Home›Sources›Eidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977)SourcesEidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977)Eidelberg, 1977Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Eidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/eidelberg-jews-and-crusaders-1977.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Eidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/eidelberg-jews-and-crusaders-1977Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-eidelberg-shlomo-trans-and-ed-the-jews-a, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Eidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/eidelberg-jews-and-crusaders-1977}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXShlomo Eidelberg's scholarly critical translation, with introduction, of the four surviving medieval Hebrew chronicles of the 1096 Rhineland massacres and the Second Crusade: the Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, the Chronicle of Rabbi Eliezer bar Nathan, the Mainz Anonymous, and Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn's Sefer Zekhirah. These are the only extant Jewish eyewitness accounts of the killings at Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Cologne in May and June 1096, written by members of the affected communities.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (17 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1 1A standard scholarly critical translation of primary medieval sources with an academic introduction, the same standing given to comparable critical editions and peer-reviewed monographs elsewhere in this reference; as a primary chronicle collection it carries the affected communities' own contemporary memory rather than independent modern verification of any figure.NotesWell-attestedA scholarly critical edition and translation of primary medieval chronicles, not a modern historian's independent count: the chronicles themselves carry the affected communities' own memory of the events, written within decades of the killings. Used here as the primary eyewitness record of the Rhineland massacres; no numeric death toll for that phase is asserted, since no modern estimate distinct from later general totals for the whole crusade was found to be comparably grounded. 1CitationAuthorWell-attestedShlomo Eidelberg (translator and editor) 1PublisherWell-attestedUniversity of Wisconsin Press 1Publication YearWell-attested1977 1Source TypeWell-attestedCritical translation with scholarly introduction 1Sources1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Editiontier 1Eidelberg, Shlomo (trans. and ed.), "The Jews and the Crusaders: The Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades" (1977)tier 1Shlomo Eidelberg (translator and editor), University of Wisconsin Press, 1977Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSpread Events, 9 claims: 3 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.Religious Events, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.Religions, 1 claims: 1 holds.Well-attested9Religious EventsThe Rhineland Massacres of 1096Spread EventsCrusaders Massacre the Rhineland's Jewish CommunitiesHolds6ReligionsJudaismSpread EventsCrusaders Massacre the Rhineland's Jewish CommunitiesGeneral References2Religious EventsThe Rhineland Massacres of 1096Spread EventsCrusaders Massacre the Rhineland's Jewish CommunitiesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year