Abstract
JEWS HAVE LIVED in Europe for millennia, with evidence of Jewish communities in southern Europe dating to as early as the end of the Second Temple period (1 CE). In the centuries that followed, particularly after 800 CE, Jews moved northward, westward, and eastward, becoming a constant presence across the continent throughout the medieval period. Jewish communities were founded and expanded and then, in many places, expelled or annihilated during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the end of the medieval period. These medieval Jews are best known for the significant centers of Jewish life and learning they established, their writings
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | The Princeton Companion to Jewish Studies |
| Editors | Leora Batnitzky , Eve Krakowski, Steven Weitzman |
| Place of Publication | Princeton |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Chapter | 5 |
| Pages | 119-138 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780691220826 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780691215181 |
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| State | Published - 2025 |