AWARDS & GRANTS

2021 – Presidential Award for Research/Scholarship
2020 – The Memorial Foundation for Jewish. Culture, Research Grant.
2019 – Presidential Research Development Grant – Touro College
2017 – Presidential Research Development Grant – Touro College
2016 – Honorary Doctorate Touro College France-Ran University, France.
1999 – Honorary Doctorate – Moscow University Touro, Russia.
1998 – Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
1994 – Honorary Doctorate – Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia.
1991-93 – Social Scientific and Humanities Research, Council of Canada – Research Grant.
1990-91 – University of Toronto – CJN Post – Doctoral, Fellowship. Social Scientific and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Post-Doctoral Award.
1990 – American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College – Post Doctorate Award.
1989-90 – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Post Doctorate Award. Canada Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges, Post-Doctorate Representative.
1989 – Wilfrid Laurier Research Grant.
1988 – The Moshe Sambatyon Memorial Prize for Scholarly Essay.
1987-88 – Fonds F.C.A.R. – Doctoral Fellowship (Quebec Government, Canada).
1986-87 – Montreal Jewish Community Found, Doctoral Fellowship.
1980 – The Memorial Foundation for Jew. Culture, Research Grant.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
Beyond a Code of Jewish Law: Rabbi Avraham’s Haye Adam Academic Studies Press 2021.
Fire Symbolism in Jewish Law and Custom Edwin Mellen Press 2021.
With Calvin Goldscheider and Jack Lightstone Exploring Mishnah’s World(s): Social Scientific Approaches Pagrave, Macmillan 2020.
Alan Kadish, Michael Shmidman with Simcha Fishbane The Jewish Intelectual Tradition: A History of Learning and Achievement Academic Studies Press 2020.
Woman’s Literacy in Eastern Europe During the 18th and Early 19th Centuries: The Case of the Haye Adam, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2019. With Julie Joseph.
Witches in the Talmud: A Social Anthropological Study Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2018.
Menstruating Women and Menstrual Blood in the Mishnah: A Social Anthropological Study Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2018.
Prostitutes in the Talmud: A Social Anthropological Study Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2018.
Dynamics of Continuity and Change in Jewish Religious Life Simcha Fishbane and Levine Eric, Touro College Press, Boston 2018.
The Rabbinic Discussion About Bat Mitzvah Celebrations: Girl Puberty Rights in Judaism? Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
The Slaughter of a Rooster at the Jewish Festival of Yom Kippur Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
The Meaning of the Jewish Festival of Purim: What its Rituals and Customs Symbolize Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
The Pilgrimage to the Temple and the Giving of the Torah: Rabbinical Interpretations of the Festival of Shavuot Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
Jewish Mourning Customs During the Spring Season: A Ritual Act of Collective Memory Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
Why Jewish Women are not Permitted to Work on the Festival of Rosh Hodesh: An Anthropological Explanation Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston New York, 2017.
Contention, Controversy, and Change, Fishbane Volumes 1 and 2, Simcha Fishbane and Levine Eric, Touro College Press, Boston 2016.
The Impact of Culture and Cultures Upon Jewish Custom and Ritual, Academic Studies Press, Boston, 2016.
The Shetibilization of Modern Jewry Studies in Custom and Ritual in a Judaic Tradition: Social-Anthropological Perspectives, Academic Studies Press, 2011.
The Boldness of a Halakhist Academic Studies Press, 2008.
Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature A Collection of Socio-Anthropological Essays Brill, Netherlands 2007.
Jewish Studies in Violence, Fishbane Simcha and Roberta Farber Editors, University Press of America, 2002.
Stern Yoseph Zecharia, Sh’elot Vteshovot Zecher Yehosef, edited and introduced by Simcha Fishbane, Machon Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, 1994.
Approaches to Ancient Judaism Volume 5, Fishbane Simcha editor, Scholars Press, Atlanta Georgia, 1993.
Epstein Yechiel Mechel HaLevi, Drashot Kol Ben Levi, section 1, edited and introduced by Fishbane Simcha, Ktav Publishing, New York. 1992
Epstein Yechiel Mechel HaLevi, Aruch Hashulchan, Yoreh De’ah Hilchot Nedarim, volume 9, section 2, edited and introduced by Fishbane Simcha, Ktav Publishing, New York. 1992
The Method and Meaning of the Mishnah Berurah, Simcha Fishbane, Ktav Publishing, New York. 1990
The Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society vol. 1. Fishbane Simcha editor, Concordia University, Department of Religion, Montreal Canada 1989.
The Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society vol. 2. Fishbane Simcha editor, Ktav Publishing, 1991

ARTICLES
“ארץ-ישראל קדושתה למעלה מכל הארצו: תפיסת הגולה בעולם המשנה”[Eretz Yisrael Kedushta Lema’aleh Mi-kol Ha’aratzot: Tefisas Ha-Golah Be’Olam Ha-Mishnah]. In Hazan, H., Sharaby, R., Cicurel, I.E. (Eds.) בין הזמנים-טקס וטקסט בחברה משתנה [Between Times: Ritual and Text in a Changing Society] (pp. 93-118). Carmel Israel. 2021
“Jewish Pride in Rabbi Avraham Danzig’s Haye Adam as Instantited in the Alenu Hymn” in Studies in Judaism Humanities and the Social Sciences Volume 3.1, Spring 2021.
“Marginal Person and/or Marginal Situation: The Convert in Mishnah” in Exploring Mishnah’s World(s): Social Scientific Approaches Pagrave, Macmillan 2020.
“The Land of Israel is Holier Than All Lands”: Diaspora in Mishnah’s Cosmos-The Message” in Exploring Mishnah’s World(s): Social Scientific Approaches Pagrave, Macmillan 2020.
“Dignity or Debasement: The Destitute in the World of Mishnah” in Exploring Mishnah’s World(s): Social Scientific Approaches Pagrave, Macmillan 2020.
“Can Halakhic Texts Talk Magic?”, in From Something to Nothing: Jewish Mysticism in Contemporary Canadian Jewish Studies, Harry Fox, Daniel Maoz and Tirzah Meacham editors, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England, 2019.
Edward C. Halperin, Simcha Fishbane, and Kevin Alter, “An 1899 Postal Card Offers a Unique Insight Into American Jewish History” in Studies in Judaism Humanities and the Social Sciences Volume 2.2, Spring 2019.
“Minhag in the Haye Adam: The Case of Kitniyot on Passover” in Studies in Judaism Humanities and the Social Sciences Volume 2.2, spring 2019.
“Mipnei Darkei Shalom: The Promotion of Harmonious Relationships in the Mishnah’s Social Order” in Is Judaism Democratic? Reflections from Theory and Practice Throughout the Ages Leonard J. Greenspoon editor, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana 2018.
“Esoteric Halakhah in Abraham Danzig’s Hayye Adam” in Jews of Europe and the Middle East: Culture and History, Languages and Literature, Issue14, International Academic Conference Proceedings, St. Petersburg Russia, April 22, 2018.
“No “Right”- of- Passage? The Rabbinic Dispute regarding the Propriety of Bat Mitzvah Celebrations” in Dynamics of Continuity and Change in Jewish Religious Life Simcha Fishbane and Levine Eric, Touro College Press, Boston 2018.
“Mipnei Darkei Shalom: The Promotion of Harmonious Relationships in the Mishnah’s Social Order” in Studies in Judaism Humanities and the Social Sciences Volume 1:1 autumn 2017.
“No ‘Right’ of Passage? The Rabbinic Dispute Regarding the Propriety of Bat Mitzvah Celebrations; (abridged version)” in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2017.
“In the Interest of Peace: The Promotion of Harmonious Relationships in the Mishnah” in En Route: The official Journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values, July 2016.
“Holy and Licit Magic and Halakha: The Case of the Arukh Hashulchan” in the Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2016.
“Behind the Purim Mask: The Symbolic Representation of the Rituals and Customs of Purim” in Contention, Controversy and Change: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience Volume 2, Fishbane Simcha and Eric Levine, Touro University Press, Boston 2016.
“Back to the Yeshiva: The Social Dynamics of an Orthodox Sabbath Morning Service” in Contention, Controversy and Change: Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience Volume 2, Fishbane Simcha and Eric Levine, Touro University Press, Boston 2016.
“From Magic to Jewish Law: The Incorporation of Magic into the Jewish Codes” in From Something to Nothing: Jewish Mysticism in Contemporary Studies in Canada, Daniel Maoz and Harry Fox editors, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England 2016. (In Press)
“We Didn’t Start the Fire…”: A Look at Jewish Symbolism” En Route: The official Journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values, Volume 1, Issue 4 2014.
“Intoxication on Purim” in the Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2013.
“In the Absence of Ritual: Customs of the Holiday of Shavuot” in the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2012.
The Symbolic Representation of Sefer Torah” (Short version) in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2011.
