David Katz

Visiting Professor of History

Departments/Programs

History
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Degrees

Oxford University, D.Phil.
Oxford University, M.Phil.
Columbia University, B.A.

Expertise

The history of ideas in the long early modern period (1500-1900), especially the history of religion.

Profile

He has published three books about the Jews in early modern England; three books about Christianity and radical Christian thought, same time and place; and one book about Turkey in the British imagination, 1776-1923. He is now writing a book about William James as an historian of religion.

Courses Taught

HIST	150b	Reading the Writing of European History
HIST	152b	The European Occult Tradition, 1200-2021
HIST	173a	What's the Big Ideas? People and Concepts You Should Know About from Darwin to Derrida
HIST	188b	The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1350-1900

Scholarship

Katz, David. "The Anglo-Jewish Nomocracy of Isaac Herzog." Marginalia (2021) (forthcoming)

Katz, David. The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776-1923. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Katz, David. The Occult Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day. London: Jonathan Cape / Random House, 2005.

Katz, David. God’s Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism. London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

Katz, David & James E. Force, ed. Everything Connects: In Conference with Richard H. Popkin. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.

Katz, David & Richard H. Popkin. Messianic Revolution: Radical Religious Politics to the End of the Second Millennium. New York & London: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Penguin, 1999.

Katz, David. The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Katz, David & Yosef Kaplan, ed. Exile and Return: Anglo-Jewry Through the Ages [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: Israel Historical Society, 1993.

Katz, David & Jonathan I. Israel, ed. Sceptics, Millenarians and Jews. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990.

Katz, David. Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988.

Katz, David. Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.