Author

Publication

2000-08-07 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

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Classifications

  • LCCDS135.G31 C53 2000

Description

"Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly suggests. The three surviving Hebrew accounts of the crusaders' devastating assaults on Rhineland Jewish communities during the spring of 1096 have been examined at length, but only now can we appreciate the extent to which they represent their turbulent times."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

In 1892, the Historische Commission fur Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, committed inter alia to providing documentation illuminating Jewish life in Germany, published its second volume of medieval Hebrew sources, consisting of five narratives describing the fate of German Jewry during the great crusades of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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