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Jews, Economic Metaphors, and the Healthy Body Politic: The Jewish Role in Christian Economic Narratives and the Birth of Modern Economics
The linguistic structure of the Western Christian discourse about economics as resembling and symbolizing the entire logic of earthly government and...
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Jewish Communities and Antisemitism in Greece: Nineteenth-Century Conflict and the Rise of Political Antisemitism
In this chapter, an overview of the two dominant Jewish communities that populated the Greek lands is discussed. The dynamics between the Romaniotes...
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Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions
In this chapter I retrace the historical “othering” of the Jews through a discussion of the semantic changes in antisemitic discourse centered on the...
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The Conflation of Judaism and Islam in Hernando de Talavera’s Conversion Plan
This article aims to show that Hernando de Talavera’s evangelization strategies toward Muslims and Muslim converts in Granada (1492–1507) cannot be...
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Reading Against the Grain, Readings of Substitution: Catholic Books as Inspiration for Judaism in Early Modern Iberia
Forced conversion produced a large number of converts, many or at least some of whom sought to continue to practice their former religion. For many...
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The Catholic Church
Studies of Christian antisemitism and anti-Judaism have often been focused on texts to demonstrate continuity and transformation of anti-Jewish...
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Home and Away: The Opposition to Travel in Sefer Ḥasidim
This paper examines R. Judah he-Ḥasid’s approach towards journeys to distant places, including pilgrimage to the land of Israel. Unlike other...
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Exploring Islam and International Relations in the Post-Colonial Maghreb
In the late twentieth century, Berbers, the original inhabitants of North Africa, were estimated to be still half of Morocco’s population and a...
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Sino-German Relations, Historiography, and Organization
This introduction addresses the three following topics. The first section provides a brief overview of the history of Sino-German relations between...
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Trade Relations Between Sicily, Ifrīqiya, and Egypt Under the Fatimids and Zirids of Ifrīqiya (Tenth–Eleventh Centuries)
The conquest of Ifrı̄qiya and Sicily by the Fatimid caliphs placed the two territories in a situation of increasing economic and political...
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Framing the Narrative of the Indochinese Diaspora: The Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, Domestic Political Actors, and U.S. Foreign Relations
This chapter explores the evolution of the American response to the Indochinese diaspora from 1975 until the 1979 Geneva Conference on Indochinese...
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Artistic and Cultural Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
This book analyses the artistic and cultural legacy of Western Islamic societies and their interactions with Islamic, Christian and Jewish societies...
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“The Assumption of an Indian or Egyptian Priest is just as Good, to Our Thinking, as the Assumption of a Christian Priest”: Secularism and Comparative Religion, Imagining a Secular World
This chapter examines the role of comparative religion in the development of the secularist critique of Christianity. Freethinkers drew from...
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Major Trends in the Historiography of European Ashkenazic Jews from the 1970s to the Present
This article focuses on shifts in Jewish historiography of Ashkenazic Jews in Europe of the pre-modern period. It describes the denouement of...
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Jews “Holding the Keys to the Church” and the Posthumous Career of Zelman Wolfowicz of Drohobych
At the end of the nineteenth century in the historiography and popular writing of the three nationalities living in what was then Habsburg...
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Seeing the Substance: Rhetorical Muslims and Christian Holy Objects in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Accusations of Host Desecration against Jews began to appear in the late thirteenth century (Paris, 1290) and became increasingly common in the...
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From Thieves to Martyrs: The Story of Two Jews from Early Modern Moravia
This paper focuses on the story of two Jewish men who were convicted of theft and executed in Prostějov, Moravia, in the spring of 1684. Although the...
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The Lord’s Justice: Blood Libel, Legalism, and Neighborly Negotiation in an Eighteenth-Century Private Town
This article discusses a series of investigations from 1729 to 1730 into an alleged ritual murder in the town of present-day Niasvizh. In the...
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Anti-Judaism
“Anti-Judaism” has become an attractive alternative to anti-Semitism to characterize the hatred or persecution visited upon Jews in ancient,...