The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.

The Günzburg collection.

Books were burned, but Judaism went unextinguished.

Including a liturgy almost identical to that used today.

Jewishness was the “hand inside the puppet” of Christian Europe.

The book burning in 13th-century Paris.

And perhaps by love, too.

“The man who wrote that book died many years ago.”

Cantor, Kantorowicz, and Frederick II.

A question of influence or of a common culture?

Affirmative-action curation.

Silk Road merchants’ correspondence.

William the Mamzer.

And where did modern Hebrew get its word for one?