This volume recreates through a register and apt citation the first thousand acts of an archive known informally as the 'Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis
The “1007 Anonymous,” an imaginative if brief text composed in the third or early fourth decade of the thirteenth century, illustrates the proper relations between Jews, their lay rulers,
English translations of the second thousand acts of Roman rabbis recorded in an archive known as the Notai ebrei , which altogether contains about 10,000 acts from the years 1536-1640. They provide a
Jewish Dogs is not a study of "anti-Semitism" or "anti-Judaism." Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so metapho
Drawing from Hebrew civil documents, a U. of Haifa authority on Italian Jews applies his "social theater" concept to explain how Roman Jews survived 300 years of enforced ghetto living. Stow also touc
This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of
