Mainz Anonymous

The Mainz Anonymous is an account of the First Crusade of 1096 written soon thereafter by an anonymous Jewish author
==Composition==
The work is written in Hebrew. Its author is unknown, and it deals primarily with the Crusaders' actions in Mainz: hence its name. However, it also deals with other cities in the Rhineland, specifically Speyer and Worms. It is not entirely accurate: it has a definitive Jewish point of view and fictionalizes anecdotes occasionally to make a point. It also includes occasional anguished supplications to God.
==References and further reading==
*Robert Chazan, European Jewry and the First Crusade (California, 1987).
*Robert Chazan, In the Year 1096: The First Crusade and the Jews (JPS, 1996).
*A. M. Habermann, גזרות אשכנז וצרפת [Massacres of France and Germany, Hebrew] (c. 1945).
==External links==
*An English translation of the Mainz Anonymous
Category:Jewish literature
Category:Hebrew manuscripts
Category:Jewish history
Category:Crusades
Category:Germany