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Jews in the Middle Ages: Intellectual Life, Religion, and Persecution

The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind

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Attacks on Scholarship: Disputation and Talmud Burnings

Mitchell Rocklin recounts the 1242 Disputation of Paris and the catastrophic burning of Talmuds that crippled French scholarship.

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