Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographi

This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-hold

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The constraints of the ghetto and the concomitant interaction of various Jewish traditions produced a remarkable cultural flowering.

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