Review of Ross Shepard Kraemer: The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity what Christianity cost the Jews

Abstract

Ross Shepard Kraemer’s important volume, The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, opens with a reflection on our own time. She writes with passion of her experience of writing this volume while thinking about medieval anti-Semitism, Nazism, Islamic fundamentalism, and the most recent Jewish experience in America and elsewhere.