Medieval Jewish History

"The Jew's Sow," a 600-year-old sculpture on Regensburg Cathedral. The sculpture faces the old Jewish quarter...

Gilad Shalit, IDF soldier held captive by Hamas since June 2006 The issue of the redemption...

Plaque at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Photo by David Shay. Published under the...

  The Rambam's house in Fez, Morocco Just as with Rashi, it is impossible for the...

Two Sephardic Jews with an Ashkenazi in Jerusalem, 1895 The two main pillars on which all...

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki One of the tendencies of modern historiography is to debunk past heroes. Revisionist...

Amschel Mayer Rothschild In the Middle Ages, the Church, in a misapplication of the Biblical prohibition...

Kai Feng Jews A Christian merchant in 12th century London once remarked, “As long as Isaac...

The Ari Synagogue. Photo by Larry Mastria. Let me say at the outset that I am...