OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Jewish History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Jews “Holding the Keys to the Church” and the Posthumous Career of Zelman Wolfowicz of Drohobych	1
Mapping the Environment: Flooding and Boundaries in Seventeenth-Century Worms	1
Caleb Afendopolo (1455–1523): A Karaite Scholar’s Perception of Jesus and Christianity	1
There’s No Home Like Place: Homogenizing Nostalgia Among Moroccan Jews in Venezuela	1
From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia	1
In-Between Spaces and Temporal Frameworks: The Sabbatian Ma’aminim in the Late Ottoman Era	1
Rescue the Surviving Souls: The Great Jewish Refugee Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. By Adam Teller.	0
The Seleucid Era and Rhythms of Time Consciousness in Modern Jewish Yemen	0
Maimonides, the Reluctant Paytan: A Philosopher Picks Up the Poet’s Pen for Penitence	0
Imagination and History Converge: The Danites in the Middle Ages	0
Bernhard Blechmann’s Body: The “Jewish Race” in Nineteenth-Century Physical Anthropology in Transnational Perspective	0
Between Neighbors and Strangers: Representations of the Indigenous People of America and Construction of Jewish Identity in Early Modern Western Europe	0
In This Land: Jewish Life and Legal Culture in Late Medieval Provence. By Pinchas Roth.	0
Protecting the Image: Was Rav Hayyim of Volozhin’s Portrayal of the Vilna Gaon an Altered Image?	0
Between Borders: The Great Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe. By Tobias Brinkmann.	0
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt. By Oded Zinger.	0
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean. By Yaron Z. Eliav.	0
Social and Educational Consciousness in Twentieth- Century Moroccan Judeo-Arabic Halakhic Literature	0
Remaking a Kabbalist: Manuscript and Print Cultures in Early Modern Italy	0
An Ambivalent Coexistence: Jews and Christians in Late Ottoman Edirne	0
American Jews Face the Ku Klux Klan, 1865–2025	0
Unwanted Children and Invented Families in Early Modern Jewish Communities	0
Ha-im ha-tsiyonut bikshah le-hakim medinat le’om? Ha-dimyon ha-medini ha-tsiyoni mi-Pinsker ’ad Ben-Guryon (1882–1948). By Dmitry Shumsky.	0
International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. By Jaclyn Granick.	0
Conflicted Disciples: Graetz Through the Eyes of Dubnow, Baron, and Scholem	0

“It Requires Privacy”: Sharing a House in Thirteenth-Century Paris	0
Rashi and Ibn Ezra in Naḥmanides’s Early Writing	0
Introduction: Space and Time in the Middle East and North Africa	0
Accusation and Innuendo: Oligarchic Jewish Politics in Fourteenth Century Valencia	0
Of Making Many Books [in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction]: The Ḥatam Sofer on Print, Scholarship, and Knowledge	0
Our Small World: Hebrew Children’s Letters and Modern Upbringing in Czarist Russia	0
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. By Paola Tartakoff.	0
Yiddish in Israel: A History. By Rachel Rojanski.	0
The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust. By Glenn Dynner.	0
The Distinction between Sage and Exilarch in Sassanian Babylonia: The Case of (Rav) Huna bar Natan	0
A Memorandum on Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University, 1926	0
“Dissension Amongst the Community”: Transnational Jewish Philanthropy, the Jewish Emergency Committee, and the Failure to Rebuild ‘Aden’s Jewish Quarter After the 1947 Riots	0
Reconsidering Early Modern Jewry: Reflections on the Methodology of Legal History	0
Yiddish and Social Science at the YIVO Economic-Statistical Section, 1926–1939	0
Population Research and the Modernization of German Jewry	0
Jewish Life in Medieval Spain: A New History. By Jonathan Ray.	0
The Marital Knot: Agunot in the Ashkenazi Realm, 1648–1850. By Noa Shashar.	0
Distant Relatives: Shklov Jews and Their Correspondence with the Ten Tribes from Bukhara	0
A Hebrew Fragment in the Municipal Archive in Münster as a Witness to a Little-Known Ritual Practice	0
Rav Hai Gaon’s Jurisprudential Monograph Kitāb Adab al-Qaḍā: A Reconstructed Text from the Cairo Genizah	0
No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe. By Rowan Dorin.	0
Rabbinic Agency in the Age of Print: Manuscript, Print, and the Epistemology of Crisis	0
“Burning Villages”: Leo Katz’s Novels on the 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt and the Question of Antisemitism	0
Out of Sight and Out of Sync: Space and Time in Israeli Immigrant Transit Camps	0
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum. By Jeffrey Shandler.	0
Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism. By Elizabeth E. Imber.	0
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust. By Ari Joskowicz.	0
La povertà degli ebrei: Voci dal ghetto. By Luciano Allegra.	0
Sense of Place and Aging in the Local-Oral Histories of Veteran Uneducated Mizrahi Women from Beersheva	0
A Rabbinical Critique of Colonial Space-Time in Algeria	0
Where Did Rav and Shmuel Preside? Lingering Institutional Assumptions in the Study of the Late Antique Rabbis	0
Becoming a Cold Warrior: The Peregrinations of a Soviet Jewish Defector	0
Where to Turn? How One Italian Rabbi Understood Ashkenaz, ca. 1600	0
Manuscript Marginalia in a Fourteenth-Century Torah Commentary and the History of Jewish Reading: Ephraim ben Shabbetai on Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets	0
The Jewish South: An American History. By Shari Rabin.	0
Tabling Codification of Jewish Law: Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Ventures	0
Praying in French in the Nineteenth Century: Religion and Identity	0
Sacred Sororities: Devotion and Death in Early Modern Jewish Communities	0