The disputation in Barcelona 750 years ago between the one-time Jew Pablo Christiani and Rabbi Moses ben Nahman may have marked the first use of. . .

Why does Nahmanides, medieval champion of Judaism against the Catholic Church, say that the Babylonian exile annulled the covenant?

In Catalonia, Spain, the scene of centuries of Jewish hopes and achievement, a student of Jewish history is beset by a torrent of emotions. (1981)