Joseph Shatzmiller
| Title: | Smart Family Professor of Judaic Studies |
| Office Location: | 334 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2225 |
| Email Address: | joseph.shatzmiller@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Aix-en-Provence U., France, 1967
Research Interests
Dr. Shatzmiller is the author of Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending and Medieval Society and a more recent volume on Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society, along with numerous essays on European Jewry in the Middle Ages. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and he has taught Jewish history at the University of Haifa and the University of Toronto.
Recent Publications
Papers Published- with H. Azar and M. Mcvaugh. "Kon Zuhr (Avenzoar)'s Description of a verrucous Malignancy of the colon." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 19 (2002): 1-10. with English translation from the Arabic and notes on its Hebrew and Latin version
- "Jacob ben Elie, traducateur multilingue a Venise a la fin du. Xiii e siecle." Micrologus 9 (2001): 195-202.
- "Community and Super Community in Medieval Europe." The Jews of Medieval Europe, Trier (2003).
- "Les 'Miquevaot' juives au Moyen Age." Medievales (2003).
- "Responsabilite et irresponsabilite medicale au moyen-age." Collogue de Salerne (2002).