Most Roman Jews were not immigrants; some had been there before the time of Christ. Nor were they cultural strangers: they spoke (Roman) Italian, and ate and dressed as did…

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…

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, and…