Reconstructing Ashkenaz
Subtitle: the human face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250
By: David Malkiel.
Series: Stanford series in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780804759502
Subjects: Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism; Crusades; Ashkenazim -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500; Sephardim -- History
Description: "Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rabbinic authority, and relations with apostates and with Christians. In the process, he also reexamines and radically revises the view that Ashkenazic Jewry was more pious than its Sephardic counterpart."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Image; title: Adumbrations; title: Martyrdom; title: Survival; title: Apostates; title: Deviance; title: Christians; title: Sepharad.