Robert Chazan
Scheuer Professor of Jewish History
New York University

Robert Chazan has served as Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University for the past three decades. Previously he taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Ohio State University, and the City University of New York. His graduate degrees are from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University. The focus of Prof. Chazan’s research has been the history of the Jews in medieval western Christendom. His most recent books include: The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism (Cambridge University, 2016).

He has been active in administrative efforts as well, serving as chair of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University, as chair of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, as chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, as president of the Association for Jewish Studies, and as president of the American Academy of Jewish Research. His is a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and of the Medieval Academy of America.

Selected Publications

God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First-Crusade Narratives (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000)

Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

(with John Friedman and Jean Hoff). The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012)

From Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism: Ancient and Medieval Christian Constructions of Jewish History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016)