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My dissertation investigates the nature of the religious culture of Israeli Jews who trace their ancestry to the Lands of Islam, commonly referred to collectively as "Sephardim," as it has been reconstructed within the elementary, middle, and high schools affiliated or associate…

This dissertation explores the historical and cultural background of the rabbanic eruv. Eruv, a word that signifies 'mixture', 'combination' or 'fusion' will be used in this dissertation to refer to an eruv hatzerot, the joining of the residents of a limited area or space for th…

Studies of the rise of the European state continue to evoke fascination and scholarly controversy. Drawing on theories of state formation, imperial administration, self-fashioning, and legal theory to approach state and personal archives in Bohemia, Moravia, Oxford and Jerusalem…