European Jewry and the First Crusade
by Robert Chazan
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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.Tags
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Robert Chazan is S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Jewish History in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His most recent books are God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives (2000), Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge, 2004), and The Jews of show more Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge, 2006). show less
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- Crusades
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- History, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
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- 943.004924 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Standard subdivisions of Germany Ethnic And National Groups Jews
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- DS135 .G31 .C45 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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