God, Humanity, and History
Subtitle: The Hebrew First Crusade Chronicles
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780520221277
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Jewish studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; Germany - History; History Of Jews; Sources; Hebrew; Religion; Europe; Europe - Germany; Jewish - General; Social Science / Jewish Studies; 1096-1147; Biography; Germany; History; Jewish martyrs; Jews; Persecutions
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.
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.