Research:
A Biography of Leon Modena, 17th c. Venetian Rabbi
-Orientalism in Venice: A Rabbi Reads the Qur'an through Chritian Eyes
-More New Light on Leon Modena and Kol Sakhal
-Ghetto? What Ghetto? The Life and Writings of Leon Modena as a Map of Jewish-Christian Space in Early Modern Venice
-Leon Modena and the Study of History in Early Modern Venice

Recent Publications:
“Virginity: Women’s Body as a State of Mind: Destiny becomes Biology,” The Jewish Body in the Early Modern Period, eds, M. Diemling and G. Veltri (Brill, 2008), pp. 179-213

“Benvenida Abravanel,” “Debora Ascarelli,” “Fioretta (Batsheva) Modena,” “Leon Modena,” “Rachel Morpurgo,” “Shehitah, Women,” Encyclopedia Judaica ed. Fred Skolnick (Detroit: Macmillan, 2007)

“Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy,” “Deborah Ascarelli,” “Sara Coppia Sullam,” “Benvenida Abravanel,” Jewish Women: a comprehensive historical encyclopedia, eds. Paula E. Hyman and Dalia Ofer (Shalvi Publishing-Jewish Publication Society, 2006)

Forthcoming Publications:
The Lives of Jewish Women in Early Modern Italy: The Struggle for Ambiguity

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