1. Preface

   • Jay Berkovitz
   • Francesca Trivellato

   EditorialNotes 05 June 2012 Pages: 1 - 3

2. Salome in the Middle Ages

   • William Chester Jordan

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 5 - 15

3. The reckonings of Nahmanides and Arnold of Villanova: on the early contacts between Christian millenarianism and Jewish messianism

   • Maurice Kriegel

   OriginalPaper 08 June 2012 Pages: 17 - 40

4. The myth of the Jewish origins of philosophy in the Renaissance: from Aristotle to Plato

   • Abraham Melamed

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 41 - 59

5. “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau”: Isaac Abravanel between Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides

   • Liron Hoch
   • Menachem Kellner

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 61 - 83

6. Cum Nimis Absurdum and the Ancona Auto-da-Fé revisited: their impact on Venice and some wider reflections

   • Benjamin Ravid

   OriginalPaper 08 June 2012 Pages: 85 - 100

7. Jews, Christians, and sex in Renaissance Italy: a historiographical problem

   • Robert Bonfil

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 101 - 111

8. The burdens of maternity: devising a demographic policy for late-renaissance Bologna

   • Nicholas Terpstra

   OriginalPaper 05 June 2012 Pages: 113 - 124

9. A Rabbi reads the Qur’an in the Venetian ghetto

   • Howard Tzvi Adelman

   OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 125 - 137

10. “This passage can also be read differently … :” How Jews and Christians censored Hebrew texts in early modern Modena

    • Federica Francesconi

    OriginalPaper 12 June 2012 Pages: 139 - 160

11. Buon Purim: proselytizing, professing Jews and the Papal Inquisition in Modena

    • Katherine Aron-Beller

    OriginalPaper 05 June 2012 Pages: 161 - 177

12. Crisis and authority in early modern Ashkenaz

    • Jay R. Berkovitz

    OriginalPaper 09 June 2012 Pages: 179 - 199

13. Medicine as Enlightenment cure: Benedetto Frizzi, physician to eighteenth-century Italian Jewish society

    • Lois C. Dubin

    OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 201 - 221

14. The rescue of Jewish girls and teenage women to England and the USA during the Holocaust: a gendered perspective

    • Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

    OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 223 - 245

15. ‘Too holy to print’: taboo anxiety and the publishing of practical Hebrew esoterica

    • J. H. Chajes

    OriginalPaper 06 June 2012 Pages: 247 - 262

16. Kenneth Stow List of publications

    • Kenneth Stow

    Announcement 06 June 2012 Pages: 263 - 274