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Jeremy Cohen Sanctifying the Name of God (Paperback) Jewish Culture and Contexts

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Sanctifying the Name of GodCondition: NewSubtitle: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First CrusadeISBN-10: 0812219562EAN: 9780812219562ISBN: 9780812219562Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/13/2006Description: 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 extensive wave of anti-Jewish violence in medieval Christian Europe, these "Persecutions of 1096" exerted a profound influence on the course of European Jewish history. When the crusaders demanded that Jews choose between Christianity and death, many opted for baptism. Many others, however, chose to die as Jews rather than to live as Christians, and of these, many actually inflicted death upon themselves and their loved ones. Stories of their self-sacrifice ushered the Jewish ideal of martyrdom—kiddush ha-Shem, the sanctification of God's holy name—into a new phase, conditioning the collective memory and mindset of Ashkenazic Jewry for centuries to come, during the Holocaust, and even today. The Jewish survivors of 1096 memorialized the victims as martyrs as they rebuilt their communities during the decades following the Crusade. Three twelfth-century Hebrew chronicles of the persecutions preserve their memories of martyrdom and self-sacrifice, tales fraught with symbolic meaning that constitute one of the earliest Jewish attempts at local, contemporary historiography. Reading and analyzing these stories through the prism of Jewish and Christian religious and literary traditions, Jeremy Cohen shows how these persecution chronicles reveal much more about the storytellers, the martyrologists, than about the martyrs themselves. While they extol the glorious heroism of the martyrs, they also air the doubts, guilt, and conflicts of those who, by submitting temporarily to the Christian crusaders, survived.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Jeremy CohenGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Jewish Culture and ContextsTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Sanctifying the Name of God

Title: Sanctifying the Name of God

Subtitle: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade

ISBN-10: 0812219562

EAN: 9780812219562

ISBN: 9780812219562

Release Date: 02/13/2006

Release Year: 2006

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality

Topic: History

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

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

Language: English

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2006

Subject: Judaism / History, Europe / Medieval, Jewish

Item Weight: 13.2 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Religion, History

Author: Jeremy Cohen

Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.

Item Width: 5.9 in

Format: Perfect

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