I'm not gonna read this yet, but I will tell you a story about this time period Once upon a time, the Jews that inhabited the Middle-Eastern region were conquered by the great Islamic Empires. Many Jews would flee, and they would seek refugee in Western Europe. What the Catholic Christians of Europe did was push them out just as the Muslims had, and the fleeing Jews were forced settle themselves in the Slavic lands controlled by the Byzantine Empire. How tolerant.