More Than Scholars and Victims: The Forgotten Lives of Medieval Jews by Cait Stevenson at Medievalists.net

Jews have come to play an oddly sober role in the standard story of the Middle Ages. Jewish men are intellectuals, philosophers, physicians—and the self-erasing middlemen between Muslim and Christian culture, never mind acknowledging their own.


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.