Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Over thirty historians in the standing faculty with a broad range of research specialties advance our understanding of the past. Penn's graduate program trains the next generation of scholars and teachers. The Department's strong commitment to undergraduate education can be seen in the prominence of the history major, one of the largest on campus, in the numerous teaching awards earned by both standing faculty and graduate students, and history's strong presence in general education. History faculty direct and participate in many interdisciplinary centers on the Penn campus, and edit a number of scholarly journals.
Submissions from 2016
The 12 Covenants of Pinchas Hurwitz: How an 18th-Century Eastern European Kabbalist Jew Produced One of the First Hebrew Bestsellers, David B. Ruderman
The Blessing of Gerson D. Cohen, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2015
Are Jews the Only True Monotheists? Some Critical Reflections in Jewish Thought from the Renaissance to the Present, David B. Ruderman
Early Modern Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
The Transformations of Judaism, David B. Ruderman
Towards a Preliminary Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: The Many Faces of Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2014
Governance (Spain), Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2013
Reflexiones Generales Sobre Autoridad y Poder en el Siglo de Oro, Ignacio Arellano and Antonio Feros
Historia y Poesía: Monarcas y Favoritos en las Obras de Marlowe y Mira de Amescua, Antonio Feros
Las Varias Vidas del Duque de Lerma, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2012
The Hague Dialogues, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2011
Behind the Best Sellers: A Scholar Revisits an 18th-Century Popular Tone—Reprinted for Centuries—That Mixes Science, Kabbalah and Ethics, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2010
Three Reviewers and the Academic Style of the Jewish Quarterly Review at Midcentury, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2008
The King’s Favorite, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2007
Review of Renato Barahona, Sex Crimes, Honour, and the Law in Early Modern Spain: Vizcaya, 1528–1735, Antonio Feros
Le Ghetto et les Débuts de l'Europe Nouvelle: Vers une Nouvelle Interpretation, David B. Ruderman
The Impact of Early Modern Jewish Thought on the Eighteenth Century: A Challenge to the Notion of the Sephardi Mystique, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2006
Review of Stanley J. Stein and Barbara H. Stein, Apogee of Empire: Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III,1759–1789, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2005
Prólogo to Duque de Osuna: La Hegemonia Española en Europa a Comienzos del Siglo XVII, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2004
El Duque de Lerma: Valimiento y Construcción de un Nuevo Paradigma Político, Antonio Feros
Por Dios, Por La Patria y El Rey: El Mundo Político en Tiempos de Cervantes, Antonio Feros
Greenville Diary: A Norther Rabbi Confronts the Deep South, 1966-1970, David B. Ruderman
Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2003
Review of Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World, Antonio Feros
Twin Souls: Monarchs and Favourites in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain, Antonio Feros
De Culturele Betekenis van het Getto in de Joodse Geschiedenis, David B. Ruderman
Reflecting on American Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2002
Introducción a Antonio Feros, El Duque De Lerma: Realeza y Privanza en la España de Felipe III, Antonio Feros
"Sacred and Terrifying Gazes": Languages and Images of Power in Early Modern Spain, Antonio Feros
Review of John M. Efron, Medicine and the German Jews: A History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 2001
Review of Ruth Ruth Mackay and Sir John Elliott, The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth‐Century Castile, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 2000
Introduction to Kingship and Favoritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621, Antonio Feros
Jewish Medicine and Science, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1999
Was There an English Parallel to the German Haskalah?, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1998
Cecil Roth, Historian of Italian Jewry: A Reassessment, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1997
The Cultural Significance of the Ghetto in Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Was There a "Haskalah" in England? Reconsidering an Old Question, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1996
Review of Robert Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1995
Medieval and Modern Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1994
Review of Gad Freudenthal (Ed.), Studies on Gersonides: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1993
Vicedioses, Pero Humanos: El Drama del Rey, Antonio Feros
Review of Ilana Zinguer, L'Hébreu au Temps de la Renaissance, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1992
Jewish Preaching and the Language of Science: The Sermons of Azariah Figo, David B. Ruderman
Jewish Thought in Newtonian England: The Career and Writings of David Nieto (In Memory of Jacob J. Petuchowski), David B. Ruderman
Tragedy and Transcendence: The Meaning of 1492 for Jewish History, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1991
Review of Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, and Richard H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and His World, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1990
Lerma y Olivares: La Práctica del Valimiento en la Primera Mitad del Seiscientos, Antonio Feros
Submissions from 1989
At the Intersection of Cultures: The Historical Legacy of Italian Jewry Prior to the Emancipation, David B. Ruderman
The Academic Study of Judaism: A Challenge to the Reform Rabbi, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1988
Some Literary and Iconographic Influences of the Renaissance and Baroque on Sefer Gei Hizzayon of Abraham ben Hananiyah Yagel, David B. Ruderman
The Italian Renaissance and Jewish Thought, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1987
Review of Jonathan I. Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1986
Rabbi and Teacher, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1985
Review of Judah Messer Leon and Issac Rabinowitz, The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow (Sepher Nopheth Suphim), David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1984
Review of Johann Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah, David B. Ruderman
Review of Yosef Kaplan, From Christianity to Judaism, Jerusalem, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1982
Review of Paul Lawrence Rose, Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1980
Review of Robert Bonfil, The Rabbinate in Renaissance Italy, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1979
Review of Yacov Boksenboim, Responsa of Rabbi Azriel Diena Vol. I, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1977
The Iggeret Orhot Olam of Abraham Farissol in Its Historic Context, David B. Ruderman
Submissions from 1975
Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio's Appearance in Italy as Seen through the Eyes of an Italian Jew, David B. Ruderman