Middle Ages

When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.

Martin Lockshin
Oct. 16 2018 12:01AM

Swords, dragons, and burning talmuds.

Alan Verskin
Sept. 27 2018 12:01AM

The Ḥasidey Ashkenaz and God’s wonders.

Dana Fishkin
March 14 2018 12:01AM

A 14th-century rabbinic debate on the purpose of the legal system.

Feb. 9 2018 12:01AM

Despite the silly claims of two computer scientists.

Feb. 7 2018 12:01AM

The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.

Peter Harrison
Jan. 4 2018 12:01AM

The Günzburg collection.

Ofer Aderet
Nov. 15 2017 12:01AM

Books were burned, but Judaism went unextinguished.

Sarah Ifft Decker
Oct. 31 2017 12:01AM

Including a liturgy almost identical to that used today.

Yoel Finkleman and Ofir Haim
Oct. 19 2017 12:01AM

Jewishness was the “hand inside the puppet” of Christian Europe.

David Mikics
Aug. 3 2017 12:01AM

The book burning in 13th-century Paris.

Lawrence Schiffman
July 31 2017 12:01AM

“The man who wrote that book died many years ago.”

Robert E. Norton
March 1 2017 12:01AM

Cantor, Kantorowicz, and Frederick II.

Michael Lipkin
Dec. 6 2016 12:01AM