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Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe. Robert Chazan

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert ChazanPublish date:2010-09-27Pages:292
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521145435ISBN-10:521145430UPC:9780521145435Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, EuropeBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCZ1DQSYPK
This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr. Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9780521145435ISBN-10:521145430UPC:9780521145435Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, EuropeBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCZ1DQSYPK
Chazan, Robert: - Robert Chazan is S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Jewish History in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His most recent books are God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives (2000), Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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