...This chapter examines the emergence of expulsion as a political practice in England. It considers the shifting logics that inspired and justified the forced removal of Jews and foreigners from the accession of Henry II in the mid-twelfth century through the long reign of his grandson Henry III...

...This chapter explores how late medieval legal scholars and ecclesiastical authorities began to question the limits of the church's traditional opposition to the expulsion of Jews in light of new ideas about Jewish usury and new interpretations of legal doctrine. Could canon law—long a bulwark...

...In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand. As Jews everywhere rejected the traditional laws of Judaism in favor of new norms established by Sabbetai Zevi, and abandoned...

... to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world. Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, the book tells the ongoing story of how Jews...

...Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. This book shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted...

...Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, they were made to march en masse toward the sermon and sit through it, all the while scrutinized by local Christians, foreign visitors, and potential...

... considers one of the factors that made Roman law and jurisdiction particularly challenging for the Jews, beyond its intrinsic connection with Roman rule, which was the Romans' claim that their laws were far superior to those of other peoples. The chapter analyzes the relationship between Roman and Jewish...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Shamama case, which highlights the concept of “legal belonging.” The neutral category of legal belonging allows one to observe the ways in which the furnace of nationalist fervor forged new molds of inclusion and exclusion, especially for Jews...

.... ‘Aziza, Moshe, and Nissim Jr., 1868 (courtesy of Gilles Boulu) Figure 4.5. The crest atop Nissim’s palazzo in Livorno This chapter focuses on Nissim Shamama's move to Livorno, Italy. By Mediterranean standards, Livorno is a modern city. For Jews, Livorno counted among the most famous havens...

.... But before the ambitious young lawyer could demonstrate why Nissim died a Tunisian, he had to address a more basic question: whether a Jew like Nissim could even be a Tunisian national. In order to have Tunisian law applied as Nissim's national law, Pierantoni had to prove that Tunisian Jews were just...

...This chapter evaluates the performance of Jewishness by non-Jews. It asks what cultural appropriation means in the Polish context before turning to the analysis of multicultural utopias embodied in the discovery, recovery, and performance of Jewish culture by non-Jewish Poles. To make sense...

... the conversionary pulpit served some conversionary preachers as a stepping-stone to greater glory, while for others it was a strategic career obligation or a lifetime calling. The chapter introduces conversionary preachers and reconstructs their lives, showing that preaching to Jews immediately became a point...

... between her own good fortune and the Jewish doctor's plight. In her attitudes, worldview, self-image, and other psychological characteristics, Beatrix captures the themes commonly voiced by other bystanders interviewed for this study. bystanders concentration camps Jews The Hague South Africa emotion...

...This introductory chapter discusses the cultural exchange between Jews and Christians in the High and Late Middle Ages. Members of each group contributed to the other's culture, even to their religious practices. Jews would often have in their possession artistic objects from the surrounding...

...This chapter briefly reviews the art history from 1230–1450 CE in order to better understand the cultural profile of the rabbi, and to evaluate the contribution of the wall paintings in his house as indications of the artistic horizons of German Jews of the fourteenth century. It also shows how...

... at the expense of tradition and memorization, the chapter demonstrates the centrality of this preference to the self-perception of the Talmud's creators and situates it within a polemical conversation among Jews in late ancient Mesopotamia. identity and self–conception rabbinic memorization recitation Torah...

... relationship with Christianity in an entirely different light. The book demonstrates how the Jews of the pre-Christian Second Temple period had various names for a second heavenly power—such as Son of Man, Son of the Most High, and Firstborn before All Creation. The book traces the development of the concept...

... for the Polish–Lithuanian Jews wherever they now found themselves. This book examines this refugee crisis in detail. At its heart are three major questions. The first asks how Jewish society reacted to the persecution and violence suffered by the Jews of Poland–Lithuania. The second question asks about...

...This chapter details how the Polish nobility and the Jews fled from the Khmelnytsky uprising, which took many forms, depending on the circumstances. The uprising began in early 1648 with the fomenting of unrest in the Cossack heartland of Zaporizhia, particularly the region of the lower Dniepr...

...This chapter addresses how some of the Jewish captives were bought by professional slave merchants for resale elsewhere—most commonly Istanbul or Iran. With Jews so deeply engaged in the slave trade, it is surprising that so few of the Jewish captives from Ukraine following 1648 were actually...