BERLIN (JTA) – They date back to the late Middle Ages and irritate to this day: The Judensau (literally “Jewish sow”) is a Christian folk image that depicts Jews sucking on the teats or ...

Key points Jewish life in Europe: Middle Ages - 1900s Map - The Jewish population in pre-war Europe Jewish life in Europe by 1933 Photos of Jewish life in pre-war Europe Jewish people had lived in ...

Likely originating from a Roman capital, the city of Manresa, Spain, has stood strong since the Middle Ages. In the centuries ...

Bringing together essays by an array of international scholars in a wide range of disciplines, Orientalism and the Jews demonstrates that, since the Middle Ages, Jews have been seen in the Western ...

This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. Whether they ...

They illustrate the life of the local Jewish community and its coexistence with a Christian majority in Central Europe during the Middle Ages, between the end of the 11th and the mid-14th century.

In 1819 the Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews was organized in Berlin, whose president from 1821-1824 was the ...