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The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500

Robert Chazan (New York University)

In this important synthesis of medieval Jewish history, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience in Europe between AD 1000 and 1500. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry…

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From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism: Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History

Robert Chazan (New York University)

Chazan analyses how during the second half of the Middle Ages, damning imagery of Jews and Judaism proliferated, with a subsequent impact on broader Christian thinking about the trajectory of…

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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

Robert Chazan (New York University)

A study of five twelfth- and thirteenth-century Jewish polemicists from southern France and northern Spain.

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The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500

Robert Chazan (New York University)

In this important synthesis of medieval Jewish history, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience in Europe between AD 1000 and 1500. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry…

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The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom: 1000-1500

Robert Chazan (New York University)

In this important synthesis of medieval Jewish history, Robert Chazan discusses the Jewish experience in Europe between AD 1000 and 1500. As well as being the story of medieval Jewry…

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Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe

Robert Chazan (New York University)

This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jewish life in medieval Christian Europe was characterized by unremitting restriction and suffering. The Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number…

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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

Robert Chazan (New York University)

This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists in order to reassure their Jewish readers of the truth of Judaism and the error of Christianity…

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From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism: Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History

Robert Chazan (New York University)

Chazan analyses how during the second half of the Middle Ages, damning imagery of Jews and Judaism proliferated, with a subsequent impact on broader Christian thinking about the trajectory of…

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