Sanctifying the Name of God : : Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade /

Sanctifying the Name of God : : Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade / / Jeremy Cohen.

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How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first exte...

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Cohen, Jeremy,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2004
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 8 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations for Primary Sources
  • Introduction: The Persecutions of 1096
  • PART I: Problems and Solutions
  • Chapter 1 To Sanctify the Name of God
  • Chapter 2 The First Crusade and Its Historians
  • Chapter 3 Points of Departure
  • PART II: Martyrs of 1096
  • Chapter 4 Last Supper at Xanten
  • Chapter 5 Master Isaac the Parnas
  • Chapter 6 Mistress Rachel of Mainz
  • Chapter 7 Kalonymos in Limbo
  • Chapter 8 The Rape of Sarit
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Index

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