The book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.

Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyr

This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this

Akiva Cohen investigates the general research question: how do the authors of religious texts reconstruct their community identity and ethos in the absence of t