Modern Myths of Muslim Anti-Semitism

The lecture will be from 4:00-5:30 p.m., with a reception afterwards.
Mark R. Cohen is the author of Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt; Al-mujtama` al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-`usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382); The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah; Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages; Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt; and The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza.

This lecture is sponsored by Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, and the Dean’s Jewish Studies Initiative