Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
ancestors, medieval Jews, Jewish religious memory, diaspora
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
History
Abstract
Having previously completed a study of religious memory as a motivating factor for Christians to persecute Jews in the High and Late Middle Ages, I felt a strong desire to tell the other side of the story–to analyze the Jewish historical mind-set during these persecution episodes. I have discovered much about the late medieval Jewish mind-set during the course of this research, and my findings appear in much lengthier form in my Honors Thesis “Crucifix and Torah: The Role of Religious Memory in Medieval Christian Persecution of Jews.” I will attempt to briefly reiterate the principal conclusions of my research in this report.
Recommended Citation
Young, John D. and Pixton, Dr. Paul B.
(2013)
"Remembering the Ancestors: A Recreation of the Late Medieval Jewish Diaspora Mentality,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 334.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/334