First published in 1938, this sourcebook presents 137 documents that deal with individual Jews and the Jewish community during the Jewish Middle Ages. It offers a sweeping view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity until modern times, with introductions and annotations to make these sources accessible to the modern reader. For this new edition, Marc Saperstein has updated Muarcus's 96 bibliographies, providing references to modern scholarly research on each topic. In his introduction, he analyzes and evaluates Marcus's decision regarding periodization, organization and inclusion. In doing so, he offers further insights about the implications of those decisions for our own understanding of Jewish history.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Good source of sources!:
A good source of information about Jewish communities and individual Jews and their relationship with Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages. The documents and original sources quoted constitute a rich entry to bast world of knowledge for the scholar and the neophyte alike.
amazing:
This amazing book has 96 primary sources - excerpts from books and essays by and about pre-emancipation Jews, discussing topics as varied as Christian and Muslim oppression of Jews, Jewish religious law, Jewish false messiahs, and Jewish education. Some of the more interesting things I learned: *That Christian oppression of Jews began almost as soon as Christians took over the Roman Empire. Just a few years after Constantine (Rome's first Christian emperor) took power, he issued relatively mild... more info
