European Jewry and the First Crusade

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1996
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One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.

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One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 380
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 21 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0520205065
ISBN 13: 9780520205062

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Chazan's study is far more than one of a horrendous but marginal episode of the first crusade. He takes us deeply into the thoughts and feelings of Ashkenazic Judaism in its early, formative stages, and into its historical circumstances as an integral and highly significant part of Western Europe in the central Middle Ages. His work is balanced, judicious, and thought-provoking. --H. E. J. Cowdrey, International History Review

Author Bio

Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.