David B. Ruderman
Protestant Theology
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Prof. Dr. David B. Ruderman,Humboldt Research Award-Fellow at the Martin-Buber-Chair and the Institute for Jewish Studies (2016–2019, each summer semester)
Research Interest
Interactions between Jewish thought and scientific discoveries in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period. Jewish culture in Early Modern Europe, especially the Jewish Enlightenment in England.
Publications
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Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician, Harvard University Press (1988)
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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, Princeton University Press (2000)
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A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and its Remarkable Legacy, University of Washington Press (2014)
