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Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New)
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This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval
Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical
limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and
unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that, while Jewish
life in medieval Western Christendom was indeed beset with grave
difficulties, it was nevertheless an environment rich in
opportunities; the Jews of medieval Europe overcame obstacles, grew
in number, explored innovative economic options, and fashioned
enduring new forms of Jewish living. His research also provides a
reconsideration of the legacy of medieval Jewish life, which is
often depicted as equally destructive and projected as the
underpinning of the twentieth-century catastrophes of antisemitism
and the Holocaust. Dr Chazan's research proves that, although
Jewish life in the medieval West laid the foundation for much
Jewish suffering in the post-medieval world, it also stimulated
considerable Jewish ingenuity, which lies at the root of impressive
Jewish successes in the modern West.
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