Cantor, Kantorowicz, and Frederick II.

A question of influence or of a common culture?

Affirmative-action curation.

Silk Road merchants’ correspondence.

William the Mamzer.

And where did modern Hebrew get its word for one?

Don’t call them feminists.

Blaming Jews was a way to get out of debt.

The birth of Jewish studies.

How the death of a boy in 12th-century England gave birth to a libel that won’t die.

On the relationship between philosophy and Judaism.

More than caftans and camels and dancing violinists.

Only sometimes.

The French city attracts a steady trickle of Jewish tourists.