Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots, Modern Perspectives

by A. Abulafia (Editor)

Overview

Explorng the history of the conflict between Christians and Jews from medieval to modern times, this wide-ranging volume includes newly uncovered material from the recently opened post-Soviet archives. Anna Sapir Abulafia delineates controversial issues of inter-faith confrontation, and a number of eminent scholars from around the globe discuss openly and objectively the dynamics of Jewish creative response in the face of violence. Through the analysis of the histories of the Christian and Jewish religious traditions, this book provides a valuable understanding of their relationship as a modern day phenomenon.

Author Biography: Anna Sapir Abulafia is a Lecturer in History and Senior Tutor at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349424993
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

GEOFFREY ALDERMAN Professor, Middlesex University
CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Professor, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
DEIRDRE BURKE Doctor, University of Wolverhampton
ROBERT CHAZAN Professor, New York University
JEREMY COHEN Professor, New York University
MARK R. COHEN Professor, Princeton University
GAVIN LANGMUIR Professor, Stanford University
JOHN D. KLIER Professor, University College London
JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH Professor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
ISRAEL JACOB YUVAL Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; A.S.Abulafia Selection of English Translations of Sources and Further Secondary Reading; A.S.Abulafia Christian Violence and the Crusades; J.Riley-Smith The Anti-Jewish Violence of 1096: Perpetrators and Dynamics; R.Chazan Christian Theology and Anti-Jewish Violence in the Middle Ages: Connections and Disjunctions; J.Cohen The Intellectual and Spiritual Quest for Christ and Central Medieval Persecution of Jews; A.P.Abulafia 'They Tell Lies: You Ate the Man': Jewish Reactions to Ritual Murder Accusations; I.J.Yuval Anti-Jewish Violence and the Place of the Jews in Christendom and in Islam: A Paradigm; M.R.Cohen At the Frontiers of Faith; G.I.Langmuir Christians and Jews and the 'Dialogue of Violence' in Late Imperial Russia: Round Table Discussion; J.D.Klier Religious Violence in Past and Future Perspective; C.Andrew Some Thoughts on Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Britain; G.Alderman Religious Violence; J.Riley-Smith Religious Violence: Educational Perspectives; D.Burke Index