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    Items with the tag:

    middle ages & medieval period

    Cover of People of the Image: Jews and Art
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    Peo­ple of the Image: Jews and Art
    Marc Michael Epstein
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    Chil­dren’s
    The For­bid­den Book
    Sacha Lamb
    Essay

    Not So(w) Kosher? Nine Jew­ish Facts About the Pig

    Jor­dan D. Rosenblum
    October 7, 2024
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    For­bid­den: A 3,000-Year His­to­ry of Jews and the Pig
    Jor­dan D. Rosenblum
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    Fic­tion
    Rebec­ca of Ivanhoe
    Ali­son Bass
    Cover of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
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    Jerusalem Falls: Sev­en Cen­turies of War and Peace
    John D. Hosler
    Cover of Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage
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    Jews, Food, and Spain: The Old­est Medieval Span­ish Cook­book and the Sephardic Culi­nary Heritage
    Hélène Jawhara Piñer
    Cover of Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
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    Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages
    Eli­she­va Baumgarten
    Cover of England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century
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    Eng­land’s Jews: Finance, Vio­lence, and the Crown in the Thir­teenth Century
    John Tolan
    Cover of Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
    Non­fic­tion
    Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
    Cover of The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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    The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
    Cather­ine Fletcher
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    The Eight Knights of Hanukkah
    Leslie Kimmelman, Galia Bernstein (illus.)
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    JBC Authors at the Table: Gail Car­son Levine

    Gail Car­son Levine
    June 15, 2020
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    Gob­s­macked by Medieval Spain

    Gail Car­son Levine
    May 26, 2020
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Ceil­ing Made of Eggshells
    Gail Car­son Levine
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    Excerpt: The Convert

    Ste­fan Hertmans
    April 28, 2020
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