European Jewry and the First Crusade

by Robert Chazan

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One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the first detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.
  • ISBN10 0520205065
  • ISBN13 9780520205062
  • Publish Date 1 February 1996 (first published 16 March 1987)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 380
  • Language English