pt. 1. On studying Jewish history
The rabbinic legacy prior to Islam
The beginnings of Jewish life under Islam
Baghdad and the Gaonic age
Saadia Gaon and his world
The philosophy of Saadia Gaon
The rise of the Spanish Jewish community
Judah ha-Levi's cultural critique
Moses Maimonides's philosophy of Judaism
Jewish beginnings in Christian Europe
The church and the Jews prior to 1096
The crusades and the Jews.
pt. 2. Patterns of Jewish culture : rabbinic learning
Patterns of Jewish culture : Kabbalah
Patterns of Jewish culture : German pietism
The medieval Jewish-Christian debate
Understanding medieval anti-Semitism
Notes on the medieval Jewish family
The decline and expulsion of Spanish Jewry
Italian Jewry in the early modern period
Kabbalah and society in 16th century Safed
Shabbetai Zevi : the mystical messiah
The rise of Eastern European Jewry
The Sephardim of Amsterdam.
