One of the thorniest problems for the writing of medieval Jewish social history is the paucity of source materials. Yet even where documentary materials such as the Cairo Geniza do remain, scholars ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council's Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday, September 25. This event ...

I am starting The Jewish Curry Culture Club as a space to explore Jewish history and diaspora – not as nostalgia, not as identity performance, but as a serious historical archive. Recipes, techniques, ...

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(JTA) — A United Nations committee designated a group of medieval Jewish buildings in Erfurt, Germany, as a World Heritage Site on Sunday. UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural ...

(JTA) — When Robert Chazan was studying toward his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the mid-1960s, few major American universities were offering positions to Jewish studies scholars. The field was ...

BERLIN >> A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been added to ...

BERLIN (AP) — A U.N. committee has named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site. It’s the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been added ...

How medieval stories about desecrating the Eucharist were used to justify the murder of Jews. Christians are unlikely to be persuaded, unless they have already all but checked out of the faith. How ...