Robert Chazan is the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies at
New York University
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According to Andrew Gow writing in Speculum, Chazan is, "a distinguished scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages."
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festschrift
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published in Chazan's honor and edited by David Engel,
Lawrence Schiffman
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Elliot Wolfson
Elliot R. Wolfson (born November 23, 1956) is a scholar of Jewish studies.
Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies ...
, and Yechiel 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.
Bibliography
*''The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240'' (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
*''Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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*''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)
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*''Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response'' (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
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*''Medieval Jewry in Northern France'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)