Prof. Simha Goldin

Role: Head of the The Jewish Neighborhood Research Project 

Email: sgoldin@tauex.tau.ac.il

Scope of Research:

Social History; The Jewish Community in Medieval Ashkenaz; Jewish Prayer, Conversion, Gender, Responsa, and Halacha; Jewish Soldiers in WWII

Academic Background:

Ph.D. in Jewish History (Medieval), Tel Aviv University

Subject of Ph.D. thesis: The Relations between the Individual and His Group in the Jewish Communities of Northern France and Germany (1100 – 1350). The thesis was written under the supervision of Professor Shlomo Simonsohn z”l.

M.A. in Jewish History (Medieval), Haifa University

Subject of M.A. thesis: The Jewish Family in Sefer Hasidim, written under the supervision of Professor Maurice Kriegel.

B.A. in Jewish History and General History (Magna Cum Laude), Haifa University

Selected Publications

Books:
 

• Apostasy and Jewish Identity in High Middle Ages Northern Europe, Manchester University Press 2014, 176 pp.

• Jewish Women in the Middle Ages – A Quiet Revolution, Manchester University Press 2011, 271 pp.

• The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom, Brepols 2008, (English version of no.4 + an additional chapter), 399 pp.

• Alamot Ahevukha: Al-mavet Ahevuka (Jewish Martyrdom) [Hebrew], Dvir, Lod 2002, 487 pages (Hebrew).
  עלמות אהבוך, על- מות אהבוך, כיצד נוצרה נורמת מוות על קידוש השם, הוצאת דביר תל- אביב תשס"ב (2002), 487 עמודים.

• Yihud we-ha-Yahad (Uniqueness and Togetherness) [Hebrew], Tel Aviv 1997, 252 pp.
  הייחוד והיחד: חידת השרדותן של הקבוצות היהודיות בימי הביניים, מכון התפוצות והוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד, תשנ"ח (1977), 252 עמודים.

Articles:

• “Juifs et juifs convertis au Moyen Age: es-tu encore mon frére?” Annales Histoire, sciences sociales, 54(1999), pp. 851–874.

• “The Socialization for ‘Kiddush ha-Shem’ among Medieval Jews”, Journal of Medieval  History, 23(1997), pp. 117–138.

• “The Role of Ceremonies in the Socialization Process: The Case of Jewish Communities of Northern France and Germany in the Middle Ages”, Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 95(1996), pp. 163–178.

• “The Synagogue in Medieval Jewish Community as an Integral Institution”, Journal of Ritual Studies, 9(1995), pp. 15–39.

• “Die Beziehung der judischen Familie im Mittelalter zu Kind und Kindheit”, Jahrbuch der Kindheit, 6(1989), pp. 209–233, 251–256.

• “R. Eliezer b. Natan (the Ravan): Conservator or Innovator?”, in: Minhagim: Custom and Practice in Jewish Life, eds. Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Simha Goldin, Jean Baumgarten, and Hasia Diner, Rethinking Diaspora Series, De Gruyter Publishing House (TBP: 2020).

• “Jews and the Attractions of Christianity”, in:  Religious Conversion: Experiences and Meanings, History, Experience and Meaning, eds. Ira Katznelson and Miri Rubin, (Burlington 2014), pp. 217–231.

• “Childhood, Middle Ages in Ashkenaz”, in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion, History, and Culture, ed. J. Baskin, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge 2011), pp. 429–430.

• “Juden und die Welt der Bucher in den Jahren 1100–1700: ‘Schriften fur Kinder’ und ‘Kinderbucher’ bei den Juden in Deutschland”, in: Deutsch-judische Kinder - und Jugendliteratur. Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Grundriss, eds. Annegret Völpel and Zohar Shavit, Frankfurt 2002, pp. 6–24.

• “The Uses of the Term ‘Family’ in Jewish Medieval Sources” [Hebrew], in: Women, Children and the Elderly: Essays in Honour of Shulamit Shahar, eds. Miri Eliav-Feldon and Yitzhak Hen, Jerusalem 2001, pp. 45–55.

• "השימוש במושג 'משפחה' אצל יהודי צפון- צרפת וגרמניה בימי הביניים“, נשים זקנים וטף, מ' אליאב פלדון וי' חן (עורכים) ירושלים תשס"ב, עמ' 45–56.

• “Jewish Society under Pressure: The Concept of Childhood”, in:Youth in the Middle Ages, eds. P.J. Goldberg & F. Riddy, University of York Medieval Press, York 2004, pp. 25–43.

• “Jewish Children and Christian Mission” [Hebrew], in: Sexuality and the Family in History, eds. Israel Bartal and Isaiah Gafni, Jerusalem 1998, pp. 97–118.

• ”’פן יבואו הערלים הללו ויתפשום ויהיו מקויימים בתעתועם‘ – היחס לילדים בקהילה היהודית בימי הביניים“, ארוס אירוסין ואיסורים- מיניות ומשפחה בהיסטוריה, ברטל וגפני (עורכים), מרכז זלמן שזר ירושלים תשנ"ח, עמ' 97–118.

• “The Notion of Childhood and the Texts for the Child during the Middle Ages and Renaissance”, in: Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096–1996, eds. S. Gilman and J. Zipes, New Haven 1997, pp. 35–42.

• “Verteidigungsstrategie einer judischen Minderheit Erziehung zum ‘Kiddush ha-Shem’”, in: Der Umgang mit dem Fremden in der Vormoderene, eds. Keck, Wiersing, Koln 1997, pp. 229–235.

   

•  “‘Companies of Disciples’ and ‘Companies of Colleagues’; Communication in Jewish Intellectual Circles”,in: Vox Iudaica, Communication in the Jewish Diaspora in the Pre-Modern Period, ed. S. Menache, Leiden 1996, pp. 127–139.