Jews in Byzantium : dialectics of minority and majority cultures / / edited by Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam.

• Superior document: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, v. 14
• Author: Scholion--Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Bonfil, Robert; Irshai, Oded; Stroumsa, Guy G.; Talgam, Rina; Scholion--Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies; Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1058 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1283310783; 9786613310781; 9004216448
• ISSN: 1570-078X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam.

In the ever increasing volume of Byzantine Studies in recent years there seems to be one very apparent void, namely, the history and culture of the Byzantine Jewry, its presence and impact on the surrounding convoluted Byzantine world between Late Antiquity until the conquest of Byzantium (1453). With the now classic but dated studies by Joshua Starr and Andrew Sharf, the collective volume at hand is an attempt to somewhat fill in this void. The articles assembled in this volume are penned by leading scholars in the field. They present bird's eye views of the cultural history of the Jewish Byzantine minority, alongside a wide array of surveys and in-depth studies of various topics. These topics pertain to the dialectics of the religious, literary, economic and visual representation world of this alien minority within its surrounding Byzantine hegemonic world.