Mitchell Hart and Nina Caputo published the edited volume On the Word of a Jew: Religion, Reliability, and the Dynamics of Trust with Indiana University Press in 2019. The essays examine how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. The authors reveal how caricatures of Jews moved through religious, political, and legal systems. While the volume is framed as an exploration of Jewish and Christian relations, it grapples with perceptions of Jews and Jewishness from the biblical period to today, from the Middle East to North America, and in Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Taken together these essays reflect on the mechanics of trust, and sometimes mistrust, in everyday interactions involving Jews.