Robert Chazan

Robert Chazan (born April 25, 1936 in Albany ) is an American medieval historian.

Life

Chazan studied history at Columbia University (MA, 1963) and received his PhD in 1967. He also trained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1962 .

Chazan taught history at Ohio State University in Columbus from 1967 to 1980 . From 1981 to 1987 he was Professor of History at Queens College , New York. Since 1987 he has been Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at New York University .

Chazan publishes on Jewish history in the Middle Ages, the relationship of the Christian religion to Judaism and the history of the exegesis of Jewish religious writings and researches the development of historiography in the Middle Ages. He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a member of the American Academy of Jewish Research, of which he was Chairman from 1995 to 2000.

Fonts (selection)

• 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
• Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000
• Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism . Berkeley: 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: University of California Press, 1992
• Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989
• European Jewry and the First Crusade . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987
• Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages . New York: Behrman House, 1980
• Medieval Jewry in Northern France: A political and social history . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973

literature

• David Engel , Lawrence Schiffman , Elliot Wolfson , Yechiel Schur (Eds.): Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History: Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan . Brill, 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Chazan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Robert Chazan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Robert Chazan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Robert Chazan , at NYU
• Robert Chazan , at Prabook