TY - JOUR
T1 - God, Humanity, and History
T2 - The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives
AU - Malkiel, David
PY - 2003/4
Y1 - 2003/4
N2 - As crusaders swept through the Rhineland in 1096 en route to the Holy Land, they brought destruction to Ashkenazic Jewry, through death or forced conversion. Record of this violence has survived in Latin and Hebrew chronicles as well as in Hebrew dirges. These chronicles have been the subject of intense scrutiny since their publication in 1892. Attention has focused on accounts that in Worms, Mainz, and elsewhere Jews killed their family members and then themselves when the enemy was at the door. The Hebrew sources glorify these acts of self-destruction as the embodiment of the religious ideal of martyrdom, Kiddush Hashem.
AB - As crusaders swept through the Rhineland in 1096 en route to the Holy Land, they brought destruction to Ashkenazic Jewry, through death or forced conversion. Record of this violence has survived in Latin and Hebrew chronicles as well as in Hebrew dirges. These chronicles have been the subject of intense scrutiny since their publication in 1892. Attention has focused on accounts that in Worms, Mainz, and elsewhere Jews killed their family members and then themselves when the enemy was at the door. The Hebrew sources glorify these acts of self-destruction as the embodiment of the religious ideal of martyrdom, Kiddush Hashem.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85012498560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0364009403311006
DO - 10.1017/S0364009403311006
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AN - SCOPUS:85012498560
SN - 0364-0094
VL - 27
SP - 124
EP - 126
JO - AJS Review
JF - AJS Review
IS - 1
ER -
