Robert Chazan

Robert Leon Chazan (April 25, 1936 – February 12, 2024) was an American historian who was the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

Life and career
Robert Leon Chazan was born in Albany, New York on April 25, 1936.

According to Andrew Gow writing in Speculum, Chazan is, "a distinguished scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages."

A festschrift published in Chazan's honor and edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffman, Elliot Wolfson, and Yechiel Schur, lists, "the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry," as 4 of the scholarly concerns that have been central to Chazan's work.

Chazan died on February 12, 2024, at the age of 87.

Awards
1988: National Jewish Book Award in Jewish History for European Jewry and the First Crusade