Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE) Special Series: Jewish Life in the Middle Ages

Curated by Elisheva Baumgarten, Maya Soifer Irish, Marcia Kupfer, and Asa Mittman, this project aims to create a series of enriching, open-access resources (OARs) on medieval Jewish life for students, instructors, and the general public.

A new video by Diane Wolfthal (Rice University) explores illustrated Yiddish manuscripts from the 15-16th centuries.


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Maya Soifer Irish (November 17, 2024). Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE) Special Series: Jewish Life in the Middle Ages. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved February 14, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12p4s


About Maya Soifer Irish

Dr. Maya Soifer Irish an Associate Professor of History at Rice University, whose research focuses on religious violence and toleration, and explores the legal, social, and economic situation of religious minorities in Iberian Christian societies. She is the author of many articles, including “Beyond convivencia: Critical Reflections on the Historiography of Interfaith Relations in Christian Spain.” Her first book, Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change, explores the changes in Jewish-Christian relations in the kingdom of Castile between the 11th and 14th centuries. She is currently working on a new book, The Politics of Persecution in Medieval Spain: Toward the Anti-Jewish Riots of 1391. Between 2018 and 2021 she served as President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS).