Author : Robert Chazan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917766
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis European Jewry and the First Crusade by : Robert Chazan
Download or read book European Jewry and the First Crusade written by Robert Chazan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.