LEADER 04602nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910787520103321 005 20211217000304.0 010 $a0-8122-0163-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201635 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418305 035 $a(OCoLC)859161074 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748619 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001052017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11703246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001052017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11077041 035 $a(PQKB)11175882 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26845 035 $a(DE-B1597)449015 035 $a(OCoLC)979778660 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442187 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748619 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682353 035 $a(OCoLC)873030400 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442187 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418305 100 $a20060412d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSanctifying the name of God$b[electronic resource] $eJewish martyrs and Jewish memories of the First Crusade /$fJeremy Cohen 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aJewish culture and contexts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51071-7 311 0 $a0-8122-1956-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-199) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations for Primary Sources --$tIntroduction: The Persecutions of 1096 --$tPART I: Problems and Solutions --$tChapter 1 To Sanctify the Name of God --$tChapter 2 The First Crusade and Its Historians --$tChapter 3 Points of Departure --$tPART II: Martyrs of 1096 --$tChapter 4 Last Supper at Xanten --$tChapter 5 Master Isaac the Parnas --$tChapter 6 Mistress Rachel of Mainz --$tChapter 7 Kalonymos in Limbo --$tChapter 8 The Rape of Sarit --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tBibliography of Secondary Sources --$tIndex 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aJews$zGermany$xHistory$y1096-1147 606 $aJews$xPersecutions$zGermany 606 $aCrusades$yFirst, 1096-1099 607 $aGermany$xEthnic relations 610 $aHistory. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xPersecutions 615 0$aCrusades 676 $a943/.004924 700 $aCohen$b Jeremy$f1953-$0674530 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787520103321 996 $aSanctifying the name of God$93697094 997 $aUNINA