The Jew in the Medieval World (A Source Book: 315-1791)

Includes "documents from the medieval literature which illuminate the Jewish community in both aspects: as self-contained society (the documents relating to Jewish self-government; Jewish sectarianism, mysticism, messianism; the inner life of the Jew; the lives and works of Jewish notables - Rashi, Maimonides, Glückel of Hameln, Solomon Maimon, among others) and as society-on-sufferance in an alien world (the Jewish situation under Roman law, under Islam, under the Visigoths; treatment at the hands of the feudal and monarchical societies, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Reformers)."