Rethinking European Jewish History

Note on Transliteration Jeremy Cohen: Introduction Part I Reorienting The Narrative 1 Moshe Rosman: Jewish History Across Borders 2 David Engel: Away from a Definition of Antisemitism: An Essay in the Semantics of Historical Description 3 Paula Hyman: Does Gender Matter? Locating Women in European Jewish History 4 Maud Mandel: Assimilation and Cultural Exchange in Modern Jewish History Part II From the Middle Ages to Modernity 5 David B. Ruderman: Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: An Agenda for Future Study 6 Miriam Bodian: The Reformation and the Jews 7 Gershon David Hundert: Re(de)fining Modernity in Jewish History Part III On the Eve of the Spanish Expulsion 8 David Nirenberg: Spanish 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' in an Age of Mass Conversion 9 Ram Ben-Shalom: The Social Context of Apostasy in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jewry: Dynamics of a New Religious Borderland PART IV FROM EUROPE TO AMERICA AND BACK 10 Daniel Soyer: Transnationalism and Mutual Influence: American and East European Jewries in the 1920s and 1930s 11 Judah M. Cohen: Transplanting the Heart Back East: Returning Jewish Musical Culture from the United States to Europe