Kenneth Stow received the Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1971. He is Professor of Jewish History Emeritus University of Haifa and has held visiting professorships at Yale, Michigan, Smith College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University, among others. Thirty years ago, he founded the international journal Jewish History, which he edited through 2012.Hehas published essays in The American Historical Review, Speculum, and Renaissnce Quarterly and lectured and articipated in congresses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and Buenos Aires.His books includeLevi’s Vindication: The 1007 Anonymous as it Really Is. HUC-Pittsburgh, 2017; Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolution. Yale, 2016; Popes, Church, and Jews in the Middle Ages, Ashgate: Variorum, 2007; Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome: Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life. Ashgate, Variorum, 2007; Jewish Dogs, An Image and Its Interpreters: Continuity in the Jewish-Catholic Encounter. Stanford, 2006;Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century.University of Washington, 2001, Italian trans. Stefania Sottile, Il ghetto di Roma, Storia di una acculturazione.Viella, 2015;Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe. Harvard, 1992 and 1994,Hebrewversion, Mercaz Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem, 1997 and Russian trans. Bibliotheca Judaica, Hebrew University: Jerusalem, 2007; and Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy, 1555-1593. New York, 1977.Currently, he divides his time principally between Haifa and Northampton, MA, with time also in Buenos Aires, and research trips to Italy. He is married to Estela Harretche, Professor of Spanish Literature at Smith College, and has four children and eight grandchildren, all inIsrael.
