Susan L. Einbinder . No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France.(The Middle Ages Series.)Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press . 2009 . Pp. 267. $55.00.
Joseph Shatzmïller
Although medieval Jews were periodically expelled from cities and towns, principalities indeed entire kingdoms, Jewish collective memory retains only the Spanish event of 1492. All others are left to historians deal with. This is particularly true for France, where several banishments occurred twelfth century through end fourteenth century. Recent scholarly productions concerning France consist of, among others, doctorate Céline Balasse entitled 1306: L'expulsion des juifs du royaume de (2008) an M.A. dissertation at University Lyon 2 by Étienne Collet, just sent press, which reveals names hundreds who crossed Savoy border in months that followed decree banishment. The last French expulsions, 1394, was subject international conference convoked Gilbert Dahan whose proceedings published 2004, while 1991 Elisabeth A. R. Brown made public astounding discovery there had been no expulsion 1322, contrary what claimed most books. Susan L. Einbinder works this context wishes find out memories 1306 1394 can be discovered literary those or their descendants.
The American Historical Review