Columbia University
Betrayal and Conversion: Jews, Christians and Cross-Confessional Legal Culture in Reformation Germany
Tamar Menashe situates her work within the intersections of the law with gender, culture, and interfaith relations, and—music. Menashe earned her BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with substantial concentrations in German and Iberian Studies, CompLit, and philosophy, completing her degree between Austria, Germany, and Jerusalem. She continued her graduate studies at the Hebrew University and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid before pursuing her Ph.D. at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her doctoral work, “The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495–1690,” won the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. She is currently the Jay and Leslie Cohen Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emry University.