Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza
Compilation by David B. Ruderman
About
- 1.On Studying Jewish History
- 2.The Rabbinic Legacy Prior to Islam
- 3.The Beginnings of Jewish Life Under Islam
- 4.Baghdad and the Gaonic Age
- 5.Saadia Gaon and His World
- 6.The Philosophy of Saadia Gaon
- 7.The Rise of the Spanish Jewish Community
- 8.Judah Ha-Levi’s Cultural Critique
- 9.Moses Maimonides’s Philosophy of Judaism
- 10.Jewish Beginnings in Christian Europe
- 11.The Church and the Jews Prior to 1096
- 12.The Crusades and the Jews
- 13.Patterns of Jewish Culture — Rabbinic Learning
- 14.Patterns of Jewish Culture — Kabbalah
- 15.Patterns of Jewish Culture — German Pietism
- 16.The Medieval Jewish-Christian Debate
- 17.Understanding Medieval Anti-Semitism
- 18.Notes on the Medieval Jewish Family
- 19.The Decline and Expulsion of Spanish Jewry
- 20.Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Period
- 21.Kabbalah and Society in 16th-Century Safed
- 22.Shabbetai Zevi — The Mystical Messiah
- 23.The Rise of Eastern European Jewry
- 24.The Sephardim of Amsterdam