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Michael A. Meyer, Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 48.00 [pounds sterling] This review focuses on two outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century: [...]

Keith Kahn-Harris, Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and the Limits of Diversity, Repeater Books, 2019, [pounds sterling]10.99 On my home bookshelf I have ten books with titles beginning with the word [...]

Jeremy Cohen, A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 248 pp., $65.00/[pounds sterling]56.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4858-6 Hardback; Ebook, $65.00/[pounds [...]

The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers, by Olga Borovaya, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-253-02552-4 (hardback), 317 pp., $60.00 Moses Almosnino came from a family [...]

Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, New York, Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2014, xxi + 390 pp., ISBN 978-0-8050-7910-4 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8050-960109 (electronic book), [...]

Baumgarten, Elisheva, Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 334 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-4640-7 (hbk) Many treatments of medieval Jewish history [...]

Levie Bernfeld, Tirtsah, Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam, Oxford, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012, xvii + 590 pp., ISBN 978-1-904113-57-7 (hb). The Portuguese [...]