Bernard D. Cooperman
Associate Professor, History
Louis L. Kaplan Professor of Jewish History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies
cooperma@umd.edu
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Research Expertise
Early Modern History
Jewish History
Medieval History
Professor Cooperman has edited two volumes of essays, co-authored a book on the Ghetto of Venice, translated and contributed an Afterword to Jacob Katz' Tradition and Crisis, and written two books which will be published soon. In addition he has written some eleven articles. He has organized numerous professional conferences and consults frequently with museums and libraries for exhibits in his field. He has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has been a Lilly Fellow (1994-95), and has served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies 1991-1997.
Faculty web site: http://faculty.history.umd.edu/BCooperman/
Publications
This volume aims to shed new light on the history of the Jews in Italy between the early modern period and the emergence of a unified Italian state, explicitly placing Jews within the history of the state-building process. It seeks to reconsider Jewish history systematically by stressing the relation of Jews and the state and to trace how Jews and their communities were reshaped in the early modern period.
Volume Editors: Bernard Cooperman, Serena Di Nepi, and Germano Maifreda
Giulio Busi, Edizioni ebraiche del XVI secolo nelle biblioteche dell'Emilia Romagna. in Medievalia et Humanistica.
Review: Giulio Busi, Edizioni ebraiche del XVI secolo nelle biblioteche dell'Emilia Romagna.
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanReview: Giulio Busi, Edizioni ebraiche del XVI secolo nelle biblioteche dell'Emilia Romagna.
Cultural Pluralism from the Ghetto—What Might It Have Meant? in Non contrarii ma Diversi. Rome: Viella.
Cultural Pluralism from the Ghetto
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanCultural Pluralism from the Ghetto
Inventing the Jewish People by Periodizing Jewish Time. in Chronologics. Heidelberg,: University of Heidelberg Press.
Inventing the Jewish People by Periodizing Jewish Time
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanInventing the Jewish People by Periodizing Jewish Time
Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms. Raphael Meldola in Livonro, Pisa and Bayonne. in Religious Changes and Cultural Transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardi Communities. Leiden: Brill.
Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanDefining Deviance, Negotiating Norms
The Early Modern Ghetto: A Study in Urban Real Estate. in The Ghetto in Global History (pp. 57–73). Oxon: Routledge.
The Early Modern Ghetto
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanLegitimizing Rhetorics: Jewish ‘Heresy’ in Early Modern Italy. Etudes Epistémè: Revue de littérature et de civilisation(https://episteme.revues.org/1764).
Jewish ‘Heresy’ in Early Modern Italy
Author/Lead: Bernard D. CoopermanJewish ‘Heresy’ in Early Modern Italy