Natalie Zemon Davis

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Tablet A Dictionary on Trial 14 Mar 2023
This text discusses a trial that took place in 1895, where Nicolae Iorga, a Romanian politician and scholar, was denied naturalization. The trial was influen...
14 Mar 2023
Tablet Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy 24 Oct 2022
In this text, the author discusses the life of Hasan al-Wazzan, also known as Leo Africanus, a Moroccan diplomat captured by pirates in the Mediterranean in ...
24 Oct 2022
Tablet My Great-Grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport, Author of ‘Piskei ha-Gra’ 23 Nov 2020
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport, a 19th-century Belarusian rabbi and teacher, was also an honored commentator on Torah and Halacha in the tradition of the Gaon of ...
23 Nov 2020
Tablet The Life of a Court Jew 24 Mar 2020
The text discusses the life and experiences of Glückel von Hameln, a Jewish merchant woman from Hamburg in the late 17th century, as documented in her Yiddis...
24 Mar 2020
Tablet Regaining Jerusalem 21 Apr 2016
The essay discusses the complex history of Portuguese Jews in Suriname, particularly focusing on David Nassy and his family in the seventeenth century. Nassy...
21 Apr 2016