Nadia Zeldes

Nadia Zeldes has a Ph.D. in Jewish History from the Tel Aviv University (1998). She is currently a research fellow affiliated with The Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Her main research interests concern inter-religious and inter-cultural encounters in the Mediterranean world during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. She has published extensively on Christian-Jewish relations in that period with a focus on the...See more

Nadia Zeldes has a Ph.D. in Jewish History from the Tel Aviv University (1998). She is currently a research fellow affiliated with The Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University, Israel. Her main research interests concern inter-religious and inter-cultural encounters in the Mediterranean world during the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. She has published extensively on Christian-Jewish relations in that period with a focus on the history of conversions in southern Italy and Spain. Nadia Zeldes is the author of "The Former Jews of This Kingdom" - Sicilian Converts after the Expulsion (1492-1516) (2003) and Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance: Christians, Jews, and the Hebrew Sefer Josippon (2020). See less