A Historian in Exile: Solomon Ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter

In this excellent book, Cohen introduces people like me, non-Jews who do not read Hebrew, into "the burst of Jewish historiographical productivity in the sixteenth century." Solomon Ibn Verga uses history "to advance a new vision of European society and government" by asking the historical question: "how and why the Jews have arrived at their present state in Western Christendom"-- [exiled from Iberian Peninsula]. This is the history of history at its best.