Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History—Festschrift in Honor of Robert Chazan

Chazan has played a major role in Hebrew and Judaic studies in US universities, and colleagues honor him with 13 studies on areas of his particular interest. The topics include Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the problem of Jewish conversion at the time of the First Crusade, the commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian debate, Jewish knowledge of Christianity during the 12th and 13th centuries, dreams as a determinant of Jewish law and practice in northern Europe during the high middle ages, the Jewish cemeteries of France after the expulsion of 1306, and tales and ideas of Jewish martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David Engel is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust (Stanford, 2010).Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irving A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among his books are Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994), From Text to Tradition (1989), and Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1983). Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in New York University. He has published extensively on Jewish philosophy and mysticism, including Through the Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994), Language, Eros, and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and the Poetic Imagination (2005), Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009), and, most recently, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011).