Charlemagne and the Jewish Communities of the Latin West

In this episode, Loraine Enlow chats with Pilar Rivett about Rivett’s research on ninth-century baptismal and exorcistic rites and Jewish–Christian relations under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.

Their conversation challenges scholarly assumptions about a decline in the culture of diasporic Judaism in the Latin West in pre-Rabbinic times (4th–9th centuries). Instead, they argue in favor of a Latin Jewish textual tradition.

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