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Article: Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages.(Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)(Book review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2007
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Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages. By Jonathan Elukin. Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii + 196 pp. $24.95 cloth.
Jonathan Elukin has penned a concise, vigorous polemic designed to challenge what he views as the dominant thesis regarding medieval Jewish-Christian relations during the past sixty years. In his own words, "The historical fulcrum for much of the recent work on the treatment of Jews is the claim that twelfth-century Europe became a 'persecuting society.' The treatment of Jews in the medieval past thus ominously ...