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

by A. Abulafia (Editor)

Overview

Exploring deep into the history of the conflict between Christians and Jews from medieval to modern times, this wide-ranging volume - which includes newly uncovered material from the recently opened post-Soviet archives - seeks to bring positive understanding to controversial issues of inter-faith confrontation. Here, a number of eminent scholars from around the globe, come together to discuss openly and objectively the dynamics of Jewish creative response in the face of violence. Through the analysis of the histories of both the Christian and Jewish religious traditions, we are brought to an understanding of their relationship as a modern day phenomenon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349424993
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/03/2001
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