SD Goitein Sheds light on current Middle East tensions by reexamining the common origins and social, cultural, and legal interrelationships of the two Semitic groups since fifteen hundred BCE January...

Peter Hopkirk Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings...

Sokyo Ono Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. This introduction unveils Shinto's spiritual...

Keith Thomas Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the...

Mark Roseman On January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the "Wannsee Protocol,"...

Kenneth Johnson Until recently, few scholars were even aware that a Slavic Magickal tradition still existed. Kenneth Johnson's book presents his true-life experiences in Russia with the living practitioners of...

Alan Dundes Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history.  According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian...

Michael Stanislawski First published January 1, 1983

Helmut Walser Smith Traces the events surrounding the murder of a German boy in 1900 and the Jewish butcher accused of the crime, piecing together the rumors, accusations, and anti-Semitic...

John G Gager This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity. February 14, 1985 by Oxford University Press

Ivan G Marcus In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He...

Ruth Gay Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York. Nearly three million Jews came to America...