TY  - JOUR
AB  - Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn, the author of our only extant Hebrew account of the fate of Jews during the Second Crusade, has left us a related text--a collection of reports on a series of anti-Jewish actions that stretched in time from 1171 to 1196. Since narrative accounts of events penned by Jewish contemporaries and near contemporaries are both extremely valuable and relatively rare for the Middle Ages, close scrutiny of Ephraim's compilation is rewarding. Issues addressed in this study include: the curious organizational pattern of the compilation; the sources available to Ephraim and his stance toward these materials; and patterns of late twelfth-century Jewish life reflected in these narratives. At the close of the paper, the innovative nature of a compilation organized around the theme of anti-Jewish violence is noted, raising the question whether Ephraim's collection is, in and of itself, useful testimony to declining Jewish circumstances in late twelfth-century Ashkenazic Jewry.
AU  - Chazan, Robert
DA  - 19940401
DO  - 10.2307/1455083
EP  - 416
KW  - Behavioral sciences -- Anthropology -- Ethnology ; Religion -- Spiritual belief systems -- Christianity ; History -- Historical methodology -- Historiography ; History -- Historical methodology -- Historiography ; Political science -- Government -- Government officials ; Biological sciences -- Biology -- Developmental biology ; Behavioral sciences -- Anthropology -- Ethnology ; History -- Historical methodology -- Historiography ; Behavioral sciences -- Human behavior -- Violence ; Social sciences -- Communications -- Narratives
LA  - eng
PB  - Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
PY  - 19940401
SN  - 15530604
SN  - 00216682
SP  - 397
T2  - The Jewish Quarterly Review
TI  - Ephraim ben Jacob's Compilation of Twelfth-Century Persecutions
Y2  - 2021-02-26T08:48:44+01:00
ER  -