Begun in the mid-1980’s by Professors Mark Cohen and Avrom Udovitch of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the goal of the Princeton Geniza Project is to create a machine-readable, full-text database of transcriptions of historical documents from the Geniza, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and, mostly, Judaeo-Arabic. This invaluable…

Jewish Studies Quarterly, established in 1993 by Joseph Dan (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and Peter Schäfer (Princeton University), is a peer-reviewed academic journal published four times a year, edited out of Princeton…

The Book of the Life of Jesus (in Hebrew Sefer Toledot Yeshu) presents a chronicle of Jesus from a negative and anti-Christian perspective. It ascribes to Jesus an illegitimate birth, a theft of the Ineffable Name, heretic activities, and finally, a disgraceful death. Perhaps for centuries, the Toledot Yeshu circulated orally until it coalesced…

Through a generous donation from The Tikvah Fund, Princeton University established The Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought at Princeton, a  term grant that funded projects from 2007-2014.  Devoted to bringing Jewish thought into conversation with the broader historical, philosophical, and theological traditions of the West and beyond, the project…

Sefer Hasidim ("Book of the Pious") is one of our most important sources for the religion, history, and culture of medieval German Jewry. This Hebrew book originated between the late 12th and early 13th centuries in the Rhineland, shortly after the Second Crusade. Thereafter, it circulated widely, influencing the…