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Robert Chazan: in appreciation and friendship -- Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the problem of Jewish conversion at the time of the First Crusade -- Rashi's choice: the Humash commentary as rewritten Midrash -- The commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian debate -- Were Jews made in the image of god? Christian perspectives and Jewish existence in Medieval Europe -- Jewish knowledge of Christianity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Dreams as a determinant of Jewish law and practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages -- Orality and literacy: the French Tosaphists -- Torah and the Messianic Age: the polemical and exegetical history of a rabbinic text -- Textual flesh, incarnation, and the imaginal body: Abraham Abulafia's polemic with Christianity -- The Jewish cemeteries of France after the expulsion of 1306 -- The cruel Jewish father: from miracle to murder -- From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon ibn Verga: tales and ideas of Jewish martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah -- Salo Baron's view of the Middle Ages in Jewish history: early sources -- Bibliography of the works of Robert Chazan.

Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of medieval Jewry.

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