CONTENTS

Introduction to the 2008 Edition  ix

Preface and Acknowledgments  xiii

Note on Transliteration  xvii

Introduction  xix

PART ONE: Myth and Countermyth

CHAPTER ONE

Myth and Countermyth  3

PART TWO: In Religion and Law

CHAPTER TWO

Religions in Conflict  17

CHAPTER THREE

The Legal Position of Jews in Christendom  30

CHAPTER FOUR

The Legal Position of Jews in Islam  52

PART THREE: In the Economy

CHAPTER FIVE

The Economic Factor  77

PART FOUR: In the Social Order

CHAPTER SIX

Hierarchy, Marginality, and Ethnicity  107

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Jew as Townsman  121

CHAPTER EIGHT

Sociability  129

PART FIVE: Polemics and Persecution

CHAPTER NINE

Interreligious Polemics  139

CHAPTER TEN

Persecution, Response, and Collective Memory  162

Conclusion  195

Notes  201

Afterword: A Paradigm  271

Index  287