TY  - BOOK
ED  - Chazan, Robert Leon
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - The Cambridge history of Judaism
T3  - Cambridge histories online
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Judaism ; History
AB  - Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As Western Christendom began its remarkable surge forward in the eleventh century, this progress had an impact on the Jewish minority as well. The older Jewries of southern Europe grew and became more productive in every sense. Even more strikingly, a new set of Jewries were created across northern Europe, when this undeveloped area was strengthened demographically, economically, militarily, and culturally. From the smallest and weakest of the world's Jewish centers in the year 1000, the Jewish communities of western Christendom emerged - despite considerable obstacles - as the world's dominant Jewish center by the end of the Middle Ages. This demographic, economic, cultural, and spiritual dominance was maintained down into modernity
SN  - 9781139048880
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-judaism/3407B39B6C4F921F2FA8C265032A415B
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139048880
DO  - 10.1017/9781139048880
LA  - English
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2018)
ID  - 1585600873
ER  -