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Debra
Kaplan

Bar-Ilan University

Bio

Debra Kaplan teaches early modern Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. A social historian, she is the author of Beyond Expulsion (2011) and The Patrons and their Poor (University of Pennsylvania 2020; winner of the Rosl und Paul Arnsberg-Preis).

Fellowship

2013–2014
Constructing Borders and Crossing Boundaries: Social, Cultural, and Religious Change in Early Modern Jewish History

Investigating changes across the early modern Jewish world.

Events

The Patrons and their Poor: Jewish Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The Patrons and their Poor: Jewish Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Featuring: Debra Kaplan, Bar-Ilan University

Blog Posts

Travel Documents before Modern Passports
October 15, 2018
Travel Documents before Modern Passports
by Debra Kaplan