Louis
L. Kaplan Chair,
Associate Professor of Jewish History, Department of History
Ph.D., 1976, Harvard; M.A., 1972; M.A., 1969, Brandeis;
B.A. University of Toronto, 1968
Dr. Cooperman's current research focuses on the development of communal institutions and political thought among Jews in Early Modern Italy. Recent publications include "Political Discourse in a Kabbalistic Register: Isaac De Lattes' Plea for Stronger Communal Government," in Be'erot Yitzhak, Isadore Twersky Memorial Volume (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), and "Theorizing Jewish Self-Government in Early Modern Italy" in Una Manna Buona per Mantova. Man Tov le-Man Tovah. Studi in onore di Vittore Colorni per il suo 92° compleanno (Florence: Olschki, 2004). Earlier work includes a translation of Tradition and Crisis by Jacob Katz (NYU Press, 1993), and edition of Pauline Wengeroff's Rememberings: Memoirs of a Russian Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century (University Press of Maryland, 2000), as well as editions of several volumes of scholarly essays, including Studies in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Thought (Harvard University Press, 1983); In Iberia and Beyond: Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the 500th Anniversary of the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (University of Delaware Press, 1996); and The Jews of Italy: Memory and Identity (University Press of Maryland, 2001).
Dr. Cooperman has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Lilly Fellow (1994-1995). He served as Director of the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies from 1991 to 1997. Dr. Cooperman can be reached at cooperma@umd.edu.
Course website: http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/BCooperman/
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