Robert Chazan

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Robert Chazan is the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies at New York University.[1]

According to Andrew Gow writing in Speculum, Chazan is, "a distinguished scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages."[2]

A festschrift published in Chazan's honor and edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffman, Elliot Wolfson, and , lists, "the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry," as 4 of the scholarly concerns that have been central to Chazan's work.[3]

Bibliography[]

  • The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
  • Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
  • Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000)
  • Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)
  • In the Year 1096: The Jews and the First Crusade (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1996)
  • Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)
  • Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
  • European Jewry and the First Crusade. University of California Press. 1987. ISBN 0520055667.
  • Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages (New York: Behrman House, 1980)
  • Modern Jewish History. Schocken Books. 1975. ISBN 0805235663.
  • Medieval Jewry in Northern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)

Awards[]

1988: National Jewish Book Award in Jewish History for European Jewry and the First Crusade[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Robert Chazan". New York University. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  2. ^ Gow, Arthur Colin (July 1999). "Reviewed Work: Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. by Robert Chazan". Speculum. 74 (3): 718–720. doi:10.2307/2886782. JSTOR 2886782.
  3. ^ Engel, David (2012). Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History. Brill. ISBN 9789004222335.
  4. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
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