Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines th

David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment h

The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid emb

Jews in the Early Modern World presents a comparative and global history of the Jews for the early modern period, 1400-1700. It traces the remarkable demographi

Groundbreaking essays on Sephardic Jewish families in the Ottoman Empire and Western Sephardic communities