Medieval Jewish History

Jews the world over will celebrate the holiday of Chanuka this month. Chanuka is a difficult holiday to define. It...

The great fortifications that the Hasmonean kings built and a law about Chanukah that teaches us a tremendous lesson about...

Messianic beliefs die hard and even survive the death of obviously failed dead messiahs. Such was the case with Sabbatai...

Many non-Jews such as Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy have penned keen insights into the Jewish people. Paul Johnson in...

Schechter is credited with discovering the Cairo Genizah but it was really a little-known Jew by the name of Yosef...

Sir Herbert Samuel was the first British High Commissioner of Palestine, but found his conscience torn between dual loyalties.

The issue of Arab demographics before and during the pre- and early Zionist period has long been a sore point....

The printing press changed civilization. Among its changes was a new area of Jewish law: copyright, which predated non-Jewish copyright...

Solomon ibn Gabirol is considered one of the primary philosopher-poets in Jewish history. His masterpiece, Keter Malchut, is the poem...

During the Black Death, Jews were accused of well poisoning. As a result they changed a nuance of the age-old...