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Much of Jewish culture and history has been informed by the relationship Jews had with members of other religious communities. This series publishes monographs and article collections on all aspects of Jewish culture but most especially encourages contributions which focus on Jewish religious, social, literary, scientific, and artistic relations with non-Jews from late antiquity to the early modern period. The series encompasses not only Western Europe, but also Byzantium, the Caucasus, Russia, the Middle East, and the Persianate world, all regions of Asia, Africa, especially Ethiopia, and the Americas. In addition, the series is open to works which address instances of invented or adopted Jewish identity, or imagined Jews.

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4 results in Jewish Engagements

Judaism in South India, 849-1489
  • Relocating Malabar Jewry
  • Ophira Gamliel
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023
  • Jewish presence in Malabar (also known as Kerala) is attested since the ninth century in various sources and diverse languages. Malabar Jewry emerged out of the medieval Indian Ocean maritime trade networks and in the context of intense inter-cultural contacts between West and South Asia. This book ventures to contextualize Malabar Jewish history in long-distance trade networks and their transition from the medieval Arab maritime trade (900s-1500s).

Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance
  • Edited by Caroline Gruenbaum, Annegret Oehme
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    18 February 2024
    Print publication:
    30 September 2023
  • This study features essays from leading scholars highlighting the important Jewish contributions to the popular medieval genre of romance. Writing against strict notions of genre boundaries and canonization, this volume provides a new understanding of medieval and early modern romance through a working definition consisting of variable elements, including language, literary devices, plot, and characters. The contributions in this volume establish that many texts written in the medieval and early modern Jewish communities across Europe and beyond can be classified as 'romance'. Each of the nine chapters as well as the afterword by Eli Yassif discusses romance as it relates to the medieval and early modern Jewish world, as well as the greater non-Jewish context. This volume places Jewish texts into the scholarly conversation as sources for forming a new understanding of the genre of romance across religious and cultural boundaries.

Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520-1650
  • Erith Jaffe-Berg
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2023
    Print publication:
    31 July 2022
  • This book studies how the Jewish community of Mantua established, normalized, and maintained interrelations with the Christian community for over 130 years, from 1520 to 1650, by means of theatre performance for the Gonzaga Dukes.

Ethiopian Jewish Ascetic Religious Communities
  • Built Environment and Way of Life of the Betä ?sra'el
  • Bar Kribus
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022
  • The Betä Ǝsra'el (Ethiopian Jews) have a unique history and religious tradition, one of the most fascinating aspects of which are the mäloksocc, commonly referred to as monks in scholarly and popular literature. The mäloksocc served as the supreme religious leaders of the Betä Ǝsra'el and were charged with educating and initiating Betä Ǝsra'el priests. They lived in separate compounds and observed severe purity laws prohibiting physical contact with the laity. Thus, they are the only known example in medieval and modern Jewry of ascetic communities withdrawing from the secular world and devoting themselves fully to religious life.

    This book presents the results of the first comprehensive research ever conducted on the way of life and material culture of the ascetic religious communities of the Betä Ǝsra'el. A major part of this research is an archaeological survey, during which these religious centres were located and documented in detail for the first time.