 | Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096–1147; Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany; Crusades -- First 1096–1099; Germany -- Ethnic relations; "The slaughter of the Jews in the Rhineland in 1096 is one of the better-known events of the First Crusade. Cohen analyzes the texts of the Jewish accounts of these massacres in light of the martyrdom tradition of Masada, well-known at that time, and the contemporary Christian cult of self-sacrifice. . . . Recommended."-- Choice Jeremy Cohen is Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. Among his books are The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism and Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity. |
