This fascinating history by an eminent scholar explores the relations between Jews and Arabs, all the way from their beginnings 3,000 years ago into the 1970s. Although written in 1954, this book remains relevant because of its focus on social and cultural relationships as opposed to political and m[...]

This six-volume 'portrait of a Mediterranean personality' is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings tha[...]