PUBLICATIONS
Books
 The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell
University Press, 1982.
winner of: National Jewish Book Award for scholarship, 1983
included in: ACLS Humanities E-Book collection
 “Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It”: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a
Biblical Text, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1989.
winner of:
--National Jewish Book Award for scholarship, 1990
--American Catholic Historical Association, John Gilmary Shea Prize, 1990
--Ohio Academy of History Publication Award, 1991
 Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity, Berkeley and Los
Angeles, University of California Press, 1999.
winner of:
--Wischnitzer Prize in Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999-2000
--National Jewish Book Award for scholarship, 2000
 Hebrew translation: ‫ היהודי בתפיסה הנוצרית בימי הביניים‬:‫( כעיוור במראה‬Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar
Center for Jewish History, 2002)
winner of: Zalman Shazar Prize in Jewish History, 2003
 Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade,
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
 Christ-Killers: The Jews and the Passion, from the Bible to the Big Screen, New York, Oxford
University Press, 2007.
Edited Volumes
 Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict: From Late Antiquity to the
Reformation, New York, New York University Press, 1991
 From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought, Wiesbaden,
Germany, Otto Harrassowitz Publishers, 1996
 Facing the Cross: The 1096 Persecutions in History and Historiography [in Hebrew], ed. Y.T.
Assis, J. Cohen, A. Kedar, O. Limor, and M. Tokh, Jerusalem, Dinur Institute for Jewish
History, 2000
 Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, ed. Martin Goodman, assoc. eds. Jeremy Cohen, David
Sorkin, Oxford University Press, 2002
winner of: National Jewish Book Award for scholarship, 2003
 The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea, ed. Jeremy Cohen and Richard I.
Cohen, Oxford, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008
 Rethinking European Jewish History, ed. Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman, Oxford, Littman
Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008
winner of: National Jewish Book Award for anthologies and collections, 2010
 Remembering and Forgetting: Israeli Historians Look at the Jewish Past, ed. Albert
Baumgarten, Jeremy Cohen, and Ezra Mendelsohn, Jerusalem, Historical Society of Israel,
2009
Articles
“Roman Imperial Policy towards the Jews from Constantine until the End of the Palestinian Patriarchate
(ca. 429),” Byzantine Studies 3 (1976), 1-29.
“The Nasi of Narbonne: A Problem in Medieval Historiography,” Association for Jewish Studies
Review 2 (1977), 45-76.
“The Christian Adversary of Solomon ibn Adret,” Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 71 (1980), 48-55.
“Original Sin as the Evil Inclination--A Polemicist’s Appreciation of Human Nature,” Harvard
Theological Review 73 (1980), 495-520.
“Jews as the Killers of Christ in the Latin Tradition, from Augustine to the Friars,” Traditio 39 (1983),
1-27.
“Philosophical Exegesis in Historical Perspective: The Case of the Binding of Isaac,” in Divine
Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy, ed. Tamar Rudavsky, Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, D. Reidel Publishers, 1985, pp. 135-42.
“The Bible, Man, and Nature in the History of Western Thought: A Call for Reassessment,” Journal of
Religion 65 (1985), 155-72.
“Scholarship and Intolerance in the Medieval Academy: The Study and Evaluation of Judaism in
European Christendom,” American Historical Review 91 (1986), 592-613.
“Robert Chazan’s ‘Medieval Anti-Semitism’: A Note on the Impact of Theology,” in History and Hate:
The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism, ed. David Berger, Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society,
1986, pp. 67-72.
“The Mentality of the Medieval Jewish Apostate: Peter Alfonsi, Hermann of Cologne, and Pablo
Christiani,” in Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World, ed. T.M. Endelman, New York, Holmes &
Meier Publishers, 1987, pp. 20-47.
“The Friars and the Jews,” in The Many Sides of History: Readings in the Western Heritage, ed. Steven
Ozment and Frank M. Turner, New York, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 187202.
“Recent Historiography on the Medieval Church and the Decline of European Jewry,” in Popes,
Teachers, and Canon Law in the Middle Ages, ed. James Ross Sweeney and Stanley Chodorow,
Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. 251-62.
“Traditional Prejudice and Religious Reform: The Theological and Historical Foundations of Luther's
Anti-Judaism,” in Antisemitism in Times of Crisis, ed. Steven Katz and Sander Gilman, New
York, New York University Press, 1991, pp. 81-102.
“Introduction,” in Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict, ed. Jeremy Cohen, New
York, New York University Press, 1991, pp. 1-36.
“Profiat Duran’s The Reproach of the Gentiles and the Development of Jewish Anti-Christian
Polemic,” in Shlomo Simonsohn Jubilee Volume: Studies on the History of the Jews in the Middle
Ages and Renaissance, ed. Daniel Carpi, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University Press, 1993, pp. 71-84.
“Towards a Functional Classification of Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic in the High Middle Ages,” in
Religionsgesprache im Mittelalter, ed. Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewohner, Wiesbaden,
Germany, Otto Harrassowitz Publishers, 1992, pp. 93-114.
“Rationales for Conjugal Sex in Ra’AbaD’s Ba‘alei ha-Nefesh,” Jewish History 6 (1992), 65-78.
