Robert Chazan Explained

Robert Chazan
Birth Date:	25 April 1936
Birth Place:	Albany, New York, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Historian, researcher, author, and rabbi
Alma Mater:	Columbia College (BA) Jewish Theological Seminary (Semikhah) Columbia University (MA), (PhD)
Workplaces:	New York University
Awards:	National Jewish Book Award (1988)

Robert Leon Chazan (April 25, 1936 – February 12, 2024) was an American historian who was the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.^[1]

Life and career

Robert Leon Chazan was born in Albany, New York on April 25, 1936.^{[2] [3]}

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."^[4]

A festschrift published in Chazan's honor and edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffman, Elliot Wolfson, 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.^[5]

Chazan died on February 12, 2024, at the age of 87.^{[6] [3]}

Bibliography

• The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
• Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Book: The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. 2006. 0521616646. registration.
• 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)
• Book: In the Year 1096: The Jews and the First Crusade. Jewish Publication Society of America. 1996. 0827609876. registration.
• Book: Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath. University of California Press. 1992. 0520911326. registration.
• Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
• Book: European Jewry and the First Crusade. University of California Press. 1987. 0520055667. registration.
• Book: Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages. Behrman House. 1980. 0874413028. registration.
• Book: Modern Jewish History. Schocken Books. 1975. 0805235663. registration.
• Medieval Jewry in Northern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)

Awards

1988: National Jewish Book Award in Jewish History for European Jewry and the First Crusade^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Robert Chazan. New York University. 12 March 2015.
2. Web site: Robert L Chazan . New York State, Birth Index, 1881–1942 . 25 February 2024.
3. Web site: Robert Leon Chazan . Dignity Memorial . 25 February 2024.
4. Gow. Arthur Colin. Reviewed Work: Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism. by Robert Chazan. Speculum. July 1999. 74. 3. 718–720. 2886782. 10.2307/2886782.
5. Book: Engel. David. Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History. 2012. Brill. 9789004222335.
6. Web site: Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies . JTA . 15 February 2024 . 13 February 2024.
7. Web site: Past Winners. Jewish Book Council. en. 2020-01-23.