Casaubon, A Love Story: Why Christians Loved Hebrew During the Renaissance
George Eliot and Umberto Eco were smitten with Isaac Casaubon, perhaps Renaissance Europe's leading man of letters, both writing novels inspired by him. It's obvious why: he was a bibliophile whose...
View ArticleWas Vatican II All That Good For The Jews? A Berkeley Historian Takes Up the...
Vatican II—the Catholic Church’s commission that liberalized many Catholic practices—was a watershed for Jews, too. The most famous Jewish-related doctrine to come out of it, “Nostra Aetate,” bluntly...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....