Ancient/Medieval Jewish History

New, more fanatical Muslim rulers caused the quality of Jewish life in North Africa and Egypt to deteriorate during the 12th and 13th centuries.

Arabic was the spoken and written tongue of the Jews in the medieval Muslim empire, a fact that encouraged cultural exchange and the development of new forms for Hebrew poetry.

Medieval Jews found religious tolerance and economic opportunity in Poland

The accumulation of disasters in the Middle Ages--expulsions, crusades, and the Black Death, to name a few--inspired a steady stream of Jewish immigration to the Holy Land.

Scholar Norman Roth questions whether the idea of the medieval Church makes sense as a category of analysis for Jewish history.

In Muslim and Christian lands.

Jews in the Medieval Islamic Empire

Art as text.

Jews in Medieval Christendom. Jewish History from 632 - 1650. Medieval Jewish History. Jews in the Middle Ages.

From chants to niggunim.

The social and intellectual changes brought about by the advent of the printing press.

The Inquisition expanded its horrible reach