Department of History
Columbia University
e-mail: mr189@columbia.edu

Research interests
The Jewish communities of the Arab and Islamic
world in the Middle Ages.  I am currently in the beginning stages of a
dissertation on Karaite-Rabbanite relations in the Islamic world, 870-1250.

Publications
Scripture and Schism: Samaritan and Karaite Treasures from the Library of the Jewish  Theological Seminary
(due out in December, 2000)

Webpage  for  The Graduate Forum on Judaic Studies (or "jforum" in e-argot).
The site is tentatively housed at www.columbia.edu/~mr189/jforum.htm