Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Age of Expulsions and Massacres: Medieval England and France
Summary
In the 13th century England began expelling its Jews and France soon followed. Paris became the site of organized burnings of the Talmud—a trend that would peak in the 16th century. This lecture examines the idea of expulsion. In what ways it is similar to the ancient deportations and in what ways is it different.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).