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One Jurist, Two Answers: Law, Advocacy, and Social Reality in the Jewish Community of the Medieval Islamicate World

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 ...
The Conversation

DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means

Shai Carmi is a paid consultant and holds stock options at MyHeritage. Harald Ringbauer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...
Yahoo

Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A medieval massacre nearly wiped out the Jews of York, England. New research shows how the community recovered.

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 ...
Princeton University

E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture: On How the West Became Antisemitic

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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

British city of York, site of a medieval pogrom, gets its first rabbi in 800 years

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 ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

UNESCO names Erfurt’s medieval Jewish buildings in Germany as a World Heritage Site

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 ...
The Forward

Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87

(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 ...
Yahoo

Vast trove of medieval Jewish records opened up by AI

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analysing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew ...
Newsday

UNESCO names Erfurt's medieval Jewish buildings in Germany as a World Heritage Site

BERLIN — 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 added to ...
The Jewish Exponent

British City of York, Site of a Medieval Pogrom, Gets its First Rabbi in 800 Years

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 ...