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Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

This course presents an overview of Jewish culture and society, from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity up to the dawn of modernity in the 17th century.

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