Jeremy Brown
Jordan Kapson College Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies
Faculty Fellow, Medieval Institute
Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Primary Area: History of Christianity
- Office
- 342 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-6541
- jbrown48@nd.edu
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Biography
Jeremy Phillip Brown is Jordan H. Kapson Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds faculty fellowships at Medieval Institute and Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Brown is the author of A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah (Stanford University Press, 2025); and Light is Sown: The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile (co-authored with Avishai Bar-Asher; Oxford University Press, 2025). He has served as Robert M. Kingdon Fellow at Institute for Research in the Humanities at University of Wisconsin, Madison and as Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish Studies at McGill.
Research Interests
Medieval Judaism, Kabbalah, Jewish-Christian Disputation and Dialogue, Jewish Theology, Jewish Pietism, Hebrew Manuscripts
Selected Publications
"On the Censorship of Jewish anti-Christian Polemic in Early Kabbalah," Association for Jewish Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2024): 278–307
"The Reason a Woman Is Obligated: Women's Ritual Efficacy in Medieval Kabbalah," Harvard Theological Review 116, no. 3 (2023): 422–446
"What Does the Messiah Know? A Prelude to Kabbalah's Trinity Complex," Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion 2 (2023): 1-49
"Espousal of the Impoverished Bride in Early Franciscan Hagiography and the Kabbalah of Gerona," History of Religions 61, no. 3 (2022): 279-305
“From Nacionalista Anti-Kabbalistic Polemic to Aryan Kabbalah in the Southern Cone,” Journal of Religion 99, no. 3 (2019): 341-360
Education
- Ph.D., New York University
- M.Phil., New York University
- B.A., Reed College