Nureet Dermer

Nureet Dermer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Accountancy and was a certified public accountant for 10 years. She has an M.A. in Jewish History and wrote her master's thesis on "The Jews in the Tax Lists (taille) of Late 13th Century Paris: the socio-economic and cultural lives of Jewish men and women in Christian neighborhoods". Her doctoral project, titled "Between Expulsions: Daily Encounters between Jews and Christians in Northern France, 1285-1394," is written under the supervision of Professor Elisheva Baumgarten and focuses on the lives of expelled Jews facing the many turmoils of the fourteenth-century. Using legal and administrative sources, royal accounts, various Hebrew sources, and spatial indications, Dermer is interested in questions of local identity, exclusion, and inclusion throughout the calamities of the 14th century and precisely the precarious status of French Jews between expulsions.