Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

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Prof. Ephraim (Effie) Shoham-Steiner (b. 1968) is Chair of the Jewish History Dept. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a historian specializing in Medieval Jewish History. He is an associate professor at the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er-Shevah Israel (BGU). Between 2018-21 he served as the head of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSOC) at BGU. His research focuses on the social aspects of Jewish history with a special interest in social information that can be extracted from rabbinic source material from medieval Western Europe. His first book published originally in Hebrew titled: חריגים בעל כורחם: משוגעים ומצורעים בחברה היהודית באירופה בימי הביניים (מרכז שז"ר: ירושלים 2007) was published in English: On the Margins of a Minority (Wayne State University Press: Detroit 2014). He edited a collected essays volume titled: Intricate Interfaith Networks: Quotidian Jewish Christian Contacts in the Middle Ages (History of Daily Life 5-Brepols; Turnhout 2016). His second book is titled: Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Wayne State University Press; Detroit 2020). He is currently researching the medieval Jewish community of Cologne aided by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF Grant No. 2405/19 2019-2024)

Work

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Education

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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PhD

Publications

Revisiting the Murder of the Jew Priscus in Sixth-Century Paris

The Medieval History Journal

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Revisiting the Murder of the Jew Priscus in Sixth-Century Paris

Medieval History Journal

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Rabbi Gershom of Mainz and the Fairs of Medieval Cologne

Avraham Grossman on the Cultural Dynamic of Medieval Jewish History and Thought

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The Writing on the Wall- A Mahzor A Bimah and a Privilege

Perception and Awareness: Artefacts and Imageries in Medieval European Jewish Cultures (Medieval Identities : Socio-Cultural Spaces Vol. 11)

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“THIS MAY BRING ABOUT MANY EVILS”: THE JEWISH MINORITY COMMUNITY IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE FACING ITS OWN THIEVES

A Companion to Crime and Deviance in the Middle Ages

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Clinging to a Jewish Saint in a Time of Growing Turmoil: Appropriating the Figure of Rabbi Judah the Pious in Late Fifteenth-Century Jewish Folktales from Regensburg

Medieval Encounters

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Clinging to a Jewish Saint in a Time of Growing Turmoil: Appropriating the Figure of Rabbi Judah the Pious in Late Fifteenth-Century Jewish Folktales from Regensburg

Medieval Encounters

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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

Wayne State University Press

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Sefer Hasidim-Book, Context, and Afterlife

Jewish History

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Beyond the Rabbinic Paradigm

Jewish Quarterly Review

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Beyond the Rabbinic Paradigm

Jewish Quarterly Review, The

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Criminal Cooperation between Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe

Medieval Ashkenaz: Papers held at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Honor of Alfred Haverkamp

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Towers and Lions? Identifying the Patron of a Medieval Illuminated Maḥzor from Cologne

Jewish History

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Towers and Lions? Identifying the Patron of a Medieval Illuminated Mahzor from Cologne

Jewish History

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'And in most of their business transactions they rely on this':

On the Word of a Jew: Religion Reliability and the Dynamics of Trust

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THE SOURCES

Cambridge History of Judaism, Vol Vi: the Middle Ages: the Christian World

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Exile, Immigration and Piety: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany, from the Rhineland to the Danube

Jewish Studies Quarterly

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Exile, Immigration and Piety: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany, from the Rhineland to the Danube

Jewish Studies Quarterly

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Burial ad sanctos for a Jewish Murderer? Alexander Wimpfen and Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg

Jewish Studies Quarterly

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Intricate Interfaith Networks in the Middle Ages

Brepols

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The Clash over Synagogue Decorations in Medieval Cologne

Jewish History

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On the Margin of a Minority

Wayne State University Press

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Making a Living in Early Medieval Ashkenaz

Jüdische Kultur in dem SchUM Städten

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"VITAM FINIVIT INFELICEM": MADNESS, CONVERSION, AND ADOLESCENT SUICIDE AMONG JEWS IN LATE TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

Jews in Medieval Christendom: Slay Them Not

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THE VIRGIN MARY, MIRIAM, AND JEWISH REACTIONS TO MARIAN DEVOTION IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

AJS Review

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Jews and Healing at Medieval Saints' Shrines: Participation, Polemics, and Shared Cultures

Harvard Theological Review

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Jews and Healing at Medieval Saints' Shrines: Participation, Polemics, and Shared Cultures

Harvard Theological Review

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Pharaoh's bloodbath Medieval European Jewish thoughts about leprosy, disease, and blood therapy

Jewish Blood: Reality and Metaphor in History, Religion, and Culture

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חריגים בעל כורחם

מרכז זלמן שז"ר

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The Humble Sage and the Wandering Madman: Madness and Madmen in an Exemplum from Sefer Hasidim

Jewish Quarterly Review, The

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The Humble Sage and the Wandering Madman: Madness and Madmen in an Exemplum from Sefer Hasidim

Jewish Quarterly Review

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“For a prayer in that place would be most welcome”: Jews, Holy Shrines, and Miracles—A New Approach

Viator - Medieval and Renaissance Studies

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An ultimate pariah? Jewish social attitudes toward Jewish lepers in Medieval western Europe

Social Research

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