Prof. Debra Kaplan is Professor of Jewish History and holds the Samuel Braun Chair for the History of the Jews in Germany in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University.

A social and cultural historian of the early modern period, she is the author of Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians and Reformation Strasbourg (Stanford University Press, 2011; Hebrew translation, Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2016; The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) and together with Professor Elisheva Carlebach, A Woman is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her scholarship focuses on daily life, gender, and Jewish-Christian relations.