Reassessing Jewish life in Medieval Europe [electronic resource] / Robert Chazan.
2010
DS135.E81 C54 2010eb
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Title
Reassessing Jewish life in Medieval Europe [electronic resource] / Robert Chazan.
Author
Chazan, Robert.
ISBN
9780511858093 (electronic bk.)
9780521763042
0521763045
9780521145435 (pbk.)
0521145430 (pbk.)
9780521763042
0521763045
9780521145435 (pbk.)
0521145430 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 270 p.)
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DS135.E81 C54 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/4040902
Summary
"This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive Jewish successes in the modern West"-- Provided by publisher
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Table of Contents
Prologue: group narratives: their tenacity and their accuracy
Introduction: the emergence of medieval European Jewry
The Jewish middle age: the Jewish view
The Jewish middle age: the Christian view
The European middle ages
The European Jewish middle ages
Demographic movement and change
Economic activity
Status
Relocations within the Christian populace
Identity
Epilogue: the medieval roots of modern Jewish life: destructive aftermath and constructive legacies.
Introduction: the emergence of medieval European Jewry
The Jewish middle age: the Jewish view
The Jewish middle age: the Christian view
The European middle ages
The European Jewish middle ages
Demographic movement and change
Economic activity
Status
Relocations within the Christian populace
Identity
Epilogue: the medieval roots of modern Jewish life: destructive aftermath and constructive legacies.