Tamar Herzig

Tamar Herzig is Professor of Early Modern History at Tel Aviv University, where she currently serves as Vice Dean for Research in the Humanities. Her books include Savonarola’s Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy (2008); ‘Christ Transformed into a Virgin Woman’: Lucia Brocadelli, Heinrich Institoris, and the Defense of the Faith (2013), and A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (2019), which was awarded honorable mention for the Renaissance Society of America’s Gordan Book Prize and won the American Historical Association’s 2020 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for the best book on the history of the Jewish diaspora. For her work on religious conversion, she won the Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research in 2019. In 2021, she won the Michael Bruno Memorial Award for her contribution to the study of Renaissance history. She is currently working on female Jewish slavery in early modern Italy. Her article, “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence: A Multiple Perpetrator Rape in Seventeenth-Century Livorno,” is scheduled for publication in the American Historical Review 127:1 (2022).