Tag: Medieval Jewry
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Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87
Robert Chazan, a leading scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages, has died at the age of 87.
Dr. Moshe Lavee discusses the Cairo Geniza, a collection of Jewish texts found in Egypt detailing ten centuries of Jewish life, revealing a history often overlooked.