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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis is a Canadian and American historian of the early modern period. She is currently a professor of history at the University of Toronto in Canada. She is the author of The Return of Martin Guerre, Women on the Margins, and Trickster Travels, among many others.

  • Lazăr Şăineanu
    Lazăr Şăineanu
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    A Dictionary on Trial

    A pioneering Romanian Jewish lexicographer finds out that his mastery of language isn’t enough to make him a citizen

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • 'The Baptism of Queen Candace's Eunuch,' circa 1625-30, attributed to Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Younger
    'The Baptism of Queen Candace's Eunuch,' circa 1625-30, attributed to Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Younger
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    Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy

    A Muslim and a Jew meet in Rome

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport
    Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport
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    My Great-Grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport, Author of ‘Piskei ha-Gra’

    With some of his writings being reprinted for an Orthodox audience, my relative’s scholarly achievements are revealed

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • Haggadah, Joseph ben David Leipnik, 1737
    Haggadah, Joseph ben David Leipnik, 1737
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    The Life of a Court Jew

    Glikl of Hameln’s writings say much about Jewish commercial families in Central and Western Europe in the 17th and early 18th centuries

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • 'Pas-kaart vande Rivieren Commewini Suriname en Cupanama,' 1720.
    'Pas-kaart vande Rivieren Commewini Suriname en Cupanama,' 1720.
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    Regaining Jerusalem

    Jewish slaveowners celebrate Passover in 17th-century Suriname

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
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