“The Symbolic Representation of Sefer Torah” in Maqom Journal for Rabbinic Literature (online) Volume XXI, summer 2011.
“The Symbolic Representation of the Sefer Torah in the Religion of Israel” in Genesi, 2011.
“Jewish Beards: The Symbolic Representation of the Rabbinic Beard” in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2010
“Count Your Blessings” Jewish Mourning Rituals During the Spring Season (Sefirat Haomer)” in Vixens Disturbing Vineyards: Embarrassment and Embracement of Scriptures: Festschrift in Honor of Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) edited by Tzemah Yoreh, Aubrey, Justin Jaron Lewis and Miryam Segal Academic Studies Press 2010.
“Does Judaism Give Women Time Off for Good Behavior? The Case of Women Working on Rosh Hodesh” Questions of Jewish History, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference of Jewish Studies Part 2, pp. 105-127, 2009.
“The Ritual of Kapparot” The Jewish Journal of Sociology, volume 50, nos. 1 and 2, 2008.
With Ira Robinson, “Ketavim Hadashim shel R. Yitzhak Nissenbaum” (Hebrew) in Turim volume two, edited by Michael A. Shmidman, Touro College Press, 2008.
“Voodoo or Judaism, The Ritual of Kapparot” in Folk Medicine and Magic in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition Sefer, Moscow 2007.
“Mercy is Vouchsafed from Heaven: Halakha’s Response to Violence as Expressed in the Arukh Hashulchan Orach Haim Sections 560 and 576-8” in Jewish Studies in Violence Fishbane Simcha and Farber Roberta editors, UPA 2006.
“Every Dream Becomes Valid Only by its Interpretation – Dreams, Dream Interpretations and Dream Interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud” in Dreams and Visions in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Russia 2006.
“The Structure and Implicit Message of Mishnah Tractate Nazir, ” in The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective, Part Two.Edited by Jacob Neusner and Alan J. Avery-Peck.Brill, Leiden, Boston, and Koln, Brill, 2006.
“In the Case of Women-Any Hand Which Makes Many Examinations is to be Praised Niddah as Viewed by the Rabbis of the Mishnah” Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies ,2005
“Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil. The Physically Handicapped in the Mishnah” in Problems of Jewish Identity in Memoriam of Professor Eugene Weiner Sefer, Moscow 2004.
“The Case of the Modified Mamzer in Early Rabbinic Texts” Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies 2004.

“Codification of Jewish Law – Modern” in The Encyclopedia of Judaism Volume IV, edited by Jacob Neusner, Allan Avery-Peck, William Scott Green, Brill Leiden – Boston, Netherlands 2003.
“Mercy is Vouchsafed from Heaven: Halakhah’s Response to Violence as Expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan’s Orach Haim – Sections 560 and 576-81” in Proceedings of the Tenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow 2003.
“The Homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein, the First Sermon”, Proceedings of the Tenth World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem, 2001.
“Four East European 19th Century Jewish Legal Works” in in Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow 2001.
“Secular Studies are the Supplement of Torah Studies: Kol Ben Levi – The Homilies of Rabbi Yehiel Mechel Halevi Epstein – The First Sermon” in The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism edited by A. Avery-Peck, W. S. Green and Jacob Neusner, Brill, Lieden-Boston-koln, 2000.
“Jewish Education in the Former Soviet Union” The Encyclopedia of Judaism Volume 3, edited by Jacob Neusner, Allan Avery-Peck, William Scott Green, Brill Leiden – Boston – Koln, Netherlands 2000.
“The Prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud” The Journal of Ascetics Volume 6, 1999 (in Russian).
“Go Enjoy Your Acquisition’ The Prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud” Approaches to Ancient Judaism Volume 13, Jacob Neusner editor Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia 1998.
“The Boldness of a Halakhist: Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and Modernity” The Interactiopn of Scientific and Jewish Cultures in Modern Times edited by Yakov Rabkin and Ira Robinson The Edwin Mellen Press, Jewish Studies, Volume 14, Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter 1995.
“Back to the Yeshiva: The Social Dynamics of an Orthodox Sabbath Morning Service” Ritual and Ethnic Identity edited by Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird, Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo Ontario Canada, 1995
“Contemporary Bar Mitzvah Rituals in Modern Orthodoxy” edited by Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird, Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo Ontario Canada, 1995
Jewish Morning Rites a Process of Resocialization” ” edited by Jack Lightstone and Frederick Bird, Wilfrid Laurier Press, Waterloo Ontario Canada, 1995
“A Female Rite of Passage in a Montreal Modern Orthodox Synagogue: the Bat Mitzvah Ceremony “ in Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century edited by Ira Robinson and Mervin Butovsky, Vehicule Press, Montreal 1995.
