Position
Professor of History and the Program in Judaic Studies
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Email
Office
227 Dickinson Hall
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Education
B.A. History, Columbia University 2002
M.Phil. History, University of Cambridge 2003 (Degree awarded 2007)
Ph.D. History, University of Pennsylvania 2008
Bio/Description
Yaacob Dweck studies the Jews of the early modern period. His first book, The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice appeared in 2011. Prior to his appointment in the history department, he was a Mellon-Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton.