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Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0804759502, 9780804759502
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2605211 bytes)
Pages
376\375
Time added
2021-04-12 02:36:17

Description

Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional accounts, the Jews of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. David Malkiel offers provocative revisions of commonly held interpretations of Jewish martyrdom in the First Crusade massacres, the level of obedience to rabbinic authority, and relations with apostates and with Christians. In the process, he also reexamines and radically revises the view that Ashkenazic Jewry was more pious than its Sephardic counterpart.

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