Norman Simms

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Recent Publications

Scholarly Books:

ed. with Moshe Liba, Jewish Child Slaves in São Tomé. Wellington: New Zealand Jewish Chronicle Publications, 2003. 242pp.

ed., Windows on a Jewish World: The Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Waikato Jewish Studies Seminar, 2003. Hamilton: Outrigger Publishers, 2004. vi+ 80 pp.

Crypto-Judaism, Madness, and the Female Quixote: Charlotte Lennox as Marrana in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ontario, and Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. xi + 372 pp.

A New Midrashic Reading of Geoffrey Chaucer: His Life and Works. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont. and Lampeter, UK: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 486 pp.

Scholarly Essays:

“Bishop Lobo’s Nightmare” Sefarad: The Sephardic Newsletter ( 23 September 2003) 12:8, part 4 (Sea12.8.4) pp. 1-13.

“If You Argue With God, So What Else Can’t You Do? Some Views on the Jewishness of Jewish American Writing” (Part 1) Journal of Literature & Aesthetics 3:1-2 Jan-Dec. 2003) 49-60.

“Jewish Childrearing in Pre-Modern Times” in Simms, Windows on a Jewish World, pp. 39-58.

"Marranism Reconsidered as Duplicity, Creativity, and Lost Innocence," RuBriCa 13 (2004) 67-117.

“Rambam vs. Ramban: Part 2. A New Levantine Twist on an Old Controversy” Sephardic Heritage Update (Special Edition, December 2004) 1-10.

“Marranism: An Essay in Shame and Hope” Joseph Bulbulia and Paul Morris, eds., What is Religion For? ( Wellington: Victoria University. 2004) pp. 121-145.

“Three Representative Writers”, Part 3 of “If You Can Argue with God, so what else can’t you do? Some Views on the Jewishness of Jewish American Writing”, Journal of Literature & Aesthetics 4:1-2 (Jan-Dec., 2004) 127-132.

Creative Writing:

The Girl Who Would Be God: A Story of Boro Park, Brooklyn, in the 1940s . A Christmas Keepsake Book for the Friends of Brick Row. Palm Springs, CA: Brick Row, 2003. 15 pp.

“The Obsession with War: Aggression and Deceit. A Simple Almost True Story” in I Want to Speak of Tenderness: 50 Writers for Anne Ranasinghe, ed. Gérard Robuchon ( Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Centre for Ethnic Studies, 2003) pp. 328-340.