Associate Professor
ראש מחלקה-חבר/ת סגל אקדמי בכיר
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jewish History
72 - Cukier, Goldstein-Goren (Humanities & Social Sciences) Building Floor 6 Room 627, Marcus Campus
Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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About
Ephraim (Effie) Shoham-Steiner is a historian specializing in Medieval Jewish History. He teaches at the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be?er-Sheva Israel (BGU) and currently serves as its chair. Between 2018-2021 he served as the head of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSOC) at BGU. His research focuses on the social aspects of Jewish history with a special interest in social information that can be extracted from rabbinic source material from medieval Western Europe but with a keen eye on archeology and material culture as well. His first book, published originally in Hebrew with Shazar Press in Jerusalem in 2008 was published in English with Wayne State University Press titled: On the Margins of a Minority (Detroit 2014). He edited a collected essays volume titled: Intricate Interfaith Networks: Quotidian Jewish Christian Contacts in the Middle Ages (History of Daily Life 5-Brepols; Turnhout 2016). His second book: Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe was published in 2021 with Wayne State University Press. A Hebrew version of this title is forthcoming with Magnes Press at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (January 2026). His new book on the Medieval Jewish Community of Cologne supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) will be published with Magnes Press of the Hebrew University. Effie is thrilled to embark on a new project, stemming from the book on Cologne - a thorough examination of the short Hebrew chronicle Sefer Zechira by Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn a local chronicle of the Jews in the Archdiocese of Cologne from the second half of the 12th century. This project too is funded by the ISF.The University bears no responsibility for the content displayed on this page or on any other faculty members’ pages. Full responsibility for the content rests solely with the faculty members themselves, who independently update and manage the information on their pages
