Rethinking European Jewish history / edited by Jeremy Cohen and Moshe Rosman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish history across borders / Moshe Rosman -- Away from a definition of antisemitism : an essay in the semantics of historical description / David Engel -- Does gender matter? : locating women in European Jewish history / Paula E. Hyman -- Assimilation and cultural exchange in modern Jewish history / Maud Mandel -- Jewish cultural history in early modern Europe : an agenda for future study / David B. Ruderman -- The Reformation and the Jews / Miriam Bodian -- Re(de)fining modernity in Jewish history / Gershon David Hundert -- Spanish 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' in an age of mass conversion / David Nirenberg -- The social context of apostasy among fifteenth-century Spanish Jewry : dynamics of a new religious borderland / Ram Ben-Shalom -- Transnationalism and mutual influence : American and East European Jewries in the 1920s and 1930s / Daniel Soyer -- Transplanting the heart back East : returning Jewish musical culture from the United States to Europe / Judah M. Cohen.