Traces developments during three thousand years of Jewish cultural, intellectual, and social history

This is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. The more than 150 alp

This book presents a synthetic history of the family--the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities--in Germany and northern France during the Hi

This book explains why the best way to understand the Jewish historical experience is to look at Jewish people, not just as a religious or ethnic group or a nat