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Century, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
An extensive collection of scholarly essays that deal with a wide range of specific topics.
Nocke, A. (2010) The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity, Leiden: Brill.
An inquiry into a many-faceted Israeli cultural and national conception that locates the State
of Israel in space that is Mediterranean, and correspondingly, not Middle Eastern.
Schwartz, S. (2010) Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient
Judaism, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Argues that while the Torah and Judaism reject Jewish participation in Mediterranean
schemes of reciprocity, Jews in late antiquity entered into complex exchange-based rela-
tionships with non-Jews.
Stroumsa, S. (2009) Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker, Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Described as a cultural biography, this intelligent portrait of the one of the Middle Ages’
leading Jewish thinkers argues that Maimonides’ life and thought were deeply rooted in
the cultures of the Islamic Mediterranean of his day.
Toch, M. (2013) The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages,
Leiden: Brill.
A comprehensive study of Jewish demography and economic activity, mostly in the
Mediterranean, with implications for understanding the relationships of Jews to
landholding, agriculture, commerce, and money.