Susan Einbinder is professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut.  She is the author of Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom from Medieval France (Princeton 2002) and No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion and the Memory of Medieval France (Philadelpha 2009).  She is currently at work on a project on trauma and collective memory that treats Jewish responses to the environmental, epidemic, and social crises of the first half of the fourteenth century.

Susan Einbinder on MRB

Writing History on the Medieval Blood Libel. On Hannah R. Johnson’s Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History.