By Hannah Confino JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by ...

A highly significant find, this 14th-century synagogue is a rare example of Jewish religious life in medieval Spain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

One of the thorniest problems for the writing of medieval Jewish social history is the paucity of source materials. Yet even where documentary materials such as the Cairo Geniza do remain, scholars ...

Jews rebuilt their community in the decades after a pogrom and before the expulsion of Jews from England in 1290. (JTA) — Earlier this month, the small Jewish community in the British city of York ...

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Humanities Council's Program in Medieval Studies for an E. Franklin Robbins/UJA-Federation Lecture with Ivan G. Marcus on Wednesday, September 25. This event ...

For the first time in 800 years, the British city of York, whose Jewish population was decimated in a medieval pogrom, will be home to a rabbi. Rabbi Elisheva Salamo arrived in York from California ...

BERLINBERLIN — A U.N. committee on Sunday named a group of medieval Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage in Germany has been ...

(JTA) — When Robert Chazan was studying toward his Ph.D. from Columbia University in the mid-1960s, few major American universities were offering positions to Jewish studies scholars. The field was ...

A “Friendsgiving” protest featuring “Gaza’s Spilled Blood” echoed a slander that has sparked violence against Jews for ...

The leaflet details the medieval blood libel of Norwich Jews killing a local boy in the 12th Century.