This meticulously researched study is based on a comprehensive reading of all the major Jewish sources from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the daw

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Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western

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