The Maharam of Rothenburg, one of the greatest medieval rabbis, was kidnapped by Christians and ransomed for an exorbitant sum, ...

Although the Black Death devastated all Europe, for the Jews it is was compounded by Christian persecution that blamed them ...

During the 1200s, persecutions pushed Ashkenazic-European Jewry to the precipice of physical and spiritual extinction. But three men turned everything ...

In 1242, Louis IX, later St. Louis, had 24 cartloads of the Talmud burned, effectively ending Jewish life in France ...

Between blood libels, pogroms, the burning of the Talmud and expulsions from England and France in the 13th century, it ...

Even as the situation of the Jews in Christian Europe rapidly deteriorated, one sage put his stamp on Jewry for ...

The knights of the First Crusade were unholy warriors who killed 25,000 innocent Jews on the way to conquer the ...

The Crusades changed all of Jewish life in Europe. It changed the attitude of Christians towards Jews and Jews toward ...

For 900 years, no Jew studies Torah or Talmud without Rashi. He is the guiding hand and gentle teacher who ...

The Jews fulfilled three roles in Europe: money-lender, scapegoat and harbinger of new ideas. All three made him necessary as ...