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Elliott
Horowitz

Bar-Ilan University
Ella Darivoff Fellowship

Research Topic

Purim Celebration and Anti-Christian Expression among the Jews of Medieval and Early Modern Euorpe

Bio

Elliott Horowitz was an editor of JQR from 2003 to 2017. He taught for much of his career in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he studied the cultural and social history of Jews in premodern Europe. Horowitz's project is titled “Middle Eastern Travels and Biblical Scholarship.

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.

2011–2012
Travel Facts, Travel Fictions, and the Performance of Jewish Identity

Applying an interdisciplinary approach to the richness and diversity of travel writing.

2010–2011
Converts and Conversion To and From Judaism

Examining the boundary between Judaism and other religions with a concurrent study of parallel social and religious phenomena and historical contexts.

2008–2009
Jews, Commerce, and Culture

Working to expose the shifting linkages between commerce and culture in Jewish life from medieval to modern times.

2003–2004
Prescriptive Traditions and Lived Experience in the Jewish Religion: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Challenging the methodological divide between history and anthropology in the study of Jews and Judaism.

1994–1995
History - Remembered, Recovered, Invented: Historical Memory and the Construction of Tradition

Taking stock of the distinctive properties of, and putative boundary between, traditional memory and modern critical history.

Blog Posts

Three Generations of Judaic Scholarship
April 15, 2015
Three Generations of Judaic Scholarship
by Elliott Horowitz