Robert Chazan

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 Yechiel Schur, 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

• Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
• 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 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
• Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages (New York: Behrman House, 1980)
• Medieval Jewry in Northern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)

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