהילה. בן לולו, א. & שיף, ע. (eds.). שדה בוקר, p. 139-161 23 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• בראשית היה אושווויץ

  באומל-שורץ, י., 2022, חוקרים זוכרים: צאצאים לשורדי שואה בחזית המחקר. תידור באומל-שוורץ, י. & רפאל, ש. (eds.). ראשון לציון, p. 86-99 14 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• מבוא: מתצפתים שהם המתוצפתים

  באומל-שורץ, י. & רפאל, ש., 2022, חוקרים זוכרים: צאצאים לשורדי שואה בחזית המחקר. באומל-שורץ, י. & רפאל, ש. (eds.). ראשון לציון, p. 13-26 14 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2021

  A Lifelong Journey to My Homeland

  Baumel Schwartz, J., 2021, Goodbye America: Fifty Years of American Jewish Women's Aliyah 1967-2017. Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, J. & Getzoff Schoenfeld, B. (eds.). Bern

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Amalek, Saul and David: The Role of the Amalekites in the Deuteronomistic History of the Early Monarchy

  Levin, Y., 2021, Collective Memory and Collective Identity: Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomistic History in Their Context. Unsok Ro, J. & Edelman, D. (eds.). p. 105-120 16 p. (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; vol. 534).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Appointment deed of a cantor in the Karaite community, Cairo (1575)

  Arad, D., 2021, A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic. Wagner, E. M. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 155-160 6 p. (Semitic Languages and Cultures; vol. 9).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

• Between the Shoah and Masada - An Unfulfilled Historical Journey

  Friedheim, E., 1 Jan 2021, Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies. p. 333-341 9 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Holocaust 100%
  • Masada 87%
  • Shoah 68%
  • Journey 43%
  • Holocaust Survivors 35%

• Courtship and Ritual

  Kaplan, D., 1 Jan 2021, A Cultural History of Marriage: In the Renaissance and Early Modern Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 19-34 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• How Can Rabbinic Narratives Talk History?

  Schremer, A., 2021, Social History of the Jews in Antiquity: Studies in Dialogue with Albert Baumgarten. Bar-Asher Siegal, M. & Ben-Dov, J. (eds.). Tübingen, p. 267-298 (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; vol. 185).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Individual and Communal Holocaust Commemoration in Israel

  Baumel Schwartz, J., 2021, Erzählweisen des Sagbaren und Unsagbaren: Formen des Holocaust-Gedenkens in schweizerischen und transnationalen Perspektiven. Azaryahu, M., Gehring, U., Picard, J., Späti, C. & Meyer, F. (eds.). Wien, p. 121-131 12 p. (Erinnerungsräume).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• In the Beginning There Was Auschwitz

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 1 Jan 2021, Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies. p. 107-119 13 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Introduction

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 30 Dec 2021, The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community. p. 27-36 10 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Jewish Women in Early Modern Central Europe, 1500-1800

  Kaplan, D. & Carlebach, E., 2021, Jewish Women's History From Antiquity to the Present. Francesconi, F. & Winer, R. L. (eds.). p. 169-192 24 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• My life in lists

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 30 Dec 2021, The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community. p. 153-168 16 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Quelques remarques concernant la Halakha philonienne face aux conceptions halakhiques judéennes de son temps

  Friedheim, E., 2021, Les études philoniennes: Regards sur cinquante ans de recherche (1967-2017). Morlet, S. & Munnich, O. (eds.). p. 256-271 16 p. (Studies in Philo of Alexandria; vol. 13).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Rediscovering Childhood Roots: Jacob Katz’s Re-Engagement With Hungary - Implications for Academic Jewish Studies

  Ferziger, A. S., 2021, Always Hungarian: Hungarian Jewry through the Vicissitudes of the Modern Era. Miron, G., Spitzer, S. & Szalai, A. (eds.). Ramat Gan, p. 191-203 13 p. (Community and heritage).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Resisting Obliteration: Learning about the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women During the Holocaust

  Baumel-Schwartz, J., 1 Jan 2021, Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 63-76 14 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Saving Jews in Buchenwald and Auschwitz: The story of Chaskel Tydor

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 1 Apr 2021, All Our Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews during the Holocaust. p. 271-287 17 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• WOMEN DEFYING HITLER: AN INTRODUCTION

  Stoltzfus, N., Paldiel, M. & Baumel-Schwartz, J., 1 Jan 2021, Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 1-14 14 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• הרב יואל משה טייטלבוים (1887-1979): מציאות, דימוי וזיכרון היסטורי

  קפלן, ק., 2021, עבר מתעתע. חטינה, מ. & גרשוני, י. (eds.). תל אביב, p. 443-486 44 p. (סדרת נהדה - עיונים בהיסטוריה המודרנית של המזרח התיכון).

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• השיבה לארץ העברים

  שרביט, י., 2021, קול התור: ציונות מסורתית-ספרדית. טובול, א. (ed.). ראשון לציון, p. 313-323 11 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• מבשר הציונות? כי"ח והלאומיות היהודית הדתית בחזונו של חכם אליהו בכור חזן

  הראל, י., 2021, ההיסטוריה הארוכה של המזרחים: כיוונים חדשים בחקר יהודי ארצות האסלאם. מורנו, א., גרבר, נ., מאיר-גליצנשטיין, א. & שיף, ע. (eds.). קריית שדה בוקר, p. 450-466 17 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• “I Didn’t Choose to be a Second Generation”

  Gross, Z., 1 Jan 2021, Researchers Remember: Research as an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, a Collected Volume of Academic Autobiographies. p. 161-172 12 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• 2020

  "And Who Even Knows What It Is?": The Role of Reform in the Rulings of Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin

  Ferziger, A. S., 2020, In the Dwelling of a Sage Lie Precious Treasures: Essays in Jewish Studies in Honor of Shnayer Z. Leiman. Berger, Y. & Milikowsky, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NY, p. 323-340

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• "How will they ever take you seriously if you write about veibers?!"

  Baumel-Schwartz, J. T., 2 Mar 2020, Her Story, My Story?: Writing About Women and the Holocaust. p. 61-72 12 p.

  Bar-Ilan University

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review