A study on the scientific dimension of Jewish intellectual history in the early modern world

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

Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and

The interplay between knowledge and religion forms a pivotal component of how early modern individuals and societies understood themselves and their surrounding