Noam Sien­na is a his­to­ri­an of Jew­ish cul­ture in the medieval and ear­ly mod­ern peri­ods, with a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties in the Islam­ic world. His first book, A Rain­bow Thread: An Anthol­o­gy of Queer Jew­ish Texts from the First Cen­tu­ry to 1969 (Philadel­phia: Print-o-Craft Press, 2019), was award­ed the 2020 Ref­er­ence Award from the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries.