Publications

A printed amulet from Tunis, ca. 1900.
guedj amulet, tunis

“Invisible Neighbors: Encounters with Demons among Jews and Muslims in Morocco.” In Jews and Muslims in Morocco: Their Intersecting Worlds, eds. Joseph Chetrit, Drora Arussy, and Jane Gerber (Lexington Press, 2021), 163-188.

Street cook, Tunis, 1899

“Shakshuka for All Seasons: Tunisian Jewish Foodways at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” In Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean, eds. Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts, and Vicki Valosik (University of Texas Press, 2021), 170-183.

Title page of Sefer Hatashbetz

“Rabbis with Inky Fingers: the Making of an 18th-Century Hebrew Book between Amsterdam and North Africa.” The Jewish Bookshop of the World: Aspects of Print and Manuscript Culture in Early Modern Amsterdam / Studia Rosenthaliana, vol. 46, no. 1-2 (Fall 2020), 155-189.

Tefillin in Amsterdam Bijbels Museum

“‘Remarkable Objects of the Three Religions’: Judaica in Early Modern European Collections.” Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 31, no. 1 (2019), 17-29.

Drawing of Ginsburg and rabbis, The Jewish Advocate, 1877

“‘It is a Minhag’: Algerian Judaism Through the Eyes of a Hebrew-Christian Missionary.University of Toronto Journal of Jewish Thought, vol. 1, no. 5, 2015.

Hennaed hands

“Henna.” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, 2nd ed. (ed. Noam Stillman). Leiden: Brill, 2013.