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Lesson 3 of 8·The Jewish Meaning of Memory

1096–The Crusades and their Aftermath

In 1096, Pope Urban II urged Christians across Europe to go to the Middle East and recapture the Holy Land from Islamic rule. On the way to Jerusalem, Christians perpetrated brutal pogroms against Jewish communities in Germany, in particular against those in Mainz, Speyer, and Worms. In this lecture, Rabbi Schacter tells their story and surveys how Jewish communities have remembered what happened, focusing specifically on the debate over whether to establish a completely new fast day, or to subsume that remembrance into Tisha b’Av.

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Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and senior scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. From 2000 to 2005, he served as dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston, and from 1981 to 2000, he served as…

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