Publisher's description:
For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies.

Table of contents:
Introduction
David Engel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Elliot Wolfson
Guilbert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade
Anna Sapir-Abulafia
Rashi's Choice: The Humash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash
Ivan G. Marcus
The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate
Avraham Grossman
Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Daniel J. Lasker
Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages
Ephraim Kanarfogel
Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists
Gérard Nahon
Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text
David Berger
Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia's Polemic with Christianity
Elliot R. Wolfson
The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306
William Chester Jordan
The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder
Kenneth Stow
From Solomon bar Samson to Solomon ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah
Jeremy Cohen
Salo Baron's View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources
David Engel
Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan
Yechiel Schur