Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
The Solomon Goldman Lectures
Angaben zur Quelle:
IV (1985) 135-148
Keywords:
Crusades
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Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
Argues that the Crusades do not represent a watershed in medieval Jewish history or thought. The attacks, although violent, were limited geographically (mainly in the Rhineland) and were perpetrated by marauding mobs and not by the armies. Civil and Church authorities tried to protect "their" Jews. Demographically and economically, Jewish life continued to expand during the period of the Crusades, a period of intensification of pre-existent tendencies in European civilization rather than a dramatic dividing line. For the Jews, the main negative impact was the marked increase in popular anti-Jewish imagery, and later "when an increasingly mature and homogeneous European civilization had both the inclination and the resources to do without its Jews."
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