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Tamar Menashe is the Jay and Leslie Cohen Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University, joining in 2023. Her work bridges legal history with gender studies, interfaith relations, and minority-state dynamics in early modern Europe. She holds a BA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and MA, MPhil, and PhD from Columbia University. Menashe’s research focuses on Jewish legal agency within German imperial courts, exploring how minorities navigated legal systems to assert belonging.
Her book project People of the Law: Jewish Litigation and Minority Belonging in Early Modern Germany (based on her prize-winning dissertation) analyzes 32 archives across five countries. A second project, Archives of Belonging, is a Digital Humanities initiative reconstructing a minority legal archive within imperial records. She has held fellowships at the Leo Baeck Institute and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Menashe’s awards include the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for best German history dissertation in North America. Her courses at Emory examine citizenship, gender, and law in early modern history, including topics like Jewish legal battles and women’s roles in courts.
