Robert Chazan
Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies; Director, Wagner-Skirball Dual Degree Program; Co-Director, Doctoral Program in Education and Jewish Studies
Jewish Theological Seminary, MHL 1962; Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi 1962; Columbia University, MA 1963; Columbia University, PhD 1967
Office: 53 Washington Square South, Room 204
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Phone: (212)998-8976
Research Interests
Medieval Jewish History; the Church and the Jews
External Affiliations
Wexner Foundation
Select Publications
Books:
Reassessing Jewish Life
in Medieval Europe (Cambridge
University Press, 2010)
The Trial of the Talmud:
Paris, 1240 (Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)
The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006; Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
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)
In the Year 1096: The Jews and the First Crusade (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1996)
Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992)
Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989)
European Jewry and the First Crusade (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages (New York: Behrman House, 1980)
Medieval Jewry in Northern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974)
Fellowships/Honors
American Academy for Jewish Research Fellow; Medieval Academy of America Fellow