Faculty Guide

Title

Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies

Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Sephardic studies.

Awards and Honors

Salo W. Baron Prize for outstanding first book in Jewish Studies (2008)

Center for Advanced Jewish Studies Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania) (2005)

Koret Foundation Jewish Studies Publication Award (2005)

Courses Taught

NEJS	3a	Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
NEJS	123b	Classical Biblical Commentaries
NEJS	139a	Philosophers, Poets, and Mystics: Jewish Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
NEJS	149a	The Jews of Muslim and Christian Spain
NEJS	149b	The Sephardic Experience II: 1492 to the Present
NEJS	155a	The Philosophy of Moses Maimonides
NEJS	157b	Medieval Jewish Philosophy
NEJS	179a	Jewish Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
NEJS	180a	Love and Passion in Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought
USEM	53a	Between Conflict and Cooperation: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

Scholarship

Decter, Jonathan P.. "A Gathering for Our Time: The Dream of the Poem as an Anthology." La Coronica (2009). (forthcoming)

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Sephardi and MIddle Eastern Jewry." The Jew in the Modern World. Ed. Jehuda Reinharz and Paul Mendes-Flohr., 2009 (forthcoming)

Decter, Jonathan P.. "May God Curse Them Both: Ibrahim Ibn al-Fakhar Between Castile and the Maghreb." Religious Communities in Islamic Empires. Ed. Goldstein, Miriam and David Freidenreich. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 (forthcoming)

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Andalusi Poetics and Representations of Women in the Andalusi Hebrew Lament." Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays in Honor of Magda al-Nowaihi. Ed. Marle Hammond and Dana Sajdi. American University in Cairo Press, 2008. 115-41.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "The Hidden Exilarch: Power and Performance in a Medieval Jewish Ceremony." Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts. Ed. Elina Gertsman. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. 179-91.

Decter, Jonathan P. and Michael Rand, ed. Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters in Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Ibn Shahin, Nissim Ben Jacob." Medieval Islamic Civilization, an Encyclopedia. 2007.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Landscape and Culture in the Medieval Hebrew Rhymed Prose Narrative." Jewish Studies Quarterly 14. 3 (2007): 257-85.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Poetry, Hebrew." Medieval Islamic Civilization, an Encyclopedia. 2007.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Power in the Portrayal." Rev. of Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain, by Ross Brann. Jewish Quarterly Review vol. 97 78-81.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Subduing Hagar: The Hebraization of Arabic and Judeo-Arabic Texts in Christian Spain and Provence." Language of Religion, Language of the People: Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Ed. Michael Richter and David Wasserstein. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007. 155-70.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "The Texture of the Divine." Rev. of The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought, by Aaron Hughes. Jewish Quarterly Review vol. 97 82-84.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "al-Harizi, Judah." Medieval Islamic Civilization, an Encyclopedia. 2007.

Decter, Jonathan P.. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Bloomington, In: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Rendering Qur'anic Quotations in Hebrew Translations of Islamic Texts." Jewish Quarterly Review 96. 3 (2006): 336-358.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Literatures of Medieval Sepharad." Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times. Ed. Zion Zohar. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 77-110.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "A Myrtle in the Forest: Landscape and Nostalgia in Andalusian Hebrew Poetry." Prooftexts 24. (2004): 135-166.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan." Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times. Ed. Joyce Moss. Santa Monica: Moss Publishing, 2004. 35-41.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Judah al-Harizi's Book of Tahkemoni." Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times. Ed. Joyce Moss. Santa Monica: Moss Publishing, 2004. 68-75.

Decter, Jonathan P.. "Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain." Rev. of Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain, by David Simha Segal. Prooftexts vol. 23 110-118.