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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"A significant and innovative study of the events in 1096 and their meaning for Jewish-Christian relations. . . . An outstanding new interpretation, closely attuned to the sources, yet accessible and readable throughout." -- John Van Engen, Religious Studies Review
"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
"Lucid in its style, deliberate and even-handed in its argumentation, this book ably integrates many of the complex dimensions of its subject within a single well-crafted volume." -- Jeremy Cohen, American Historical Review
"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
"Lucid in its style, deliberate and even-handed in its argumentation, this book ably integrates many of the complex dimensions of its subject within a single well-crafted volume." -- Jeremy Cohen, American Historical Review
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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.
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The development of the First Crusade, as well as the state of late eleventh-century northern European Jewry, can be understood only against the background of a broad material and spiritual revival throughout western Christendom during the tenth and eleventh centuries, which had particularly pronounced impact in the heretofore backward areas of northern Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The development of the First Crusade, as well as the state of late eleventh-century northern European Jewry, can be understood only against the background of a broad material and spiritual revival throughout western Christendom during the tenth and eleventh centuries, which had particularly pronounced impact in the heretofore backward areas of northern Europe. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
popular crusading bands, hundred silver zekukim, halachic injunction, saintly ones, baronial armies, trampled corpse, pure awe, idolatrous shrine, saintly wife, pious one, crusade chronicles, saintly women, mystical lore, devastating assaults, crusading movement, whose bounty, cried out loudly, sacred covenant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Crusade, European Jewry, Ashkenazic Jewry, Rhineland Jews, Albert of Aix, Second Crusade, Peter the Hermit, Divine Name, Ashkenazic Jews, European Jewish, Rhineland Jewry, Rabbi Elazar, Duke Godfrey, Hebrew First-Crusade, Philip Augustus, Bishop Rudiger, Cologne Jewry, Count Emicho, Peter the Venerable, Rabbi Ishmael, Emperor Henry, Jews of Mainz, Mainz Jewry, Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn New!
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- A History of the Crusades, Volume IV: The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States (Art & Architecture of the Crusader States) by Kenneth M. Setton on 6 pages
- A History of the Crusades: Volume II The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187 by Steven Runciman on 5 pages
- Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching) by Robert L. Benson on 4 pages
- The Legends of the Jews: From Joshua to Esther (Volume 4) by Louis Ginzberg on 4 pages
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- God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Chronicles by Robert Chazan on 7 pages
- The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials (The Middle Ages Series) by Edward Peters on 6 pages
- Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Jeremy Cohen on 5 pages
- The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, 1000-1500 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Robert Chazan on 5 pages
- Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds by Shmuel Shepkaru on 5 pages
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