Recent Publications

Here you can read and download some of Yosef Kaplan's recent publications
by clicking on each item's title. 
 


Hebrew Publications


1.   "Cristóbal Méndez alias Abraham Franco de Silveyra: the Adventures of a Seventeenth- Century Converso", in Studies in Jewish History Presented to   Yosef Hacker, edited by Y. Ben Naeh, J. Cohen, M. Idel & Y. Kaplan, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2014, pp. 406-440 (Hebrew).

2. “Clandestine Marriage in Amsterdam, Broken Hearts in Hamburg and a Kidnapping in London”,
 
in Tov Elem: Memory, Community and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Societies. Essays in honor of Robert Bonfil, edited by Elisheva Baumgarten, A. Raz-Krakotzkin and R. Weinstein,The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Mossad Bialik, Jerusalem 2011, pp. 171-190.


3.  “In Memoriam: Yosef Haim Yerushalmi” ,

Zion LXXIII (2010), pp. 183-191.


4. “Attitudes towards Circumcision among the Early Modern Western Sephardim”,

in From Sages to Savants. Studies Presented to Avraham Grossman, edited by Joseph Hacker, Yosef Kaplan and Benjamin Z. Kedar, The Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2009, pp. 355-392.



English Publications


1. “Spinoza in the Library of an Early Modern Dutch Sephardi Rabbi”,

in La centralità del dubbio. Un progetto di Antonio Rotondò, edited by C. Hermanin & L. Simonutti, Leo S. Olschki Editore, Firenze 2011, Vol. 2, pp. 641-664.


2. "The Unusual Testimony of Charles Lemaître about a Street Brawl in Amsterdam in 1681",

      In Studia Rosenthaliana  42/43 (2010/11), pp. 65-75.