Books by Robert Chazan

This story is significant for all who are fascinated by the capacity of human groups to respond and adapt creatively to a hostile and limiting environment.

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present.

One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. The author offers a detailed analysis of these events, illuminating the attitudes that triggered the assaults as well as the beliefs that informed Jewish reactions to them.

This work shows how damaging 12th-century stereotypes developed and goes on to chart the powerful, lasting role of the new anti-Jewish imagery in the historical development of antisemitism.

Reconstructs the Barcelona disputation from the Christian and Jewish sources and sets it in its historical context, emphasizing post-disputation manoeuvres on both sides. This title focuses on Rabbi ben Nahman's efforts to reassure his fellow Jews in the face of new missionizing pressures.