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  • How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new waysIn medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages. Although the Jews in medieval Europe are usually thought to have been isolated from the Christian majority, they actually were part of a 'Jewish-Christian symbiosis.' A number of studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian cultural and social ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Jewish Mystical Leaders and Leadership in the 13th Century

    Edited by Moshe Idel, Mortimer Ostow, Ivan G. Marcus, Israel M. Ta-Shma, Paul B. Fenton ...
    To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Rituals of Childhood

    Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe

    by Professor Ivan G. Marcus ...
    In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Jewish Life Cycle

    Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
    In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • "Sefer Hasidim" and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Composed in Germany in the early thirteenth century by Judah ben Samuel he-hasid, Sefer Hasidim, or "Book of the Pietists," is a compendium of religious instruction that portrays the everyday life of Jews as they lived together with and apart from Christians in towns such as Speyer, Worms, Mainz, and Regensburg. A charismatic religious teacher who recorded hundreds of original stories that ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    How the West Became Antisemitic

    Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800-1500

    by Ivan G. Marcus ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God's chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Collected interviews and addresses by the "Jewish cardinal" that treat such diverse topics as his conversion, the State of Israel, the Shoah, and Jewish-Christian relations. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Josephus

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    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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  • Beautiful Death

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    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
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  • Jesus in the Talmud

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    Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly detailed, and accessible book, Peter Schäfer examines how the rabbis of the Talmud read, understood, and used the New Testament Jesus narrative to assert, ultimately, Judaism's superiority over Christianity.The ... Read more

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