“Medieval Jews on Christianity: Polemical Strategies and Theological Defense,” in Interwoven
Destinies: Jews and Christians through the Ages, ed. Eugene J. Fisher, New York, Paulist Press,
1993, pp. 77-89.
“On Medieval Judaism and Medieval Studies,” in The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, ed. John
Van Engen, Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, pp. 73-93.
“Gezerot Tatnu: Martyrdom and Martyrology in the Hebrew Chronicles of 1096” [in Hebrew], Zion 59
(1994), 169-208.
“Isidore of Seville’s Anti-Jewish Polemic: A Reevaluation,” in Proceedings of the Tenth World
Congress of Jewish Studies, (Jerusalem, 1994), B1:83-89.
“‘Witnesses of Our Redemption’: Jews in the Crusading Theology of Bernard of Clairvaux,” in
Medieval Studies in Honour of Avrom Saltman, ed. Bat-Sheva Albert et al., Ramat Gan, Bar-Ilan
University Press, 1995, pp. 67-81.
“The Oriental Connection: Muslim Influences on Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Twelfth
Century” [in Hebrew], in Daniel Carpi Jubilee Volume, ed. D. Porat, M. Rozen, and A. Shapira,
Tel Aviv University Press, 1996, pp. 59-72.
“The Muslim Connection, or, On the Changing Role of the Jew in High Medieval Theology,” in From
Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought, ed. Jeremy Cohen,
Wiesbaden, Germany, Otto Harrassowitz Publishers, 1996, pp. 141-62.
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“Sexuality and Intentionality in Rabbinic Thought of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries” [in
Hebrew], Te‘udah 13 (1997), 155-172.
“The Commandment To ‘Be Fertile and Increase’ and Its Role in Religious Polemics” [in Hebrew], in
Sexuality and the Family in History: Collected Essays, ed. Israel Bartal and Isaiah Gafni,
Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1998, pp. 83-96.
“‘Slay Them Not’: Augustine and the Jews in Modern Scholarship,” Medieval Encounters 4 (1998), 7892.
“Between Martyrdom and Apostasy: Doubt and Self-Definition in Twelfth-Century Ashkenaz,” Journal
of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29 (1999), 431-471.
“The Hebrew Crusade Chronicles in Their Christian Cultural Context,” in Juden und Christen zur Zeit
der Kreuzzuge, ed. Alfred Haverkamp, Sigmaringen, Germany, Jan Thorbecke Publishers, 1999,
pp. 17-34.
“The Second Disputation of Paris and Thirteenth-Century Jewish-Christian Polemic” [in Hebrew],
Tarbiz 68 (1999), 557-579.
“The Crucified Jesus, Jewish Memory, and Counter-History” [in Hebrew], Zmanim 68-69 (1999-2000),
12-29.
“A 1096 Complex? Constructing the First Crusade in Jewish Historical Memory, Medieval and
Modern,” in Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe, ed. Michael Signer and John Van
Engen, Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame Press, 2000, pp. 9-26.
“Between History and Historiography: On the Study of the Persecutions and the Determination of Their
Significance” [in Hebrew], in Facing the Cross: The 1096 Persecutions in History and
Historiography, Jerusalem, Dinur Institute for Jewish History, 2000, pp. 16-31.
“Raymundus Martini's Capistrum Iudaeorum” [in Hebrew], in Me’ah She‘arim: Studies in Mediebal
Jewish Spiritual Life in Memory of Isadore Twersky, ed. Ezra Fleischer et al., Jerusalem, Magnes
Press, 2001, pp. 279-296.
“Christian Theology and Anti-Jewish Violence in the Middle Ages: Connections and Disjunctions,” in
Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives, ed.
Anna Sapir Abulafia, Palgrave Publishers, 2002, pp. 44-60.
“Synagoga Conversa: Honorius Augustodunensis, The Song of Songs, and Christianity’s
Eschatological Jew,’” Speculum 79 (2004), 309-340.
“The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation: Romans 11:25-26 in Patristic and Medieval Exegesis,” Harvard
Theological Review 98 (2005), 247-281.
“The Blood Libel in Solomon ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah,” in Jewish Blood: Reality and Metaphor in
Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, ed. Mitchell Hart, London, Routledge, 2009, pp. 116-135.
“Augustine’s Doctrine of Jewish Witness Revisited,” Journal of Religion, 89 (2009), 564-578.
“Antichrist and His Jewish Connections” [in Hebrew], in Rishonim ve-Achronim: Studies in Jewish
History Presented to Avraham Grossman, ed. Joseph Hacker et al., Zalman Shazar Center for
Jewish History, 2010, pp. 29-45.
“‘The Guardian of Israel neither Dozes nor Sleeps’: Exegesis, Polemics, and Politics in the Late
Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter,” in Transforming Relations: Essays on Jews and
Christians throughout History in Honor of Michael Signer Memorial Volume, ed. Franklin T.
Harkins, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, pp. 285-309.
“Polemic and Pluralism: The Jewish-Christian Debate in Solomon Ibn Verga’s Shevet Yehudah,”
forthcoming in Festschrift for Ora Limor, ed. Israel J. Yuval and Ram Ben-Shalom, Brepols
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