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- Introduction
- Introduction- Creating a Physical Setting
- Images
- Speyer medieval synagogue- view from the northwest, view from the northeast, sandstone tile floor
- Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca, Toledo, 13 th century
- Córdoba Synagogue, south and north walls, 1314-15
- Detail of the Dedicatory Inscription of the Synagogue of El Tránsito, Toledo, 1357
- Illuminating the Synagogue, Sister Haggadah, ca. 1350
- Model of the Speyer ritual bath
- Women ritually cleaning dishes in the mikvah, Moorish Haggadah, ca. 1300, Castile
- Primary Texts
- Dedication of a New Speyer Synagogue, 1104, Anonymous Twelfth-Century Hebrew Narrative
- Royal Grant of Cemetery Rights to the Jews of England, 1177, Roger of Howden’s Thirteenth-Century Latin Narrative
- Royal Arrangements for Jewish Communal Property, 1315 Royal Edict
- Secondary Literature
- Y. Assis, The Golden Age of Aragonese Jewry- Community and Society in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327 (London- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1997), 199-234.
- S. Codreanu-Windauer, “Regensburg- The Archeology of the Medieval Jewish Quarter,” in The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries), 391-404.
- P. Manix, “Oxford- Mapping the Medieval Jewry,” in The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries), 405-420.
- M. Porsche, “Speyer- The Medieval Synagogue,” in The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries), 435-448.
- K. Muller, “Wurzburg- The World’s Largest find from a Medieval Jewish Synagogue,” The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth through Fifteenth Centuries), 379-390.
- Videos
- Who were the leaders of European Jewry? Prof. Robert Chazan.
- Images in the Medieval Haggadah
- Medieval Spanish Haggadah
- Jews in Medieval Spain – Overview