Robert Chazan
Robert Chazan | |
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Born | Albany, New York,U.S. | April 25, 1936
Died | February 12, 2024 | (aged 87)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Historian, researcher, author, and rabbi |
Awards | National Jewish Book Award(1988) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Columbia College(BA) Jewish Theological Seminary(Semikhah) Columbia University(MA), (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | New York University |
Robert Leon Chazan(April 25, 1936 – February 12, 2024) was an American historian who was the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies atNew York University.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Robert Leon Chazan was born inAlbany, New Yorkon April 25, 1936.[2][3]
According toAndrew Gowwriting inSpeculum,Chazan is, "a distinguished scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages."[4]
Afestschriftpublished in Chazan's honor and edited byDavid Engel,Lawrence Schiffman,Elliot Wolfson,andYechiel Schur,lists, "the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry," as 4 of the scholarly concerns that have been central to Chazan's work.[5]
Chazan died on February 12, 2024, at the age of 87.[6][3]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240(Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
- Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom.Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. 2006.ISBN0521616646.
- Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
- God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000)
- Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)
- In the Year 1096: The Jews and the First Crusade.Jewish Publication Society of America. 1996.ISBN0827609876.
- Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath.University of California Press. 1992.ISBN0520911326.
- Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
- European Jewry and the First Crusade.University of California Press. 1987.ISBN0520055667.
- Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages.Behrman House. 1980.ISBN0874413028.
- Modern Jewish History.Schocken Books. 1975.ISBN0805235663.
- Medieval Jewry in Northern France(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)
Awards
[edit]1988:National Jewish Book Awardin Jewish History forEuropean Jewry and the First Crusade[7]
References
[edit]- ^"Robert Chazan".New York University.RetrievedMarch 12,2015.
- ^"Robert L Chazan".New York State, Birth Index, 1881–1942.RetrievedFebruary 25,2024.
- ^ab"Robert Leon Chazan".Dignity Memorial.RetrievedFebruary 25,2024.
- ^Gow, Arthur Colin (July 1999). "Reviewed Work: Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. by Robert Chazan".Speculum.74(3): 718–720.doi:10.2307/2886782.JSTOR2886782.
- ^Engel, David (2012).Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History.Brill.ISBN9789004222335.
- ^"Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies".JTA.February 13, 2024.RetrievedFebruary 15,2024.
- ^"Past Winners".Jewish Book Council.RetrievedJanuary 23,2020.