European Jewry and the First Crusade

Author/Contributor(s):	Chazan, Robert
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	02/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.