Reconstructing Ashkenaz - The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 10001250

Zusatztext "David Malkiel offers 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 revises the view that Ashkenazic Jewry was more pious than its Sephardic counterpart." Informationen zum Autor David Malkiel teaches in the Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, in Israel. Klappentext "Reconstructing Ashkenaz" shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs. Zusammenfassung Reconstructing Ashkenaz shows that, contrary to traditional historical accounts, the Jews of western Europe in the High Middle Ages were not a society of saints and martyrs.

Product details

• Authors: David Malkiel
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2008
• EAN: 9780804759502
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5950-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Series in Jewish Hist; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Series in Jewish Hist
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism