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  • Writing Plague

    Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Writing Plague

    Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • After the Black Death

    Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surprisingly, there is little Jewish writing extant that directly addresses the impact of the plague, or ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • After the Black Death

    Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surprisingly, there is little Jewish writing extant that directly addresses the impact of the plague, or ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Beautiful Death

    Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the ... Read more

    $72.79 USD

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  • Maimonides

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    An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophilesMoses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138–1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician, Maimonides fled Córdoba with his family when he was thirteen due to Almohad persecution of all non-Islamic ... Read more

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  • Jewish Blood

    Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture

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  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

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    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Read more

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