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Professor Alfred Haverkamp, founder of the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Trier University, has been a leading scholar and successful mentor for medieval historical research on Jews and Judaism in Central Europe (Ashkenaz) since the 1970s. This Festschrift joins together current multi-disciplinary perspectives on medieval Jewish life and Jewish-Christian relations, in studies based on archival and manuscript sources as well as medieval sculpture and artefacts. With contributions by Elisheva Baumgarten, Thilo Becker, Eveline Brugger, Nicolo Bucaria, Jorn R. Christophersen, Christoph Cluse and Carsten Ginsheimer, Johannes Deissler, Simcha Emanuel, Rachel Furst and Sophia Schmitt, Johannes Heil, Elisabeth Hollender, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Andreas Lehnertz, Ivan G. Marcus, Gerd Mentgen, Rachel Zohn Mincer, Jorg R. Muller, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Lucia Raspe, Rene Richtscheid, Michael Schlachter, Merav Schnitzer Maimon, Christian Scholl, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Alessandra Veronese, Markus J. Wenninger, and Birgit Wiedl. Foreword by Israel J. Yuval.