Jews and State Building

Bernard D. Cooperman currently holds the Louis L. Kaplan Chair in Jewish History at the University of Maryland. He has edited five volumes of scholarly essays, has translated and edited works, and has published over thirty scholarly essays. He is currently preparing a book-length study of the development of institutions of self-government as a sign of Jewish modernity.



Serena Di Nepi is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Sapienza - University of Rome. She is an expert on the history of religious minorities in Early Modern Italy, with a special focus on Rome and the Papal States. The revised English version of her first book Surviving the Ghetto was published by Brill in 2020.



Germano Maifreda is professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He is an expert on the European political and economic history of the Reformation and Counter-reformation, working at the intersection between business history, religious minorities, and institutional discriminations. His books include The Trial of Giordano Bruno (Routledge 2022) and his biography of cardinal Giovanni Morone with Massimo Firpo is being translated by Brill.