Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery

By Bernard Lewis

"With elegance and erudition, Lewis explores that climactic year of 1492 as a clash of civilizations - a clash not only of the New World and the Old but also of Christendom, Islam, and the Jews. In...

Daily Life of the Jews in the Middle Ages

By Norman Roth

The false messiah

By Leonard Wolf

Jewish Life in the Middle Ages

By Israel Abrahams

Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism

By Robert Chazan

The twelfth century in Europe has been hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, setting the stage for the subsequent flowering of European thought. Robert Chazan point...

The Jews of Europe after the Black Death

By Anna Foa

"Anna Foa's history of Jewish life in Europe from the fourteenth century through the nineteenth concentrates on the creative aspects of Jewish life and on continuities and correspondences among ver...

Tradition and crisis

By Jacob Katz

The cardinal's snuffbox

By Kenneth Roseman

An adventure story set during the Spanish Inquisition, in which an eleven-year-old Jewish child must decide whether to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain forever. The reader makes decisions that...

The French monarchy and the Jews

By Jordan William C.

The Jewish travellers in the twelfth century

By Yosef Levanon