Section I. External relations
Christian leaders object to the sabbath and to the Jewish dating of Easter
Jews and the later Roman law
Pope Gregory the Great and the Jews
The Jews of Spain : church councils and the visigothic code
The accusation of the ritual murder of St. William of Norwich
The ritual murder accusations at Blois
The expulsion of the Jews from France
Innocent III and the Jews
A Jewish woman impregnated by a cleric; a Jewish woman who became a Catholic
The burning of the Talmud
Medieval Spanish law and the Jews
The black death and the Jews
Anti-Jewish riots in the Iberian peninsula
The Passau host desecration
The Spanish inquisition begins operations
The massacre of the new Christians of Lisbon
The Spanish Inquisition at work
Reuchlin's appeal to Bonetto de Lattes
Martin Luther and the Jews
The burning of the Talmud in Italy
Pope Paul IV cum nimis absurdum
A new Jewish community in the Netherlands
A petition for the readmission of the Jews to England
The readmission of the Jews into Brandenburg
The martyrdom of the Reizes brothers
The charter decreed by Frederick II for the Jews of Prussia
The punishment for sacrilege
Ezekiel Landau's eulogy for the Empress Maria Theresa
Section II. Internal dynamics A. Jewish self-government
Legal questions regarding communal authority
Ordinances (Takkanot) of Rabbenu Gershom
Judah ben Asher : homicide and criminal penalties
Valladolid synod of Castilian Jews
Sumptuary and other police laws
Joseph Colon's responsa on community ordinances and rabbinic synods
The Shulḥan Arukh and its Mappah
The council of four lands and the Lithuanian council
The ransom of captives : eastern and southern Europe
The Barbers' guild at Cracow, Poland
The constitution of the Jewish community of Sugenheim town
Shephatiah and Basil I in Constantinople
Solomon bar Isaac (Rashi)
Rabbenu Jacob ben Meir and the crusaders
Moses ben Naḥman (Ramban)
Joseph ibn Shem Tov : a sermon on Jewish suffering
Don Isaac Abravanel on monarchy and republics
The oath of Amatus Lusitanus
Mordecai Meisel, financier, and philanthropist
Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
The memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
Joseph Süß Oppenheimer ("Jud Süß")
Israel ben Eliezer Ba'al Shem Tov (Besht)
Jacob Frank and the Frankists
Solomon Maimon in Poland and Berlin
Responses to the philosophical work of Maimonides
A moralist's rebuke of Spanish Jewish society
A proposed Jewish college
The woman who refused to remain the wife of an innkeeper
The Jewish community of Palermo
Jewish books and their printers
Leon Modena on gambling, money-lending, and Jewish languages
Unusual experiences from the responsa literature
Letters from ordinary Jews of Prague
Seventeenth-century memoirs
Saul Levi Morteira, "the people's envy"
A preacher's rebuke of Polish Jewish society : Berekhiah Berakh
Messianic excitement in Hamburg and Livorno
Ber of Bolechów and his times.
