European Jewry and the First Crusade

by Robert Chazan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205065
• ISBN13: 9780520205062
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"