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

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

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

JudaismGerman History

ISBN10: 0804759502
ISBN13: 9780804759502
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Oct 10 2008
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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