Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

by Robert Chazan

Book Overview

Five twelfth- and thirteenth-century polemicists from southern France and northern Spain are the first known Jewish polemicists from western Christendom, who identified major Christian challenges, as well as appropriate responses for fellow Jews under ever-increasing religious pressure. This analysis suggests that the Jewish polemicists ultimately attempted to offer their followers a significantly contrasting portrait of Christian and Jewish society:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521100569
• ISBN13: 9780521100564
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"