Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council's Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday, September 25. This event ...

One of the thorniest problems for the writing of medieval Jewish social history is the paucity of source materials. Yet even where documentary materials such as the Cairo Geniza do remain, scholars ...

Jews rebuilt their community in the decades after a pogrom and before the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. (JTA) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York ...

For the first time in 800 years, the British city of York, whose Jewish population was decimated in a medieval pogrom, will be home to a rabbi. Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California ...

BERLINBERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been ...

(JTA) — When Robert Chazan was studying toward his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the mid-1960s, few major American universities were offering positions to Jewish studies scholars. The field was ...

A United Nations committee designated a group of medieval Jewish buildings in Erfurt, Germany, as a World Heritage Site on Sunday. UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, ...

How medieval stories about desecrating the Eucharist were used to justify the murder of Jews. Christians are unlikely to be persuaded, unless they have already all but checked out of the faith. How ...

Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California last week after decades of pulpit work in the United States, Switzerland and South Africa. (JTA) — For the first time in 800 years, the British ...