“Most Women Engage in Sorcery: An Analysis of Sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud” Jewish History Volume 7 number 1, Spring 1993.
“In Any Case There are no Sinful Thoughts”: The Role and Status of Women in Jewish Law as Expressed in the Arukh Hashulchan, Judaism Volume 42, number 4, Fall 1993.
“Is it a Crime to be Interdisciplinary? A Different Approach to the Study of Modern Jewish Law” Religion in History, The Word the Idea, the Reality edited by Michel Despland and Gerard Vallee, Wilfrid Laurier Press, Canada 1992.
“About a Letter of Yosef Zakharia Stern, the Remembered Rabbi of Shaulai, Lithuania” in Journal of the Jewish University in Moscow, No. 1, Moscow 1992. (Russian)
“Modernity and Change Amongst East European Jewry at the End of the 19th Century”, in the Festschrift The Divine Life, Light and Love, a Festschrift in Honour of Petro B.T. Bilaniuk, 1992.
“Mekitve Harav Yosef Z. Stern” Hadarom 1991.
“A Response to the Challenge of the Modern Era as Reflected in the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein”,The Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society vol. 2. Ktav Publishing, 1991.
“Towards an Understanding of the Methodology of Mishnah: The Case of Kutim” Journal of Religion and Culture Volume 5, spring 1991.
“Igrot Baal Arukh Hashulkhan: Harav Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein”, Moriah, no. 7-8, Tishrei 1991. (Hebrew)
“Binyan Nisiut Kapayim Vshinui Haminhagim Haze”, Or Hamizrach, Volume 29, no. 3-4. Nisan-Tamuz 1991. (Hebrew)
The Ideal Rabbinic Society: An Analysis of Sugyat Bet Knesset in Babylonian Talmud Megillah 25b-29a”, The Journal for Rabbis in Academia, Volume 1, No 1, 1991.
“Is It a Crime to be Interdisciplinary: A Different Approach to the Study of Modern Jewish Law” in The Word, the Idea, the Reality.
“Method and Form in Halakhic Literature: A Different Approach to the Study of Modern Jewish Law”, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, No. 1 Vol. 2, Spring 1990.
“Long Live the Tsar: Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein and the Russian Government”, Proceedings of the Tenth World Jewish Congress.
“The Super-Legal Materials in Israel Mayer Hacohen’s Mishnah Berurah” in The Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society, Concordia University 1990.
“Jewish Mourning Rites – A Process of Resocialization”, Anthropologica, No. 2, 1990.
“Back to the Yeshiva: A Social-Anthropological Study of a Prayer Service in a Shtibel”, Paradigms, Winter 1988-89.
“Contemporary Bar Mitzvah Rituals in Modern Orthodoxy”, Journal of Religion and Culture, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1987.
“A Study of Rituals Related to the Israelite Soldier in the Torah and Mishnah”, Journal of Religion and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1987.
“Legitimizing War in Judaism”, Arc, Vol. XIII, No. 2, spring 1986.
Mafteach leMachanaim, (Hebrew), Editor, I.D.F., Israel, 1982.
“The Foundation of Kollel American Tifereth Jerusalem”, American Jewish Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXIX, No. 2, December 1974.
BOOK REVIEWS
Shlusinger Shlomo -Shear Yashuv (editor) Kovetz Massad: Hebrew Camping in North America Volume II (Hebrew), Jerusalem, Irgun Machanot “Massad” B’Yisraelmand Alumni of Massad Camps in USA, 1989.
Goldberg H. (editor), Judaism from Within and Without: Anthropological Studies, Albany (Suny) Press, 1986, in the Journal of Religion and Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2 Spring 1988.
Hubberband Rabbi Shimon, David E. Fishman (trans.), Jeffrey S. Gurock and Robert S. Hirt (editors), Kiddush Hashem; Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust, New York, Yeshiva University Press 1987.
PUBLICATIONS: PARA-ACADEMIC
“Religious Zionism and Orthodox Unity”, Tzomet, New York, summer 1985.
A Century of Torah Life in Eretz Yisrael, American Zionist Youth Foundation, New York, 1984.
“Formalizing Informal Education”, Tzomet, New York, Winter 1984.
Sichot HaRav HaRashi LeTzahal, Vols. 1-2, (Hebrew), I.D.F., Israel, 1981-82.