Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Compilation by David B. Ruderman

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

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