This chapter examines a unique fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript copied by a woman, Hannah bat Menaḥem Ẓion of Cologne. I claim that the manuscript, and in particular its illustrations, reflect Hannah’s attempt to reclaim her female Jewish identity after a forced conversion.

This paper examines the polemical arguments with Christianity in Yom Tov Lipman Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-Niẓaḥon. Focusing on Lipman’s attack on Christian image worship in his account of a disputation with the convert Peter (Pesaḥ), I argue that Lipman’s anti-Christian rhetoric drew on the vocabulary of contemporary Christian reform preachers in order to reshape Christian perceptions of the Jews while reinforcing his readers’ Jewish identity.

This article presents an edition of a hitherto unidentified set of commented Hebrew excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s Sentencia libri De anima.

The article examines the study of philosophical works, most notably Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed and its commentaries, among the Jews living in Prague at the turn of the fifteenth century.

This paper presents a commented edition and English translation of a begging letter written by Prague scholar Avigdor Kara (d. 1432). I analyze the letter’s context, as well as Kara’s occupation and intellectual profile.

This paper examines the 1389 Easter attack on the Jewish community of Prague and the ways in which it was given meaning in contemporary Christian and Jewish writing.

This article examines Yom Ṭov Lipman Mühlhausen’s treatise Sefer Niẓaḥon and argues that polemic against Christianity constitute only one facet of the book’s broader project, which aimed at popularising a Maimonidean reinterpretation of Jewish religion and redefining the boundaries of the Jewish community along intellectual lines.