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David Berger
 

Academic Affiliation: Brooklyn College
Office phone: (718) 951-5323
E-Mail: Dberger@gc.cuny.edu

Field of Scholarship

Jewish History

Selected Publications

The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages:  A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary.  Jewish Publication Society, 1979.  Softcover edition, Jason Aronson, 1996.  Introduction reprinted in Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict, ed. by Jeremy Cohen,  New York, 1991, pp.484-513.

Jews and "Jewish Christianity" (With Michael Wyschogrod). Ktav, 1978.  Russian translation by Mikhail Ryzhik, Ktav, 1991.  A non-academic work written at the request of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

Judaism's Ecounter with Other Cultures:  Rejection or Integration?  (with Geral Blidstein, Sid z. Leiman, and Aharon Lichtenstein).  Edited by Jacob J. Schacter.  Prt II:  Medieval and Early Modern Times (pp.57-141).  Jason Aronson, 1997.

Articles

"On the Uses of History in Medieval Jewish Polemic against Christianity:  The Search for the Historical Jesus."  In the Yosef Hayin Yerushalmi Jubilee Volume.  Forthcoming.

"On the Image and Destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic Polemic"  (in Hebrew).  In Facing the Cross:  The Persecution of Ashkenazic Jews in 1096.  Forthcoming.

"What Did Nahmanides Propose to Resolve the Maimonidean Controversy?,"  In the Isadore Twersy Memorial Volume. Forthcoming.

 

 

 

 
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