Sanctifying the Name of God
Subtitle: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812237801
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Jewish studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; First, 1096-1099; Religion; Europe; Jews; Europe - Germany; Judaism - History; 1096-1147; Crusades; Germany; History; Persecutions
First sentence: Unquestionably the most striking aspect of the 1096 persecutions and their Hebrew chronicles is the slaughter of Ashkenazic Jews by their own hands.