Jewish Archive
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York’s Blackest Hour
Posted on May 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe infamous Shabbos HaGadol massacre of the Jews of York in 1190 was the most notorious example of anti-Semitism in medieval England. -
The Stealing of the “Apple of Eve” from the 13th century Synagogue of Winchester
Posted on April 21, 2012 | No CommentsIn January 1252, King Henry III sent a remarkable writ to the sheriff of Hampshire. -
Social alienation and political subversion: Anti-Judaism in medieval Spanish music
Posted on April 17, 2012 | No CommentsIn this thesis, the prevalence of anti-Judaism in the music of Christian Spain from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century is explored. -
A partnership culture: Jewish economic and social life seen through the legal documents of the Cairo Geniza
Posted on April 8, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation explores economic partnership relations in the Jewish community of medieval Egypt, primarily as described in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. -
The Illumination of the Worms Mahzor: Description and Iconographical Study
Posted on April 7, 2012 | No CommentsTo understand the decoration programme of the Worms Mahzor it is essential to comprehend the structure of the text of the Ashkenazi mahzorim, since the illumination bears a direct rela- tionship to it. -
Birds’ Head Haggadah – scholar gives new insights into Jewish medieval text
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe Birds' Head Haggadah, a manuscript dating from around the year 1300, is considered one of the most interesting and mysterious pieces of Jewish art from the Middle Ages. -
Exile from England: The Expulsion of the Jews in 1290
Posted on March 24, 2012 | No CommentsThis essay examines the relationship between the economy, the church, and the government of thirteenth century England, and her Jewish residents, in order to determine which, if any, had the greatest influence on the expulsion of the Jews, and in order to understand how one group of people—once vital to a nation—could be summarily expelled. -
First Performance in 400 Years for Medieval Passover Music
Posted on March 24, 2012 | No CommentsToronto Jewish High School Choir Revives Lost Tunes -
Walking in the Shadows of the Past: The Jewish Experience of Rome in the Twelfth Century
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsDuring this pivotal century and within the special microcosm of Rome, Jews and Christians experienced unusually robust cultural and social interactions, especially as the Jews increasingly aligned themselves with the protective power of the papacy. -
Jewish Communal Organisation in Sixteenth-Century Polish Towns
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsTherefore, this essay will deal not only with the structures of Jewish communal organisation proper, but also with the question of its emergence and development in the context of its non-Jewish environment. -
Towards a History of Tolerance: Christian Attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the Middle Ages
Posted on March 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe sometimes benign, often neutral or mildly hostile, occasionally horrifically violent history of inter-faith relations from the time of the First Crusade in the mid-twelfth century through to the end of the fifteenth century forms the backdrop to much of what I have to say -
The art of medicine: Midwives and obstetric catastrophe: retrieving the past
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsFor the historian, however, and for any healer with an eye for the human dimensions of medicine, the story has just begun. For Floreta is, in fact, the first known European midwife to be put on trial for the death of a mother in childbirth. Indeed, she is charged not with simple medical negligence, but with premeditated murder. -
The Urban Structure of the Jewish Quarter of Girona
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsThe studies that have been carried out to date on the tenth and eleventh-century Jewish community are rather few, in contrast to research done on the community in the twelfth century and thereafter, where documentary and archaeological sources abound. -
Bodleian Libraries Cairo Genizah collection now available online
Posted on March 5, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the store room to the web: Bodleian launches website featuring its 25,000 Cairo Genizah fragments -
Purim, Liminality, and Communitas
Posted on March 4, 2012 | No CommentsElaborate pageants, grotesque masks, drunken revelry, noisemaking, buffoonery, burning of effigies, costume parades, feasts with special delicacies, and every manner of carousing and merrymaking have characterized Purim since rabbinic times
