Byzantine Jewry from Justinian to the Fourth Crusade (The Littman library of Jewish civilization)

This book describes in detail the vicissitudes of Jewish life in the eastern Mediterranean area, showing how Jews were affected by the political, religious, and economic turmoil of the times. Sharf offers a link between the better-known history of the Jews of the Roman Empire and that of the Greek and Turkish communities of the 15th and 16th centuries.