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Prof. Dr. David B. Ruderman
Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania Humboldt Research Award-Fellow at the Martin-Buber-Chair and the Institute for Jewish Studies (2016–2019, each summer semester) Email: ruderman@sas.upenn.edu |
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Academic Interests
- Interactions between Jewish thought and scientific discoveries in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period
- Jewish culture in Early Modern Europe, especially the Jewish Enlightenment in England
Current Research Project
- Missionaries, Meshummadim [apostates], and Maskilim: An Entangled History of Christians, Jews and Those In Between in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Selected Publications
- A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and its Remarkable Legacy, University of Washington Press (2014)
- Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, Princeton University Press (2010)
- Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, Princeton University Press (2000)
- Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, Yale University Press (1995)
- Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician, Harvard University Press (1988)
- The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol, Hebrew Union College Press (1981)
Selected recent Fellowships and Awards
2016-2019 | Humboldt Research Award-Fellow at the Martin-Buber-Chair and the -Institute for Jewish Studies (each summer semester) |
2015 | First Scholar-in-Residence at the Jewish Historical Society of England |
2015 | Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest |
2014 | Visiting Professor at the Graduiertenkolleg „Theologie als Wissenschaft“, Goethe University, Frankfurt |
2013 | Guest Professor at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary |
2012 | Guest Professor „Wissenschaft und Judentum“ at the ETH Zurich |
2011 | German Transatlantic Program Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin |
For further information on David B. Ruderman and his work, see:
Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe. Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, eds. Richard Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elhanan Reiner, Hebrew Union College Press (2014)
or visit:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/people/faculty/david-b-ruderman