The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades ebook

by Shlomo Eidelberg

This book contains the four Hebrew chronicles that have survived from the Crusades - three of them are from the first Crusade and the last is from the second. Each chronicle has an introduction which I found very useful and greatly enjoyed.

This book contains the four Hebrew chronicles that have survived from the Crusades - three of them are from the first Crusade and the last is from the second. Arthur rated it really liked it Feb 17, 2010. A rated it it was amazing Jul 15, 2017. Kurt rated it it was ok Mar 20, 2018. JackHall rated it really liked it Jul 29, 2017. Jennifer Jacobs rated it it was amazing Jan 03, 2015.

But this is the next best thing: medieval writings about those attacks.

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A History of the Crusades: Vol. 4, the Art and Architecture of the Crusader States. The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades.

The history of the Jews and the crusades became a part of the history of antisemitism for the Jews in the Middle Ages. The call for the First Crusade touched off new persecutions of the Jews that would continue on and off for centuries. In the First Crusade, flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were attacked by Crusaders, yet many were spared due to the efforts of the Papacy (see German Crusade, 1096). In the Second Crusade (1147) the Jews in France suffered especially.

17 Simson, Solomon bar, The Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, in Eidelberg, Shlomo, ed. and trans. The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades (Hoboken, NJ: KTAV, 1996), 33. 18 Ibid

17 Simson, Solomon bar, The Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, in Eidelberg, Shlomo, ed. 18 Ibid. 19 Glatstein, Jacob, My Father Isaac, in Curzon, David, e. Modern Poems of the Bible (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994), 143–44.

Another group of Crusaders, led by the notorious Count Emicho, carried out a series of massacres of Jews in various towns in. .Having achieved their goal in an unexpectedly short period of time after the First Crusade, many of the Crusaders departed for home.

Another group of Crusaders, led by the notorious Count Emicho, carried out a series of massacres of Jews in various towns in the Rhineland in 1096, drawing widespread outrage and causing a major crisis in Jewish-Christian relations. When the four main armies of Crusaders arrived in Constantinople, Alexius insisted that their leaders swear an oath of loyalty to him and recognize his authority over any land regained from the Turks, as well as any other territory they might conquer. All but Bohemond resisted taking the oath.

A look at the first Crusader State we will be examining - the Principality of.The best map I found of the Second Crusade appears on page 302 of Christopher Tyerman's book God's War. Unfortunately .

A look at the first Crusader State we will be examining - the Principality of Antioch. Extra reading for the Second Crusade: A History of the Crusades Volume II : The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187 by Steven Runciman. The Second Crusade by Jonathan Phillips. Further information: Crusades.

Crusades to the east, or rather their prologues, were marked by outbreaks of anti-Judaism. Mainz Anonymous, ‘The Narrative of the Old Persecutions’, in The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades, ed. and trans

Crusades to the east, or rather their prologues, were marked by outbreaks of anti-Judaism. Persecution featured in the early stages of the First Crusade: in northern France in the winter of 1095–6 shortly after the council of Clermont; then in the Rhineland, Bohemia and perhaps Bavaria. S. Eidelberg ( Madison, WI, 1977 ) p. 9. oogle Scholar. 4. Ephraim of Bonn, ‘Sefer Zekhirah or The Book of Remembrance’, in The Jews and the Crusaders, ed. Eidelberg, pp. 121–2.

The Jews of Christian Europe were the first victims of the Crusaders' zeal, and the survivors produced accounts of the massacres they had witnessed. The Jews and the Crusaders contains a full English translation of these chronicles, which cover the First and Second crusades - years in which a wave of slaughter and suicide swept the Jews of France and Germany, and demonstrated the Jews' stubborn refusal to abandon their faith. Shlomo Eidelberg has translated four important primary documents from the original Hebrew, providing a perspective on the Crusades that has until now remained relatively obscure to the English-speaking world, thus serving both historians of early Christian Europe and Judaic scholars.The unique emotional power of each chronicle may be felt in the translation. The Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson is a moving narrative concerning the Rhineland massacres. The second chronicle, that of Eliezer bar Nathan, interprets some of the same events in elegiac style and liturgical language while the third chronicle, the Mainz Anonymous though fragmented, is highly analytical in nature. The fourth chronicle, Sefer Zekhirah, is a personal description of the Second Crusade, full of poignant detail. Together, the chronicles present a moving human record of these events, of value not only to professional historians but to all who seek to broaden their understanding of the Jewish experience.These documents will be of further value in that they exemplify eleventh- and twelfth-century literary style, combining factual accounts and descriptions of events with encomia and liturgical elements. In these four chronicles, this genre is enriched with a language and style derived from a mixture of Biblical, Talmudic, and midrashic literature.

Sardleem

Excellent, No Problem,So Satisfied,Good Luck to the seller

Xisyaco

As far as I know, there are no first hand accounts of the Crusaders' attacks upon the Jews. But this is the next best thing: medieval writings about those attacks. All but one of the accounts are of the First and bloodiest Crusade; the Crusaders (or more precisely, rogue bands of Crusaders operating without monarchical or papal approval) massacred Jews in France and Germany and/or forced them to convert. Often, Jews chose to slaughter each other and their children in order to avoid forced conversion- an example of how fanaticism breeds fanaticism.

Kata

Anyone interested in the experience of the Rhineland Jews during the Crusades should head straight to the source material, which this book provides so well.

Yar

A documented, detailed history of the slaughter that the First and Second crusades rained upon innocent Jews that had the misfortune to live in their paths.