Explore the intimate lives of ordinary and extraordinary Jews living in the Christian and the Islamic world from medieval times through the early 20^th century. This course offers students insight not only into how Jews were embedded in the larger non-Jewish world, but also how the internal life of the Jewish community was conducted. Discussion topics include family life and the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, and the extended family; childhood and education; the separate gendered spheres in which women and men labored and socialized; the experiences of marginalized people include those experiencing disabilities, enslavement, and poverty; attitudes towards medicine, magic, and death; and relationships between members of different Jewish sects and denominations. We also discuss attitudes towards the religious other, including the experiences of those converting to Judaism and away from Judaism, the theory and practice of religious persecution, and varieties of interfaith interactions between members of the majority and the religious minority.