Readings in Jewish Historical Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Modern Period

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A study of Jewish historical writing from the works of sixteenth century authors including Solomon ibn Verga, Joseph ha-Kohen, Samuel Usque and Azariah de Rossi, to the diary of Gluckel of Hameln and Nathan Hannover’s Yeven Metzulah, to the writings of the Wissenschaft des Judenthum in the nineteenth century.