David Nirenberg

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia David Nirenberg is an American historian, Dean of the Divinity School, and Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, as well as the former Executive Vice Provost of the University, Dean of the Social Sciences Division, and the founding Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society. He has a particular interest in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought in Medieval Europe. In addition to the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of History, he is also appointed in the Divinity School and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, and the College of the University of Chicago.


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The Plague

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Released: 2005-10-31

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The Ornament of the World

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Released: 2019-11-19

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period...

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A History of Antisemitism

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First aired: 2022-04-12

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews,...

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