Book Review

Introduction

Under Crescent and Cross is not just another annals of "the Jews in the Middle Ages." Rather, it hunts for to make a issue, namely, that "Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relatives pursued strikingly distinct techniques in the Middle Ages" (p. 195). The scribe, lecturer of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, is not the first individual to approach neither this topic neither the first to suggest such a conclusion. Scholars of the stature of S.D. Goitein or B. Lewis have finished so before. What this publication presents is a close and comprehensive written check of some (though not all) facets of ...