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Disruption and Resilience in Late Medieval Ashkenaz

Year: 2024
Type: other
Abstract: New Book Volume for Dowload: Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity Historians have long considered the later Middle Ages as a period of cultural decline in European Jewish history. As far as Ashkenaz is concerned, i.e., the area of the medieval German kingdom and its adjacent regions, pogroms and persecutions loom large in the memories of late medieval Jews and of modern historians – and rightfully so. At the same time, the first roots of later »rural Jewry« have been identified in ...
Author: Andreas Lehnertz
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6955452109
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