David B Ruderman

Biographic Data

ID537986
NAMEDavid B Ruderman
GIVEN NAMESDavid B
FAMILY NAMERuderman
SIGNATURERUDERMAN D B
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia University of Pennsylvania
ORCID0000-0003-4652-4582
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Two English Ladies and a Jew from Polotzk

    David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2024

    The essay treats a fascinating aspect in the life of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838), a Polish-Jewish immigrant trained as a copper engraver but also a gifted Hebraist and biblical exegete who lived in London from 1800 until the year of his death. Despite his many intellectual and artistic talents, the elites of Bennett's own community rejected him while he was embraced by an impressive number of powerful cultural and political figures from a…

  • At the Intersection of Cultures

    David B Ruderman, David RudermanCHAPTERGardens and Ghettos2023

  • “A Native of Poland Professing the Arts in London”

    David B RudermanARTICLEEuropean Journal of Jewish Studies2023

    This essay offers a new reconstruction of the fascinating life and works of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838), a Jewish engraver and biblical scholar who emigrated from Belarus via Copenhagen and Berlin to London. While Bennett’s intellectual path might appear similar to several other notable Polish Jewish immigrants to Western Europe, he is quite distinctive for his remarkable coadunation of art and thought, for his unusual focus on biblical s…

  • Martin Goodman. A History of Judaism

    Open AccessDavid B RudermanARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    In A History of Judaism, Martin Goodman readily admits how daunting it is to compose a history of Judaism from its biblical beginnings until the present. He is undoubtedly aware of the long list of historians of the Jewish experience writing in English who have published similar histories with varying success. They include the earlier tomes of Alexander Marx and Max L. Margolis, Solomon Grayzel, Cecil Roth, and Jacob Neusner; the edited volumes o…

  • Moses Margoliouth

    David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2019

    This essay focuses on the life and thought of Moses Margoliouth (1818–1881) one of the most well-known and accomplished converts to Christianity in nineteenth-century England. Associate of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity amongst the Jews, disciple of Alexander McCaul, the learned missionary scholar and critic of rabbinic Judaism, and author of numerous learned tomes on Jewish history and literature in his own right, Margoliou…

  • Robert Frost's ambivalence

    Open AccessKenneth D Madsen, David B RudermanARTICLEPolitical Geography2016References: 30

  • The Blessing of Gerson D. Cohen

    David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2016

    "The Blessing of Assimilation in Jewish History" was surely not Gerson Cohen's most important piece of scholarly writing. Unlike many of his classic academic essays which are still assigned in university course in medieval Jewish history—his insightful overview of the gaonic age; his creative reconstruction of the story of the four captives; or his typological study of the varieties of Jewish messianism, to name only a few—it was meant to be no m…

  • Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe

    David B Ruderman, Richard I Cohen et al.BOOKJewish Culture in Early Modern…2014

  • Early Modern Jewry

    David B RudermanBOOKEarly Modern Jewry2010

    Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of society. Looking at how Jewish settlements in the early modern period were linked to one another in fascinating ways, he shows how Jews were communicat…

  • Three Reviewers and the Academic Style of the Jewish Quarterly Review at Midcentury

    David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2010

    A hundred years is a remarkable lifetime for any journal, especially a scholarly one in English focusing exclusively on Jewish civilization. During this impressive time span a dramatic and radical shift in the character and place of academic Jewish studies in the United States and throughout the world took place. JQR is surely a primary historical source for charting the history of higher Jewish learning in North America and its ultimate entrance…

  • Hotel

    David B RudermanBOOKHotel2007

  • Cultural Intermediaries

    David B Ruderman, Giuseppe Veltri et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2005

  • Greenville Diary

    David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2004

    T H E JE W I S H Q UA R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 2004) 643–665 Greenville Diary A Northern Rabbi Confronts the Deep South, 1966–70 DAVID B . R UDERMAN With the exception of a few of us . . . most rabbis are not Southerners. . . . In addition to having a different outlook, they are, of course, labeled ‘‘Yankees.’’ They are also dreamers, perhaps as unrealistic and romantic in their own right as is the South itself. They want to c…

  • Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key

    Sheila Spector, Sheila S Spector et al.ARTICLEStudies in Romanticism2002

    List of Illustrations viii Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 Chapter One: Scripture Correcting Maniae: Benjamin Kennicott and His Hutchinsonian and Anglo-Jewish Detractors 23 Chapter Two: The New and Metrical English Bible: Robert Lowth and His Jewish Critic, David Levi 57 Chapter Three: Deism and Its Reverberations in English Jewish Thought: Abraham hen Naphtali Tang and Some of His Contemporaries 89 Chapter Four: Between Rational an…

  • Some Jewish Responses to Smallpox Prevention in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

    David B RudermanARTICLEAleph2002

    The reactions of a group of Jewish writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to the practices of inoculation and vaccination are considered. Their discourse on smallpox and its elimination is especially interesting because the subject of scientific and medical authority, by challenging traditional rabbinic opinions and praxis, is an essential dimension of the history of the modernization of European Jewry. The generally positi…

  • Medicine and the German Jews

    David B Ruderman, John M EfronARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2002

  • The Jews of Europe after the Black Death

    David B Ruderman, Anna Foa et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

  • The Jewish past Revisited

    Nils Roemer, David N Myers et al.ARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2001

  • Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key

    David B RudermanBOOKJewish Enlightenment in an…2000

  • On Defining a Jewish Stance toward Newtonianism

    Open AccessDavid B Ruderman, David RudermanARTICLEScience in Context1997

    The Argument The article studies a small Hebrew book called “The Wars of God” composed by an Anglo-Jewish jeweler who lived in London at the end of the eighteenth century. The book is interesting in further documenting the Jewish response to Newtonianism, that amalgam of scientific, political, and religious ideas that pervaded the culture of England and the Continent throughout the century. Hart, while presenting Newton in a favorable light, depa…

  • Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy

    Open AccessDavid B Ruderman, David RudermanARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1996

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  • Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe

    Matt Goldish, David B RudermanARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1995Cited by: 3

  • Preachers of the Italian Ghetto

    Frederick J Mcginne, Frederick J McGinness et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

    Contributors: Robert Bonfil Elliott Horowitz Moshe Idel David B. Ruderman Marc Saperstein Joanna Weinberg

  • Studies on Gersonides

    David B RudermanARTICLEIsis1994

  • L'Hébreu au Temps de la Renaissance

    Open AccessDavid B RudermanARTICLERenaissance Quarterly1993

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